India to submit contributions for reducing emissions next week

India's Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that the country will soon submit "comprehensive and balanced" Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) on reducing emissions during the next week.

The submission of the INDC will coincide with the birth anniversary of India's father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi. India will submit its INDCs in Bonn on the 1 October, 2015 and will declare then in Delhi just before the deadline for nations to submit their commitments.

"If human intervention has caused climate change, then human instinct and intelligence will bring out solutions. India's INDCs will be comprehensive, balanced and ambitious enough. We are covering mitigation, adaptation and finance technology,"Javadekarsaid.

Javadekar said that Mahatma Gandhi was among the first one to have concerns on environment and talked about conservation lifestyle and sustainable development and practices.

He also said that the government will cover all aspects including increasing renewables, lowering emission and energy intensity, building resilience capacity in states, more carbon sync, development of newer technologies and capacity building of vulnerable countries and Least Developed Countries. He also said that India is aiming to be a part of the solution of the problem.

Javadekar attended a lunch meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on climate action that was also attended by other heads of state and Foreign Ministers.

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