India, April 27 -- India has committed to achieving about 60% cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2035, with the help of the technology transfer and low-cost international finance, as it submitted its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for 2031-35. It pledged to reduce the intensity of its GDP emissions by 47% by 2035, from the 2005 level, and create a carbon sink of 3.5 to 4 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through forest and tree cover by 2035, as compared to the baseline year of 2005.

NDCs are non-binding, voluntary climate action plans that countries submit every five years under the Paris Agreement to reduce gree...