Net Zero Roadmap: A Global Pathway to Keep the 1.5°C: Global Biofuels Alliance Led by India at G20

By : Ashwani Kumar

Page No: 187-198

Abstract
Climate change is long term fluctuation in temperature, precipitation, wind and all other aspects of Earth’s climate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UNEP body formed under WMO is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. For the first time in human history, concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2 ), the primary global warming pollutant, hit 400 parts per million (ppm) in our planet’s atmosphere. IPCC has prepared a report on climate change, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. Humanity will overshoot the Paris Climate Agreement’s 1.5°C ‘safe’ guardrail on average global temperature rise. The report suggests that if no significant policy changes are undertaken the world will be warm by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting will happen by the end of the century. Recently, during the G20 held in India a Global Biofuels Alliance (GBA), an India-led ‘field-to-fuel’ initiative to develop and deploy biofuels as a green pathway for energy transition, job creation and economic growth was initiated. Recent efforts have focused on the development of renewable alternatives to fossil fuels, and cellulosic biomass has great potential to contribute to the demand for liquid fuel. Algal biofuels are in the nascent stage of development. A review of the present situation shall be presented.

Author :
Ashwani Kumar : Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (Germany), Former Head of the Department of Botany and Biotechnology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPSR.2023.39.03.21