Atomic Energy India's Net Zero Plan
India and Indians are all set to move forward with the hybridization of atomic energy and renewable energy with the currently used fossil form of "e". Let's dive straight and into some depth.
How is India going to achieve such a goal i.e. becoming zero carbon emitting country by 2070 aka Carbon Neutral?
Well starting from the start and taking one step at a time, which is our ages-old custom to achieve the impossible, For example, ISRO and different "Yana" are all part of case study to it. By the way
the first step to that is, maximizing the use of electric vehicles, starting from the two most important sectors in the Indian economy and society, the Railways and the Military with early targets of around 30-35% to 2025 and the remaining till 2030, starting from the personal / transport vehicles in these departments to later complete shifts on electric driven machines
* Note:- There are still 5000 diesel engines still in use in the Indian Railways, according to the data by the Indian railways
With the increase in ethanol blending to 20% by 2025 (which is currently 10%)
With improvisation towards public transport for passengers and freight traffic
By focusing on energy efficiency defined under the Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme
And so many other things in "stack-queue" like "National Hydrogen Mission"
So what do we have and what do we need ?
Well, India's forest and tree cover is a net carbon sink absorbing 15% of carbon dioxide emissions in 2016 (as per the article by The Hindu 15/Nov/2022) and according to it "the country is on track to fulfilling its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) commitment of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of additional carbon.
But the question that struck my mind is "The role of Indian administration and Politics in the establishment of the forests for net zero emission" as we have seen what happened in the case of "Aarey forest Maharashtra" . So its a long road I think and requires financial, physical, and mental determination, meaning the way we take nature (for granted) it should be changed and we should keep it this way that "if nature is there then only we are, then only the nation we are so proud are, is there and then only all our achievements and development are!"