New Delhi: Moving from crowded plants, such as rice and wheat, towards harder plants such as millet can save the country 50 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions – the main driver of climate change – and 300 billion cubic meters of water every year in 2050, a New reports have been found.
Data-based predictions by researchers at the Center for Science, Technology and Policy Studies, Bengaluru also shows that India will have 500 million ACs in the next 30 years, encourage energy demand from now 2050 due to space cooling and electrical demands.
The researchers studied the possibility of a scenario in which India can fulfill its development goals (housing, food, health care, education, power, transportation) without sacrificing climate change commitments under the Paris agreement.
For example, in the government scenario capable of providing the same priority to development and climate, 24 giga tons of CO2 emissions can be saved cumulatively in 2050 and the total electricity demand is 34% lower than the scenario where India reaches its development goals without making efforts to respect the climate commitment.
In the first scenario, the total Indian greenhouse gas emissions in the 2040s and slowly declined post-2046.
The researchers developed this scenario using a sustainable Safari model (Futures for India).
Safari is a tool to understand and project Indian energy and resources by 2050, with a focus on the objectives of the development of meetings and also see alternative ways (or scenarios) to achieve sustainable development.
Five such alternative scenarios have been presented in new reports, ‘energy and emissions implications for the desired quality of life in India through safari’.
This tool also suggests ways to minimize trade-offs through alternatives that move away from solid water to millet.
In March this year, the Prime Minister Modi said that India was well on track to achieve his Paris Target target before the deadline of 2030.
Empirical evidence showed that in the last 200 years, economic development has led to a significant increase in global emissions.
Researchers want to understand how the former can be achieved without sacrificing the last.
“Our model aims to start conversations around this question by presenting some reasonable scenarios, to understand the extent to which our development goals and our commitment to reduce carbon can join,” Shweta Srinivasan said, one of the report writers.
In the scenario discussed above, the three most effective interventions in terms of carbon mitigation are – improvement in the train in total transportation transportation of up to 35% by 2050, the policy of increased coal power plants and increased environmental use and environmental improvement of construction materials Friendly which reduces the need to cool the building.
Another scenario presented in the report assumes that if the current policy continues, then the development objectives or climate goals are achieved.
Compared to 2020, in 2050, electricity demand increased four times, final and primary energy demand increased by around 2.5-3 times and greenhouse gas emissions more than doubled.
In addition, the thinning of ground water, urban congestion and air pollution deteriorated.
This report also suggests that densification instead of sprawl in urban areas reduce demand for transportation and emissions.
However, a higher building requires 10-20% more intensive energy construction materials, such as steel.
The exit can use alternative materials to reduce cooling demands.
Shifting from rice to millets, saving 50 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2050: report
