Lok Sabha Question No. 3877 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-24
Subject: NDC Targets
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3877

TO BE ANSWERED ON 24.03.2025

## NDC Targets

## 3877.   DR. KAKOLI GHOSH DASTIDAR:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether India's Fourth Biennial Update Report (BUR-4) submitted to the UNFCCC, indicates  significant  progress  towards  meeting  each  of  the  country's  First  Updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets set for 2030 and if so, the specific details of progress achieved against each target;
- (b) whether current projections suggest that India is likely to exceed its 2030 NDC targets, thereby strengthening its position as a global leader in climate action and if so, the details of such projections;
- (c) whether,  in  light  of  India's  progress  on  climate  commitments,  the  Government  is considering a revision of its Second NDC targets for 2025 to demonstrate enhanced ambition  and  encourage  both  developed  and  developing  nations  to  strengthen  their climate actions in alignment with the goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 degree Celsius; and
- (d) if so, the details of proposed revisions and expected impact on global climate action?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH)

(a) and (b) The Government of India stands committed to combat impacts of climate change and  it  has  launched  many  schemes  and  programs  to  scale  up  India's  action  on  both,  the adaptation  and  mitigation.  Appropriate  measures  are  being  taken  under  these  schemes  and programs  across  many  sectors  including  water,  agriculture,  forest,  energy  and  enterprise, sustainable  mobility  and  housing,  waste  management,  circular  economy,  and  resource efficiency,  etc.    As  a  result  of  the  aforesaid  measures,  India  has  progressively  continued decoupling of economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

India's  4 th   Biennial  Update  Report  (BUR-4),  submitted  to  the  United  Nations  Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 30 th  December 2024, does not provide for future projections on India's updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). As per BUR-4, between 2005 and 2020, India's emission intensity of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reduced by 36% as against the NDC target of 45%.  During 2005 to 2021, additional carbon sink of 2.29 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent has been created. By October 2024, the share of nonfossil sources in the installed electricity generation capacity was 46.52%. As such, India is on track to achieve the targets conveyed under its NDC.

(c) and (d) As nationally determined contributions to the global response to climate change, all Parties to the Paris Agreement are required to undertake and communicate ambitious efforts as provided in Paris Agreement and in a nationally determined manner with the view to achieve the purpose of the Agreement. The decision on common time frame for submission of NDC to UNFCC encourages Parties to communicate in 2025 the NDC with an end date of 2035, in 2030  the  NDC  with  an  end  date  of  2040,  and  so  forth  every  five  years  thereafter.  The Government stands committed to fulfil its obligations under Paris Agreement.

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