India chalksout roadmap to achieve low-carbon growth

New Delhi, Jan 20 (PTI) As the January 31 deadline to
submit its emission targets under the Copenhagen Accord
approaches, India Wednesday kicked-off the process to chalkout
a roadmap and analyse cost to achieve low-carbon growth.

"We will identify various options and scope available to
reduce energy use in major carbon emission sectors such as
steel, power and agriculture," economist Kirit Parikh, head of
the expert group on strategies for low carbon development told
reporters here after its first meeting.
The Group was constituted by the Planning Commission to
achieve 20-25 per cent reduction in emission intensity by 2010
on 2005 levels as was announced by Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh last year at Copenhagen climate meet.
Contradictory to the government's claim that it does not
need any international fund to meet the emission reduction
targets, one of the main mandate of the Group is to make cost
benefit analysis for the money to be required for mitigation
and adaption to tackle climate change.
The committee will do a detailed analysis to find out
whether or not it was possible to reach to that (announced)
target without additional money," Parikh said.
"The Committee will also calculate what additional can we
do if we get additional amount," he added.
However, when asked if India had been haste in offering
targets at Copenhagen without analysing cost it would incur,
Parikh said, "the number (20-25 per cent) was based on the
various studies made in the past and now we have to chalkout a
roadmap and identify the additional cost if there are." (MORE)
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