Environment and ecology
National Designated Authority (NDA)
▪ The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has announced a National Designated Authority (NDA), a mandatory requirement under the provisions of the 2015 Paris Agreement, to enable a carbon emissions trading regime.
▪ Within the Paris Agreement, a section called Article 6 defines the contours under which such an emis-sions trading regime or a market can take shape.
▪ A long-standing bone of con-tention among countries, Article 6 was finally passed at the 29th
edition of the cli-mate COP in Baku, Azer-baijan in November 2024.
India’s NDC commitment:
▪ reducing its GDP’s emis-sion intensity by 45% by 2030 from 2005 levels
▪ achieving 50% electric power capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030
▪ creating an additional carbon sink equivalent to 2.5-3 billion tonnes of car-bon dioxide by 2030 through afforestation.
