India has pledged that 60% of its installed electricity capacity by 2035 will come from non-fossil sources, the Union government said on Wednesday.

The government said that it also aims to cut by 47% the intensity of carbon emissions per unit of the gross domestic product from the 2005 level.

India aims to further increase its carbon sink to 3.5 billion tonnes to 4 billion tonnes through forest and tree cover by 2035 from the 2005 level. A carbon sink comprises elements such as forests, plants and soil that absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The aims were announced as part of the Nationally Determined Contributions for the 2031-’35 period cleared by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday. The targets will be communicated to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The declarations are national climate action plans of each country under the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Under the 2015 agreement, countries had agreed to keep the long-term global average surface temperature well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the 21st century.

A warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius can lead to severe climate change impacts and extreme weather. Pre-industrial levels refer to global atmospheric conditions before the...

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