: With or without a net-zero deadline, India will have to make these policy changes to cut emissions #IndiaNEWS As important as net-zero deadlines are the pathways countries adopt to get there, reports

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With or without a net-zero deadline, India will have to make these policy changes to cut emissions #IndiaNEWS
As important as net-zero deadlines are the pathways countries adopt to get there, reports prepared ahead of the COP26 climate summit and experts tracking the event say. India must decarbonise its economy at a faster clip than it is doing currently, and this will include a massive overhaul of the existing energy systems as well as industrial and agricultural sectors.India is one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, but has low per capita emissions and has historically not been a major emitter. It has not yet announced a deadline for net-zero emissions but is under pressure to do so at the 26th Conference of Parties on Climate Change, the multicountry dialogue that gets underways on November 1.It would be meaningless if a country sets a date for net-zero and is able to achieve it, but overshoots its carbon budget in reaching that target, said Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Utkarsh Patel in a paper published in September by the Delhi-based Centre for Social and Economic Progress. Instead, world leaders should agree on “carbon budgets for each country� and “focus on ensuring that each country adopts an emissions trajectory that keeps its cumulative emissions within its respective carbon budget�.A net-zero announcement can, however, set the policy agenda for emissions...Read more

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