<p>The Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Ministry has been asked to engage the largest polluting industries like the automobile and cement, giving them the emission cut targets, a senior official said.<br /><br />Similar advisory has also gone to several other ministries such as transport, power and agriculture for determining the pollution limits for different sectors.<br /><br />"Very shortly, the sector-wise allocation of reduction will emerge," he said.<br />He said consultations with the automobile industry have already begun. Fixing the pollution threshold involves "data collection and their extrapolation depending on the technology", he said.<br /><br />The Planning Commission has also constituted an expert group headed by prominent economist Kirit Parikh to prepare a strategy for making the country's economy low carbon intensive.The group has been formed in keeping with India's commitment to make it a "low carbon"’ economy for which it has recently announced voluntary and unilateral targets to reduce emissions intensity of its GDP by 20-25 per cent.<br />The 25-member panel will present an interim report by April end.<br /><br />Though India's unsupported emission mitigation plan is not subject to international scrutiny, it has taken a commitment under the Copenhagen Accord to subject its measures to the international "analysis and consultations" under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).</p>
<p>The Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Ministry has been asked to engage the largest polluting industries like the automobile and cement, giving them the emission cut targets, a senior official said.<br /><br />Similar advisory has also gone to several other ministries such as transport, power and agriculture for determining the pollution limits for different sectors.<br /><br />"Very shortly, the sector-wise allocation of reduction will emerge," he said.<br />He said consultations with the automobile industry have already begun. Fixing the pollution threshold involves "data collection and their extrapolation depending on the technology", he said.<br /><br />The Planning Commission has also constituted an expert group headed by prominent economist Kirit Parikh to prepare a strategy for making the country's economy low carbon intensive.The group has been formed in keeping with India's commitment to make it a "low carbon"’ economy for which it has recently announced voluntary and unilateral targets to reduce emissions intensity of its GDP by 20-25 per cent.<br />The 25-member panel will present an interim report by April end.<br /><br />Though India's unsupported emission mitigation plan is not subject to international scrutiny, it has taken a commitment under the Copenhagen Accord to subject its measures to the international "analysis and consultations" under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).</p>
