But the world’s two largest coal consumers, China and India, chose not to follow through on this promise, bucking the pressure from the West.
The Declaration on Climate and Health was the second effort to which India declined to sign. Checking greenhouse gas emissions in health systems is its goal. One hundred forty-four countries endorsed the proclamation.
Source: India Today
In its capacity as G20 president, India had earlier this year committed, via its national plan, to tripling its renewable energy capacity to 450 GW by 2030. Prime Minister Modi’s criticism of the wealthy countries in Dubai is consistent with its firm stance on the matter at the Conference of the Parties.
He emphasised that India has achieved a balance between the environment and the economy by stating that the nation was on course to cut emissions by 45% by the year 2030. He emphasised that even though 17% of the world’s population lived in India, the country only contributed 4% to global warming.
Source: ABC News (Australia)
Justice thus required that the industrialised nations that had produced the majority of the climate issue also support low-carbon economies in emerging nations by providing funding and climate technologies to them.
Following the COP28’s directive to reduce the amount of coal-fired power plants is not financially feasible for India’s development goals because the Global North has failed on this front. COP28 did, however, adopt the “loss and damage fund,” which represents a step in the right direction toward climate justice. The rich world’s need to at last provide the Global South with sufficient compensation to fight climate change is now moot.
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