The 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or the COP28, is being held in Dubai from November 30 to December 12. At this critical juncture, Bhupinder Singh Bhalla, secretary, ministry of new & renewable energy, and Ajay Mathur, director general, International Solar Alliance, discussed what India—having set some challenging renewable energy targets for itself—brings to the global table.
THE BOLD TARGETS
We have said that we would like2030 from non-fossil fuels. The second commitment we have made is that the energy intensity of the economy would reduce by 45 per cent vis-a-vis the 2005 level by 2030. Apart from that, we’ve also announced that we would like to be energy independent by 2047 and we would like to achieve net zero emissions by 2070. So, these are the larger goals which kind of drive how we in the renewable energy sector function…. Currently, we have a non-fossil capacity of 186 GW installed in the country as on October this year. Our target is, and our honourable prime minister has also announced, to achieve 500 GW of renewable energy, of non-fossil capacity, in the country by 2030.
