NEW DELHI, INDIA (Smart Cities News): India’s new Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, said the nation’s energy goals must equal to other sustainable development goals (SDGs).
According to the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) statement, at the launch of a book, The Next Stop: Natural Gas and India’s Journey to a Clean Energy Future. “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will succeed, including on energy, because India will succeed. And India needs to succeed for the SDGs to move forward,” said Shri Hardeep Singh Puri.
According to the government statement, India is the only major economy to keep global warming below two °C of pre-industrial levels. In addition, India plans to reduce its carbon footprint by 33-35% from its 2005 levels by 2030 due to its commitments to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted by 195 countries in Paris in 2015.
Because of the “Sui Generis” nature of the Indian challenge, its goals on energy must equal to other SDGs such as the dignity of girl child or inclusive cities, among others,” said Shri Hardeep Singh Puri in a statement.
According to NITI Aayog’s statement sustainable development goals (SDG) 2020-21 report, while one in three in the labour force is a woman, only 19 among 100 managerial roles have women, and less than nine women in 100 persons make it to legislative assemblies.
During the event, our Ex- Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, said that the importance of LPG and the success of the Ujjwala scheme had brought significant benefits to the lives of ordinary citizens, especially for women’s and children’s, economic empowerment, and a healthy environment.
India is working on a raft of measures including clean electricity, ethanol blending with fossil fuels, green mobility, battery storage and green hydrogen to help reduce pollution and facilitate commitments made at COP-21, the UN Climate Change Conference held in France in 2015.
India has also called out nations on their carbon neutral intent announcements. It has termed such announcements’ empty’ given that the developed world has already occupied about 67% to 75% of carbon space. It assumes the significance of a run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November 2021.