21 Nov Climate Change Compensation

Climate Change Compensation

Relevance for Prelims: Emissions Gap report, Climate Change Compensation

Relevance for Mains: Net Zero, Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Context: In a historical move, U.N climate summit in Egypt (COP-27) has created Compensation Fund to address “Loss and Damage’ due to climate change-induced disasters.

Significance of Compensation:

Data from Global Carbon Project shows that between 1751 and 2017, 47% of the carbon-dioxide emissions came from the 28 countries (27 European Countries and United States).

The aforementioned data suggests it is the developed countries have benefitted from Industrial development which has increased the Emission of Greenhouse Gases.

Pic: Global Carbon Project

India’s Emissions:

India is one of the top 7 emitters (others being China, Indonesia, Brazil, Russian Federation, United States, EU-27). Collectively, G-20 members are responsible for 75% of global GHG Emissions.

The average per capita GHG emissions of India stand at 2.4 tonnes of CO2 (carbon dioxide) which is way below that United States (14 tonnes), Russia (13), and China (9.7).

India’s renewable Target:

• The installed renewable energy capacity has been growing rapidly in the last few years and enhancement of its target from 450GW to 500GW.
• The government has pledged to increase the proportion of non-fossil fuel energy to 50% by 2030.
• India also has said it does not plan to start any coal power plant after 2022. Recently, India has achieved 5^th rank globally in solar power deployment surpassing Italy.
• India with a total installed capacity of 39.25GW has the highest fourth wind installed capacity in the world.

Significance of Non-conventional sources of Energy

• Thrust on non-conventional sources of energy can fetch economic gains to India. Shift towards non-conventional sources of energy can bring down the cost of energy supply and can also ensure enhanced energy delivery of affordable clean energy that is accessible to all.
• Apart from environmental aspects. The economic benefits are also significant. The transition to renewable energy sources will aid the Indian economy to delink itself from volatile international oil prices.
• India could also handhold other developing nations to explore the path of sustainable development by making the best utilization of non-conventional sources of energy.

Facilitation of transition to non-conventional energy sources holds the key for India’s developmental aspirations. To facilitate a smooth and sustainable transition to non-conventional sources of energy, the mobilization of green finance needs to be adopted at a faster pace.

It is also important to further escalate research and developmental spending on the domain of clean energy sources, so as to come up with sophisticated enabling technologies.

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Source:

                   1. DW

                   2. The Economic Times

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