INDIA SET UP THE APEX COMMITTEE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF PARIS AGREEMENT TO ENSURE COORDINATED RESPONSE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

INDIA SET UP THE APEX COMMITTEE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF PARIS AGREEMENT TO ENSURE COORDINATED RESPONSE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

29TH NOVEMBER 2020

The Central government has formed an Apex Committee for Implementation of Paris Agreement (AIPA). The AIPA has been formed for the purpose of ensuring a coordinated response on climate change matters that protects the country’s interests and ensures that India is on track towards meeting the objective of climate change obligations under the Paris Agreement.

India is a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) whose ambition is to attain stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at that standandard which would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

India had submitted its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in 2015 for implementation of the Paris Agreement in the post-2020 period. Implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement dealing with market, non-market and voluntary approaches, necessitate an inter-ministerial committee to supersede the National CDM Authority (NCDMA) constituted under the Kyoto Protocol.