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Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Kirti Vardhan Singh launched India's Net Zero Portal and the NAPCC Dashboard at Mumbai on 16 September 2026, at the national celebration of the 32nd World Ozone Day.
The Net Zero Portal lets Indian entities voluntarily register net-zero targets and disclose greenhouse gas emissions; Scope 1 and Scope 2 reporting is encouraged and Scope 3 reporting is voluntary.
The NAPCC Dashboard consolidates implementation and indicator data for the National Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change for inter-ministerial monitoring.
The event also saw 248 Industrial Training Institutes adopted by 12 refrigeration and air-conditioning manufacturers through a four-party Memorandum of Agreement to train technicians in low-GWP refrigerants.
India, a Party to the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol since 1992, has met its 2015, 2020 and 2025 HCFC phase-out targets and ratified the Kigali Amendment in September 2021.
Bring voluntary corporate and institutional net-zero action in India onto one public, comparable platform.
Key: Entities disclose GHG emissions, declare net-zero targets and file annual progress updates; Scope 1 and Scope 2 reporting encouraged, Scope 3 voluntary; pathways may cover clean energy transition, energy efficiency, technology interventions and carbon removals.
Consolidated, indicator-based monitoring of the National Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change.
Key: Supports inter-ministerial coordination, identifies implementation gaps and links domestic climate action to India's international climate commitments.
India's overarching climate mitigation and adaptation framework, released on 30 June 2008 under the guidance of the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change.
Key: Eight national missions - National Solar Mission, Enhanced Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Habitat, Water, Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, Green India, Sustainable Agriculture, and Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change.
Launched by MoEFCC on 8 March 2019; India was the first country in the world to publish a comprehensive national cooling plan, giving a 20-year perspective.
Key: Targets for 2037-38 - cooling demand down 20-25%, refrigerant demand down 25-30%, cooling energy requirement down 25-40%; plus training and certification of servicing-sector technicians in synergy with the Skill India Mission.
The final HPMP stage, running 2023-2030, to eliminate the remaining HCFCs; Stage I ran 2012-2016 and Stage II 2017-2024.
Key: HCFCs phased out in the manufacture of new equipment by 31 December 2024, with servicing-sector activity continuing to 2030; Germany's GIZ supports the refrigeration and air-conditioning servicing component.
Behaviour-change mission launched on 20 October 2022 at the Statue of Unity, Ekta Nagar (Kevadia), Gujarat, with the UN Secretary-General present; the LiFE idea was first articulated by the Prime Minister at COP26 in 2021.
Key: Three-pronged demand-supply-policy strategy; the minister tied it to sustainable cooling habits - servicing by certified technicians, setting air-conditioners near 24 degrees Celsius, and buying high star-rated appliances using climate-friendly refrigerants.
A framework convention: it created the machinery for international cooperation on ozone protection but imposed no binding controls on ozone-depleting substances. India joined in 1992.
Adopted on 16 September 1987 and in force from 1 January 1989, it supplied the binding phase-out schedules the Vienna Convention lacked - first CFCs, then carbon tetrachloride, halons and HCFCs.
Agreed at the 28th Meeting of the Parties in Kigali, Rwanda on 15 October 2016 and in force from 1 January 2019, it brings hydrofluorocarbons under the Protocol. HFCs do not deplete ozone but are potent greenhouse gases, so this is a climate amendment to an ozone treaty.
India's National Ozone Unit, set up by MoEFCC to implement the Montreal Protocol and the country's ODS phase-out programme; it released studies at the World Ozone Day event.
Secretariat of the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol, hosted by the UN Environment Programme.
German federally owned development enterprise, formed on 1 January 2011 from the merger of GTZ, DED and InWEnt; partners India on HPMP Stage III and on technician certification.
Apex national body for vocational training, running the Craftsmen Training Scheme through the ITI network; its Regional and State Directorates are parties to the RAC-ITI Memorandum of Agreement.
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General Awareness > Environment and Current Affairs
Which one of the following is associated with the issue of control and phasing out of the use of ozone-depleting substances?
Answer: Montreal Protocol
Scope 1 covers an entity's direct emissions, Scope 2 its purchased-energy emissions and Scope 3 its wider value-chain emissions. The Net Zero Portal encourages Scope 1 and Scope 2 reporting and keeps Scope 3 voluntary.
A chemical such as a CFC, halon, carbon tetrachloride or HCFC that destroys stratospheric ozone and is therefore controlled under the Montreal Protocol.
A measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps relative to carbon dioxide over a given period; HFCs have high GWP, which is why the Kigali Amendment phases them down.