India’s Delayed Climate Plan Sets Weak New Emissions Goal

India set a modest target to cut a key emissions metric 47% by 2035, as the world’s third-largest polluter attempts to balance growing energy demand and action on global warming.

A new goal to reduce emissions intensity — the amount of pollution generated per unit of gross domestic product — is calculated against a baseline year of 2005, and makes only an incremental advance on the nation’s prior commitments. India set an earlier pledge in 2022 to cut the metric 45% below the same level by 2030.