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Pradeep Kumar

05/06/21 11:00 AM IST

COP26 Global Warming

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The world is facing two momentous challenges: COVID-19 and climate change, both need us to come together globally to find a way forward. 

India's response
  • India has a strong record on tackling climate change, including impressive domestic targets to have 450GW of renewable energy by 2030, and establishing the International Solar Alliance and the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI).
  • India played a critical role in delivering the landmark Paris Agreement and we are working just as closely with India in the run-up to COP26.
  • Emissions have to be cut In terms of limiting warming, every fraction of a degree makes a difference. An average global temperature rise of 2°C, compared to 1.5°C, would see hundreds of millions more people affected.
  • The Climate Action Tracker estimates that countries’ current emissions reduction targets have us on course for average temperature rises of 2.4°C. To limit warming to 1.5°C, we must halve global emissions by 2030. So this is the decisive decade.
26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties
  • The 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to the UNFCCC was originally scheduled to take place from 9-19 November 2020, in Glasgow, UK.
  • It was changed to be hosted by the United Kingdom in Glasgow from November 1 12 2021 Last month.
Source: The Hindu

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