in comparison, the USA is also increasing its usage
Posted on 11/05/2021 5:44:32 AM PDT by Cronos
India has promised to cut its emissions to net zero by 2070 - missing a key goal of the COP26 summit for countries to commit to reach that target by 2050.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the pledge, the first time India has set a net zero target, at the Glasgow summit.
Net zero, or becoming carbon neutral, means not adding to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
China has announced plans for carbon neutrality by 2060, while the US and EU aim to hit net zero by 2050.
...t its huge population means its emissions per capita are much lower than other major world economies. India emitted 1.9 tonnes of CO2 per head of population in 2019, compared with 15.5 tonnes for the US and 12.5 tonnes for Russia that year.
Mr Modi made the pledge as one of five commitments from his country.
They include a promise for India to get 50% of its energy from renewable resources by 2030, and by the same year to reduce total projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes.
...India had "clearly put the ball in the court of the developed world" by announcing 500 gigawatts (GW) of non-fossil electricity capacity, half of energy from renewables, a reduction of emissions by one billion tonnes and emissions intensity of the GDP by 45% by 2030, according to Arunabha Ghosh, Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, a leading climate think tank.
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What will happen to the fatted cow?
Hey Dondi. THERE is NO SUCH THING!
in comparison, the USA is also increasing its usage
Modi: “You won’t see much progress for the the next 40 years, but those last five years are really going to be something!”
50 years from now, Scoldilocks will not be pleased.
No problem. I won’t be emitting any carbon by 2070. So there!
LOL!
Only Biden or a complete moron would believe this.
50 years out? Ha ha. And we thought Congress, with its 24-month terms, was bad passing 10-year budgets.
India sure has sun!
Personally, I promise to be ‘carbon neutral’ by 2070, also. At 109 YoA, I don’t expect to be inhaling air and exhaling C02 then.
Will they stop burning dung?
Okay doky then…
A quarter of a billion Indians live in homes with no electricity. When they need heat, the most common source is a charcoal brazier (or similar device). Millions of small businesses also heat with a charcoal brazier because like most of India's buildings, theirs was built was built before the British left in 1947.
But what they burn in those braziers isn't necessarily charcoal.
The "cakes" in the photo are made from dried water buffalo dung. India has thousands of farms that keep water buffalo for their milk and as beasts of burden. And buffalo poo is a fungible commodity so they gather it up, dry it out and sell it at roadside stands.
Simply converting their power plants to a source that doesn't use fossil fuels won't make India "carbon-neutral," and unless and until both India and COMMUNIST China curtail their CO2 emissions, the rest of the planet needn't bother trying.
By the end of 2027, production of 2 and 3 wheeled vehicles will be forced to go electric. The next 5 years from now will be needed to set up the charging infra and make enough batteries. The existing vehicles will be set a scrap-by date that will force them to be used only in remote areas with poor charging infra.
The cow patties are being replaced by LPG connections though the Chinese Virus and subsequent rise in energy prices are undoing that progress. The cow patties will be used as organic fertiliser.
BTW, in India the 3 wheeled taxis are call auto-rickshaws, not tuk-tuks :)
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