Emissions need to be reduced to achieve net zero by 2050: Minister Yadav

According to the minister, the IPCC AR 6 report re-emphasizes development as the first defense against climate change. The report reinforces the scientific view that carbon is the primary greenhouse gas that needs to be reduced significantly to achieve the global temperature target agreed in the Paris Agreement.

Since the advent of the Industrial Revolution, there have been highly disproportionate emissions of greenhouse gases to achieve economic growth and development. Excessive exploitation of natural resources has also resulted in widespread environmental degradation. This has come at the cost of changing the balance of nature, posing a grave threat to the earth.

“To save our planet from the challenges of climate change, pollution and loss of biodiversity, we need collective action guided by the founding principles of the Rio conventions,” the minister said. “We have collectively made some progress through the process of UNFCCC, CBD, UNCCD. However, more action is urgently needed to address the three challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.”

Yadav said the increase in emissions would give countries like India the space to achieve the development needed for its people, which would provide the necessary defense against the effects of climate change, environmental degradation and pollution.

The Environment Minister said that developing countries also need the means of implementation, finance and technology, and he hoped that developed countries would commit to finance to combat climate change and to tackle environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. will provide the same.

Yadav said, “Reaching out to targets on carbon neutrality and increased ambition will not take off unless they are made keeping in mind equity and CBDR-RC and also unless developed countries have the means to implement it.” do not fulfill their commitments,” Yadav said.

The minister said, “Our actions so far have focused on creating a policy framework to tackle climate change. It is time that governments across the world focus on making this a participatory process at the level of individuals.

Individual actions have the potential for revolution. He noted that the importance of sustainable lifestyles and sustainable patterns of consumption and production to combat climate change was underlined at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh.

Urging all the countries around the table, the Minister said to set an example for the world in the collective fight against climate change, environmental degradation and pollution by focusing on individual behavior in the spirit of Mission LiFE and Lifestyle for Change in the Environment (LiFE).