New Delhi, March 27 -- It's been a while coming, but India finally updated its climate change mitigation objectives on 25 March. These are India's NDCs or nationally determined contributions, under the 2015 Paris Agreement. The objectives, which will govern the period from 2031-2035 are more ambitious than the current NDC (till 2030), and revolve around three key pledges.

The first is to reduce India's emissions intensity to 47% by 2035, the second is to ensure that 60% of the country's total electricity generation capacity comes from non-fossil fuel sources, and the third is to create a carbon sink (through fresh tree cover and plantations) that is equivalent to 3.5-4 billion tonnes of CO2.

This marks an increase in India's climate amb...