sharm elsheikh countries including india representing more than 50 of global gdp on friday jointly launched a package of 25 new collaborative actions at the un climate talks cop27 to be delivered by the next years conference to speed up decarbonisation of five key sectors power road transport steel hydrogen and agriculture these sectors collectively account for more than 50 of global emissionworking out a common target date to phase out polluting cars and vehicles is one of the collaborative actions under the plan though preliminary di scussion backed such target dates of 2040 globally and 2035 in leading markets the countries will take an individual call on their respective target dates considering their domestic circumstancesthe actions under each sector will be delivered through coalitions of committed countries from the g7 european commission india egypt morocco and others suppo rted by leading international organizations and initiatives and spearheaded by a core group of leading governments these efforts will be reinforced with private finance and leading industry initiatives more countries will be encouraged to join the action plan to decarbonise the five sectors the countries have taken the decision to decarbonise these sectors under the breakthrough agenda which was launched by a coalition of 45 world leaders including pm modi at the cop26 in glasgow last year it is an international clean technology plan to help keep the 1 5 degree c temperature goal within reachthe agenda provides a framework for countries and businesses and civil society to join up and strengthen their actions e very year in key emitting sectors through a coalition of leading public private and publicprivate global initiativesthe leaders agreed at cop26 to review progress on the agenda annually and explore priority international actions needed to accelerate towards the breakthroughs informed by an annual independent expert report from the international energy agency iea international renewable energy agency irena and un high level championsthe breakthrough agenda matters because we cannot achieve the 1 5 degreec target without consistently working together in a more focused and collaborative way said a statement on the objectives of the agenda