New Delhi, March 26 -- India on Wednesday approved enhanced climate targets for the 2031-2035 period under the Paris Agreement, raising its commitments on emissions, clean energy, and forests at a time when the United States has withdrawn from the global climate framework and several developed nations are scaling back ambition. The Union cabinet approved three quantitative goals as part of India's revised nationally determined contribution (NDC) - the formal pledge each country makes under the Paris Agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The new targets represent a step-up from the goals India set for the 2030 period, announced in August 2022. India now aims to reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP - the amount of greenhouse gases produced per unit of economic output - by 47% by 2035 from 2005 levels, up from the earlier target of 45% by 2030. It has committed to drawing 60% of its cumulative installed electricity capacity from non-fossil sources by 2035, against the previous goal of 50% by 2030. And it has raised its target for carbon sinks - CO2 absorbed through forest and tree cover - to 3.5-4 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2035, from 2.5-3 billion tonnes by 2030. On each count, India is already ahead of its earlier schedule. The country's emissions intensity fell 36% between 2005 and 2020. Non-fossil sources accounted for 52.57% of installed capacity as of February 2026, meeting the 2030 target five years early. And India had created 2.29 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent in carbon sinks by 2021, the Centre said. The revised NDC was long awaited. The initial deadline for countries to submit their 2035 targets was September 2025. Most countries missed this. India's commitments, the Centre said, are aligned with its vision of a Viksit Bharat by 2047. "India's new targets represent a commitment to climate multilateralism," said Avantika Goswami, programme manager for climate change at the Centre for Science and Environment....