Developed countries are unresponsive towards climate changes : India’s firm stance

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New York (USA) – India has said that the first-ever Global Stocktake outcome should prioritise addressing pre-2020 gaps, capture equity as an overarching concern and acknowledge the serious lack of ambition among developed nations in combating climate change. Global Stocktake is a report of the United Nations based on a period of two years, explaining the activities undertaken against global climate change after the Paris Agreement. This report, on the changes in the global climate, will be presented at the conference, COP 28, being held in December 2023 by the United Nations Organisation (UNO).

#India says that the #GlobalStocktake outcome should prioritise addressing pre-2020 gaps, capture equity as an overarching concern. https://t.co/2l994qNbvh

— BQ Prime (@bqprime) September 29, 2023

India has further stated in this regard that

The developed countries should know their responsibilities regarding the reduction in ‘greenhouse’ emissions and provide support to the developing countries in terms of finance, technology development and transfer, capacity building, etc. as a part of their commitment.

The outcome of the report should be to reduce the economic and social gap between developed and developing countries.

After the Paris Agreement of 2015, the action taken by the developed countries to check greenhouse gas emissions should be explained on a priority basis, since only discussions on what will be done in the future may not be logical.

India has made it clear that it does not support any other classification of developing countries, such as “major emitters”, “G20 partners”, and “other developing and emerging economies”, as these classifications overlook national circumstances and replace considerations of “equity and CBDR-RC” in terms of climate actions. India stated the developed countries are creating obstacles in the developing countries’ efforts related to fossil fuel by misconstruing a clause under the Paris Agreement. On the other hand, these countries are heavily investing in this field and thus, going away from their commitment.

What does the Paris Agreement say ?

It is an international treaty adopted in 2015, aimed at strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, by keeping a global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to find solutions to further limit the temperature increase.

It is unfair that some developed countries are using an article in the #ParisAgreement to restrict fossil fuel development in developing nations while they continue to invest in fossil fuels themselves, #India has said.https://t.co/4IjyTPbfwv

— Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) September 29, 2023

Editorial Perspective

So far, nobody questioned developed countries about their misconducts or rather nobody dared to ask, but India’s firm stand is like a slap for them.