Glasgow: The world needs to join hands to respect the commitment made by the 2015 Paris Agreement and take immediate steps towards adaptation, making climate finance available for developing countries, the United Night Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Friday.
Yadav, who represented India at the 26th COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow, wrote on his blog that rich countries that reap the benefits of initial industrialization by burning fossil fuels and growing the economy they must accommodate necessary economic concerns and needs Make a switch for cleaning and green energy.
“When we move to wrap this very important climate summit, the world needs to unite to respect commitments made based on the 2015 Paris Agreement and take steps immediately towards adaptation and make climate finance available for developing countries to make important transitions – socially and in Economy to compensate for climate change, “he wrote on the ‘Cop Diary’ blog.
The minister said that India, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has explained that it was ready to walk in an extra mile in combating climate change but also reminded the advanced world that they had historically triggered the current crisis and had developed with the cost of global environmental .
“There is no nation, no matter how big or small, can save the planet itself.
In the spirit of cooperation, India has asked the world to do a little, lead by giving examples in fulfilling all their environmental obligations – globally and nationally,” he said.
The minister said that there was an increasing public demand for climate action and to harmonize economic recovery with long-term sustainability and climate purposes.
“Given the new interest in collective action, COP26 offers a unique opportunity to increase ambition and repeat global commitment to combat climate change,” he said, adding that the world must begin to act together on four problems, mitigation, finance and responsibility.
“It’s time for the world to unite to respect the commitment made by the Paris Agreement, which set goals to limit global warming to far below 2, preferably up to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.” Because the climate convention is held in the year.
1992, where there was no targeted temperature set, to Copenhagen Accord (Copenhagen, COP15, 2009), where the temperature target of 2 degrees Celsius was adopted, for the Cancun Agreement, COP16, 2010, where the discussion was 1.5 degrees Celsius as a goal Long-term introduced, for Durban Declaration, COP17, 2011, which set a temperature target of 1.5 degrees Celsius as an option on the same status with 2 degrees Celsius, the world has been far away, “he said.
Article 2 of the Paris Agreement (COP21, 2015) said , “Holding an increase in the global average temperature far below 2 ° C above the pre-industrial level and pursuing efforts to limit the increase in temperature to the pre-industrial level above 1.5 C above TI Pre-industry NGKAT realizes that this will significantly reduce the risk and impact of climate change.
“During the pre-COP26, Glasgow, 2021, negotiations,” keeping 1.5 degrees C live “into a slogan.” To achieve this target, developed countries must share the technology needed and finance with developing countries, “he said.
Talking about Mitigation issues, the Minister of Environment said developing countries did their bits with voluntary declarations through NAMAs (appropriate mitigation actions).
Demand for work programs on Long-term cooperation (LCA), including commitment, made from developing countries in Bali, COP13, 2007, he said.
Emphasizing financial and technology transfers from developing countries to developing countries is very basic, he said that there was no commitment to the financial mechanisms and critical technology for 17 years from the Convention in Rio to Copenhagen.
“In Copenhagen, COP15, 2009, financial commitment was finally embedded to mobilize $ 100 billion per year in 2020.
The target date to mobilize $ 100 billion per year was postponed by 2025 in Paris, COP21, 2021.
“The world cannot wait longer for this critical finance to save themselves from climate change and accompany environmental degradation,” said Yadav.