India's domestic climate roadmap — and its promises to the rest of the world.
Launched in 2008, the NAPCC outlines eight National Missions covering solar energy, enhanced energy efficiency, sustainable habitat, water, sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem, a "Green India," sustainable agriculture, and strategic knowledge for climate change. States prepare their own State Action Plans on Climate Change (SAPCC) aligned with the NAPCC.
Under the Paris Agreement, India submits Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). At COP26 (2021, Glasgow), India announced its "Panchamrit" targets, including reaching 500 GW of non-fossil energy capacity by 2030 and achieving Net Zero emissions by 2070 — a later target date than most developed nations, reflecting India's development needs and lower historical/per-capita emissions.
India is developing a domestic Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) under the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2022, to create a market-based mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, alongside the pre-existing Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme for energy efficiency in industry.
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