KEY ELEMENTS AND RELATED ISSUES OF INTENDED NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS OF INDIA TOWARDS CLIMATE CHANGE

The Earth Summit 1992 resulted into five documents, Rio Declaration on Environment Development, Forest Principles, Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Agenda 21. Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) is a term used under the UNFCCC for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and the signatory countries were asked to publicly outline what post-2020 climate actions they intend to take under the new international agreement, known as their INDCs. The INDCs are aimed to determine whether the world achieves an ambitious 2015 agreement and lead basically on agricultural produce income, which at times becomes meager and uncertain due to climate change and natural calamities. The country also has largest population of cattle and buffalo, which faces multiple challenges like outbreak of diseases, inadequate supply of fodder at times, etc. Following the decision of UNFCCC, the country has, therefore, submitted its INDCs on INDCs have been discussed in this article.