WNAM Monitoring: India’s environment minister, Bhupender Yadav, on Saturday demanded “equity and justice” in UN climate negotiations, holding that rich countries should be leading global climate action.
The comments underlined India’s long-held position that, as a developing country, it should not be a forced to cut its energy-related emissions — even as it is the world’s third-biggest emitting country after China and the United States.
With the COP28 climate summit in Dubai scheduled to end on Tuesday, delegates were working to resolve an impasse over whether to address the future use of fossil fuel.
India and other countries whose economies rely on fossil fuels argue that wealthy countries should be doing more, because they have released more climate-warming emissions since the industrial revolution.
“India firmly believes that equity and climate justice must be the basis of global climate action,” Yadav told the summit.
