Climate action plan: India likely to skip February 10 deadline

INDIA WILL LIKELY skip the February 10 deadline for submitting the next round of climate action plans required under the Paris Agreement and may not significantly upgrade its targets, it has been learnt.

- AMITABH SINHA

These plans, called Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs, are supposed to provide details of the climate action countries intend to take up to 2035.

The Paris Agreement requires its member countries to refresh their NDCs in five-year cycles. The existing NDCs, submitted in 2020, pertain to the period up to 2030. The Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee, after a meeting last year, decided to ask countries to submit their 2035 NDCs by February 10, about nine months ahead of the year-ending annual climate conference.

India, however, is not ready with its 2035 action plan—and in no hurry to meet the deadline.