New Delhi, March 27 -- India has reset its closer-term climate goals on its way to net-zero emissions by 2070. It now plans to raise the share of non-fossil fuel energy to 60% by 2035, as against 50% by 2030 planned earlier.

The country also plans to increase its carbon sink, or its capacity to absorb emissions, to 3.5-4 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2035, a target upped from 2.5-3 billion tonnes by 2030.

A key measure is the emissions intensity of India's GDP-the amount of greenhouse gases produced per unit of economic output. The new aim is a reduction by 47% by 2035 from its 2005 level. The earlier target was a 45% drop from the same baseline by 2030.

This sounds like a modest change for the five more years it's expected to ta...