New Delhi, Nov. 21 -- India, the world's third-largest carbon emitter, is yet to submit its climate action agenda, a concern that became a talking point at the United Nations COP30 in Brazil's Belem. India's five-year submissions, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), are meant to set more ambitious emission-cut targets.

So far, as many as 120 of the 196 member countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)have submitted their updated climate plans.

The 2015 Paris Agreement aims to keep global warming well below 2degC and ideally to 1.5degC. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), meeting those goals will require cutting annual emissions by 35% to 55% by 2035 compared...