We need innovative, scientific and urgent steps to secure our Planet for future generations. India’s announcement at COP26 to reach Net Zero by 2070, is a great step considering that our country is not the cause for Climate Change and has not been a historic contributor to greenhouse emissions, says Shri Bhupender Yadav Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change and Labour & Employment, Government of India in his message for the book The Road to Net Zero by Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry. To read full message and other articles by leading industry minds.

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SHRI BHUPENDER YADAV
Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change and
Labour & Employment, Government of India
he science of climate change particularly the recent IPCC report
has established that our Planet has already crossed one degree
centigrade heating from the pre-industrial period. If the world
continues to move on the current path, we will face at least three
degrees of global heating by the end of the century. Therefore
we need to act decisively now to achieve Net Zero emissions and
arrest any additional temperature.
Our honorable prime minister Narendra Modiji has launched the One World

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One Grid initiative during COP26 to ensure availability of clean energy from a
worldwide grid everywhere at all times.
Building on this, our prime minister announced India’s contribution to
enhanced climate commitments Panchamrit including our commitment to
reach Net Zero by 2070.
generations. India’s announcement at COP26 to reach Net Zero by 2070, is a
great step considering that our country is not the cause for climate change and
has not been a historic contributor to greenhouse emissions.
Having said that, India as a responsible global power realises that only collective
global action can combat climate change and its challenges.
India has already been pursuing a gradual transition to ‘Net Zero’ while striking
a balance between ecology, economic development and sustainability.
Private sector plays an important role in our journey towards Net Zero. I
appeal to Bombay Chamber that your actions, resources, capacity to innovate
and greater reach are vital to swiftly decarbonise sectors, infrastructure, value
chains and the products and services they provide. Private sector players are
pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions last year.
Higher capital is expected to be diverted to companies at the forefront of the
Indian cement industry has already achieved one of the biggest low carbon
milestones across the world.
There has been a greater synergy of India’s climate policy with the action and
commitment of its private sector. We must ensure that sustainable lifestyle and
climate justice are at the core of this journey.
I am hopeful that with active cooperation from the private sector, India will be
able to reduce our carbon emissions and achieve the Net Zero target.
Let’s remember that we have not inherited this Planet from our ancestors, but
instead we have borrowed it from our children and hence must leave it green
and clean.