India submitted its effective performance in COP27 in reducing climate crisis

Countries have started to do their bit in reducing climate crisis by following a roadmap prepared by United Nation. As per the information, climate conference is about to take place in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt this month. Leaders from different nations will join each other at this summit for discussing better solutions and their contributions in balancing environmental crisis. Available information suggests that speakers like Boris Johnson, Nicola Sturgeon, Yasmine Fouad, Ngozi OkonjoIweala, Simon Stiell and Farhana Yamin will attend alongside others. It’ll be three days event.

Meet will be all about exploring new strategies and submitting report of last year goals in overcoming the climate change. N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Parliament member of Nalgonda beside other two MPs will represent Indian Parliament at UN Climate Summit (COP27). ‘It would focus on developing greater resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change to focus on challenges in the energy and climate policies that can be addressed through regional collaboration’, says The Hindu report. COP27 will also focus on cross border energy cooperation and sustainable development. At the minimum, 2 parliamentarians have been invited from each Asian country that is India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan. The center of discussion would be to limit earth’s temperature till 1.5 Celsius by the end of this century.

Santosh Gupta works closely with environment department of Indian administration and is affirmative with India’s efforts and determination to finish annual goals in reforming current climate situation. He said, ‘India has represented its attempt in controlling climate change multiple times globally. In last few years, climate crisis has become nation’s priority and has introduced various measures in this area.’ He further added that India is steadily moving forward in promoting sustainable development and soon will achieve its aim within the set period. According to the emission gap report 2022 of UN environment programme, countries have to shift their dependency from 62 to 92 per cent on those energy resources that do not emit carbon gas by 2030.

‘If you look at the statistics, India is 50 per cent dependent on coal for electricity supply, and rest on water, air, oil, natural gas, renewable energy, nuclear energy. Now we have to cut down our uncontrolled dependency on coal and we are on it. India has a tough role to play because with our number of population, adjusting becomes challenging. But we are coming with innovative ideas that can act as alternatives in such situation’, said Santosh. 18 hundred million tonnes carbon di oxide gets release every year due to food management at world level. And it is only one third of the total emitted carbon gases on earth. The process of farming releases 7 hundred million tonnes carbon di oxide, which has to be reduced to 5 hundred million tonnes, according to UN report.

Santosh told EAT news, farming and agriculture is a primary source of income in India and so bringing change in that process is a must. ‘Since farming is a long process and requires time, skill and hard work alongside knowledge of chemicals and organics, it is very important for the administration to educate farmers and introduce carbon free farming and cut down agriculture emissions. This is the reason that we have drafted this policy last year in COP26’, he said. Union Cabinet Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav in his statement cleared that India has already achieved its goal set in COP26 before the deadline and manifested the urgency around this issue through our actions but developed countries should be held accountable on their part. India is operating effectively to reach to its objective than other countries, comparatively.

What are the other suggested substitutes, people can practice on ground level to which Santosh recommended to avoid four wheelers. He described, ‘Choose public transport, bicycles or to walk over other vehicles. Bicycles are the best option for people of every age and it helps both the ways. It is advised that by 2030, average of per thousand people having bicycles will increase five times. We are planning to promote additional services of bicycles wherever we can. Making it available at every metro station and other places, we are considering it as a successful drive.’ Appeared information says, share of light electronics vehicles was 8 per cent in 2021 which need to be increased by 2030 from 35 to 95 per cent.

Santosh believes India is doing incredibly brilliant in working towards its responsibilities and is ready to submit its measures in COP27. ‘India is the only country that has worked in reaching an end to its mission within a year and is prepared to present specific measures it launched for it. This conference is an important one for each country as we are all in this together. Prioritizing climate crisis at global level is a needed action and nations should take it seriously’, he said. Countries pledging to work in reducing climate crisis are an encouraging sight for everybody.