Paris climate summit: India ‘not too disappointed’ with progress, says environment secretary
India said it is looking into the new drafts of the agreement to figure out how to move ahead in the negotiations.
India said on Friday it was “not too disappointed” with the way the consensus is being built at the United Nations climate change conference in Paris, as negotiators released all three new draft texts of the agreement. India said it is looking into the new drafts to figure out how to move ahead in the negotiations, adding that it hoped to narrow down the review points in the next few days.
On the fifth day of the summit, environment secretary Ashok Lavasa told PTI that there are concerns which different parties have and those are being discussed. “Different groups are talking to each other very actively so that we understand each other and see how much agreement is possible to achieved,” he said.
The 12-day conference will aim to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement, with the aim of keeping the rise in global temperatures to below two degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. India and other developing countries want the agreement to state clearly that developed nations have a bigger responsibility to fight global warming. Developed nations are maintaining that all countries must chip in.