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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.As the 23rd conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn shifts into high gear, developing countries including India are focussing on theimperatives of ensuring adequate financing for mitigation and adaptation. They are moving ahead with specific instruments for loss and damage they suffer due todestructive climate-linked events. India's progress in reducing the intensity of its greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP by 20-25% from 2005 levels by 2020,based on the commitment made in Copenhagen in 2009, has been positive. Early studies also suggest that it is on track to achieve the national pledge under the2015 Paris Agreement for a 33-35% cut in emissions intensity per unit of growth from the same base year (2015) by 2030, and thus heed the 2°C global warminggoal. Since this performance is predicated on a growth rate of just over 7%, and the parallel target for 40% share of renewable energy by that year (2030), thenational road map is clear. What is not, however, is the impact of extreme weather events such as droughts and floods that would have a bearing on economicgrowth. It is in this context that the rich countries must give up their rigid approach towards the demands of low and middle income countries, and come to an earlyresolution on the question of financing of mitigation, adaptation and compensation. Of course, India could further raise its ambition in the use of green technologiesand emissions cuts, which would give it the mantle of global climate leadership.What is the Paris Agreement's central aim?1). To kee p rise in global temperature below 2°C2). To compel rich countries to give up their rigid approach3). Force developing countries to be more ambitious in thei r emission cuts4). The world should have atleast 40% energy from renewables |
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