“The solar alliance will be a very effective means of enhancing the deployment of solar energy in most solar resource rich countries of the world”, Mathur who is also the director general of Bureau of Energy Efficiency said. “This is an alliance that brings together developed and developed countries”.
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“The dream of universal access to clean energy is becoming more real”, Mr Modi said at the climate change summit in Paris on Monday. Yet, there is merit to Mr Modi’s argument, and success in the ongoing Paris climate-change talks requires that all countries recognise it.
France and India are members of the new group, which includes African, Asian, Middle eastern, American, European and island countries which lie between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. India’s emissions projections are based on a yearly 8.6% growth rate (pdf, p.27) and India is set to become the world’s biggest source of coal demand growth, according to the International Energy Agency.
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change also opened a pavilion at the Paris Climate change conference which was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi.
The launch of the International Solar Alliance shows the flexibility and cooperation needed at the negotiations to achieve a strong agreement to reduce global warming pollution.
The agreement at the summit “must lead us to restore the balance between humanity and Nature and between what we have inherited and what we will leave behind”, he said. Let’s meet in the middle.
Contending that “enough fighting” has already taken place even between regions, he said he has a proposal to put in place a scheme “Ek Bharat, Shresht Bharat” to strengthen the unity of the country.
NRDC’s full statement is available here.
Climate change and environmental degradation are no longer abstract considerations for the future; melting ice-caps on the Arctic, melting glaciers in the Himalayas and record-breaking flooding over the past month in the southern Indian city of Chennai and surrounding areas have brought home the immediacy of the looming disaster of climate change.
India’s national plan focuses on solar, saying it is expected to grow significantly.
French President Francois Hollande (L) and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the launching of the International Solar Alliance on the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015. With the role India is playing at various levels in the world economy, particularly with important developed nations, India’s stand, though could be seen as too rigid, will find silent backers. China has pledged to cap its carbon emissions within 15 years, primarily through transitioning to solar and wind energy to power its development.
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Energy experts expressed the view that the solar alliance has the potential to establish business innovations in climate change. “Moreover, models such as solar parks are also de-risking a lot of the projects because land and evacuation is granted”.
