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When Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered \u2018Panchamrit\u2019 to the world leaders gathered at Glasgow for the 26th<\/sup>\u00a0edition of the Conference of Parties (COP26) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, it was clear that India had thrown a gauntlet at the rich nations. India gave One Word or campaign \u2018LIFE\u2019 to become the basic foundation of One World- Lifestyle For Environment.<\/p>\n The five nectar elements, \u2018Panchamrit\u2019, to deal with this challenge are that by 2030 India will take its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW, meet 50 percent of its energy requirements from renewable energy, reduce the total projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes, reduce the carbon intensity of its economy by less than 45 percent and lastly by the year 2070, India is poised to achieve the target of Net Zero emissions.<\/p>\n India\u2019s campaign is an opportunity for mankind to mend its exploitative approach towards the environment to save the planet.\u00a0Climate change has resulted in extreme weather taking a heavy toll on life. All the world needs is emission cuts.\u00a0 At present there is a trust deficit between the developed and developing nations because rich nations have been blaming the poor for environmental degradation.<\/p>\n The fact is that a country like India\u00a0despite having the world’s 17\u00a0per cent population, accounts for only five percent of emissions. China, the US and European Union nations emit over 50 per cent of the world\u2019s 36.44 giga tonnes of carbon dioxide. China alone\u00a0accounts for more than 25 per cent of global emissions. The US, with only a fourth of India\u2019s population, emits twice as much.\u00a0 Fundamentally all human beings are equal and it is the per capita carbon footprints that must matter meaning thereby that rich nations would have to cut down their emissions proportionately for the sake of sharing responsibility on equitable terms.\u00a0 By just blaming poor nations and not coming out with solutions, rich are just causing delays at the cost of rising temperatures. The roadmap to net zero emissions is inclusive green technology transfer for the new economy and liberal funding.<\/p>\n The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of United Nations has also put forth the\u00a0argument in its report, \u201cLimiting global warming to 1.5\u00b0C rather than 2\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels would make it markedly easier to achieve many aspects of sustainable development, with greater potential to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities.\u201d The IPCC report has suggested drastic reductions in coal, gas and oil for energy, reducing the carbon intensity of electricity generation, and increasing the share of renewable sources to nearly 70 per cent.<\/p>\n It is heartening that\u00a0world\u2019s two most polluting countries, the US and China, have now announced to work in tandem by forming a working group for \u201cenhanced climate actions\u201d to check the earth’s environment from further deterioration.\u00a0 The new doctrine of cooperation gives a glimmer of hope to humanity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered \u2018Panchamrit\u2019 to the world leaders gathered at Glasgow for the 26th\u00a0edition of the Conference of Parties (COP26) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, it was clear that India had thrown a gauntlet at the rich nations. India gave One Word or campaign \u2018LIFE\u2019 to become the basic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":334681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[214,23,2205],"tags":[14791,1277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334682,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334679\/revisions\/334682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/334681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}