Dedicating a separate section, the Economic Survey 2021 underlined the need to include climate change and sustainable development in policy planning. While it lauded the commitments made by India at COP26 global climate conference, the Survey also made a note about the pace of investment in net-zero emission planning.
“India’s climate vision is also integrally linked to India’s vision of development that foregrounds the goals of poverty eradication and guaranteeing basic well-being as an immediate necessity to meet the challenge of global warming,” said the Survey.
It said the two main pillars for mitigation action to achieve net-zero carbon ambition are transition