Global Warming and India’s approach to tackle climate change

Global warming and India's approach to tackle climate change 

India is one of top five largest contributors of Global Warming. But India has taken various to reduce it in accordance with Paris Summit 2015. Paris summit talks about maintaining the average Global temperature below 2-degree Celsius. On the sidelines of this Summit, India and France came forward to create International Solar Alliance(ISA) which works towards achieving the sustainable source of energy i.e Renewable energy.

There are various reasons behind increasing Global Warming. One of them is increasing industrialisation in developing countries like India. This is due to increasing population which requires food, clothing. Shelter and many other amenities. These can be fulfilled by increasing per capita income which requires boosting of the manufacturing sector. Ultimately results in increasing Global Warming.

The government has taken several initiatives tackle fast changing climatic conditions which pose threat to environmental sustainability. India has committed 175GW renewable energy target by 2022 of which 100 GW from solar power. Till now, India has achieved 20GW solar power which is the target of previous Jawahar Solar Mission. E- Mobility is another initiative towards adopting Electric vehicles in public transport by 2030. This is done to reduce air pollution and dependence on crude oil import. 

Reducing climate venerabilities along with Economic growth is a herculean task but continuous and holistic approach can meet both targets in long run. It is the need for the hour to be committed towards sustainable use of the scarce resource by balancing both growth and climate change.