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‘India Climate Change Knowledge Portal’
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- The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar virtually launched this portal.
- The portal will hold major information about the steps taken by the government at both National and international levels to address climate change issues.
- India is the only G20 country that is on track to meet the 2015 Paris agreement.
- India has successfully achieved its voluntary target of reducing the emission intensity of GDP by 21 percent over 2005 levels, by the year 2020.
- India is also poised on achieving a 35% reduction well before the target year 2030.
- The following are the three national determined contributions of India
- To reduce emission intensity of GDP by about one-third by 2030
- To achieve 40% of installed capacity of electricity from non-fossil fuel sources
- To achieve additional carbon sink of 2.5 billion to 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent forest cover for tree cover by 2030.
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