India updated its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) - What is it all about?

Recently, we have seen a lot of posts mentioning “Cabinet approves India’s Updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to be communicated to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)”.

Let us understand what is this #NDCs. What is #UNFCCC? Why does #India need to communicate its NDCs to UNFCCC?

I am sure, many of us must have seen the update on NDCs, but quite not sure about the answers to the above questions. To be frank, I was not clear, until I complete this post.

What are NDCs?

Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are at the heart of the Paris Agreement and the achievement of these long-term goals. NDCs embody efforts by each country to reduce national emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. The Paris Agreement (Article 4, paragraph 2) requires each Party to prepare, communicate and maintain successive nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that it intends to achieve.

Now we come across a new terminology, Paris Agreement. So let us understand this, even though many of us know.

What is Paris Agreement?

To tackle climate change and its negative impacts, world leaders at the?UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris?reached a breakthrough on 12 December 2015: the historic?Paris Agreement.

The Agreement sets long-term goals to guide all nations:

• substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature increase in this century to 2 degrees Celsius while pursuing efforts to limit the increase even further to 1.5 degrees;
• review countries’ commitments every five years;
• provide financing to developing countries to mitigate climate change, strengthen resilience and enhance abilities to adapt to climate impacts.

The Agreement is a legally binding international treaty. It entered into force on 4 November 2016. Today,?193?Parties?(192?countries plus the European Union) have joined the Paris Agreement.

What is UNFCCC? Why does India need to communicate its NDCs to UNFCCC?

The UNFCCC entered into force on 21 March 1994. Today, it has near-universal membership. The 197 countries that have ratified the Convention are called Parties to the Convention. Preventing “dangerous” human interference with the climate system is the ultimate aim of the UNFCCC.

As a party to Paris Agreement, India is to fulfill its obligation to update its targets and actions to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to UNFCCC, hence the country developed its NDCs, which recently got approved in the cabinet.

Do share your views and further inputs related to NDCs.

You can further read about the Govt. of India's release of NDCs from this link - https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1847812

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