New Delhi, Apr 10: India will be dependent on renewable sources such as solar, hydro and biofuels to meet 50 per cent of its energy requirements by 2050.
Through the use efficiency measures the country will also
be able to reduce 50 per cent of its energy consumption.
In an outlook commissioned by Greenpeace and European
Renewable Energy Council and assembled by German research firm
DLR institute of technical thermodynamics, it was revealed
that developing countries like China, India, Brazil and South
America need to play a key role in combating climate change.
"Assuming an average growth of 3.9 per cent for the
following decades, a blueprint has been developed that reduces
co2 emissions by four per cent, thus decoupling economic
growth and fossil fuel consumption," the outlook said.
However, Greenpeace Executive Director G
Ananthapadmanabhan said coal would have to be phased out if
the climate change has to be contained.
"It is a clear that coal has to go. There is no such
thing as clean coal, it is always dirty. We must start
thinking beyond coal," he said adding that the government
needs to form a dedicated renewable energy policy.
"We are asking government to shift all incentives and
subsidies for coal to renewable energy," Greenpeace team
leader - Climate and Energy Campaign K Srinivas said.
Greenpeace is asking the centre to ban, by 2010, any
equipment that takes 25 lumens per watt, those using 35 lumens
by 2012 and 55 lumens by 2015.
"The electricity mix needs to be gradually increased from
the current four per cent to 10 per cent by 2010, 20 per cent
by 2020 and 65 per cent by 2050," Srinivas said.
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 00:00