Pariksha SaathiIndia launches Net Zero Portal and NAPCC Dashboard
On World Ozone Day, 16 September 2026, Kirti Vardhan Singh, Minister of State in the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry, unveiled two climate-governance tools in Mumbai: a national Net Zero Portal and a dashboard for the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). The Net Zero Portal lets Indian organisations from any sector voluntarily register and publicly disclose their Net Zero commitments: reporting greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1 and 2 encouraged, Scope 3 optional), declaring a Net Zero target, filing annual progress updates and describing their route there through clean energy, energy efficiency, technology or carbon removal. Entities that declare targets receive an acknowledgement from the Environment Ministry. The NAPCC Dashboard pulls indicators and progress data from the National Missions under the NAPCC onto one platform, helping ministries coordinate, assess sectoral progress, spot implementation gaps and link domestic action with India's international climate commitments. The government presents both as steps towards more transparent, evidence-based climate action.
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Learning context
World Ozone Day, 16 September, was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1994 to mark the signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer on that date in 1987. The Protocol is an ozone treaty, separate from the UNFCCC climate process that produced the Paris Agreement. Its Kigali Amendment, agreed on 15 October 2016, added a phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are potent greenhouse gases. India's NAPCC itself dates from 2008.
Reference: United Nations page on the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
Check yourself: is World Ozone Day linked to the signing of the Paris Agreement?
No. It marks the signing of the Montreal Protocol on 16 September 1987. The Paris Agreement (2015) belongs to the separate UNFCCC climate process.
Revision task: separate the occasion (World Ozone Day and the ozone treaty) from what was launched (the Net Zero Portal and the NAPCC Dashboard), and note which of the two platforms relies on voluntary participation.
Test yourself
On World Ozone Day 2026, India launched a national Net Zero Portal along with a dashboard for which national plan?
Show the answer
Answer: National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)
The Net Zero Portal lets organisations voluntarily register and publicly disclose Net Zero commitments (Scope 1 and 2 emissions encouraged, Scope 3 optional); the NAPCC Dashboard brings together indicators and progress from the National Missions under the plan.
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