India Skips Key Meet On Climate Change : Real Culprits The G8 Trying To Browbeat
Protesters hold a banner reading ‘100 Days To Cop’ during a demonstration marking 100 days until COP26 in London, on 23 July 2021
India was the only one of 51 invited countries that didn’t attend a two-day ministerial meeting in London, hosted by the incoming president of the COP26 United Nations talks
The smartness of the G7 block countries will work no longer. They cannot eat the cake and have it too at the same time. They talk about Global efforts to tackle climate change but will not contribute themselves. So their smartness has suffered a setback this week as India just refused to attend their cleverly organised fresh diplomatic gathering in London.
India, fed up of the “ clever “ tactics of these so called advanced countries was the only one of 51 invited countries that didn’t attend a two-day ministerial meeting in the U.K. capital, hosted by the incoming president of the COP26 United Nations talks. These advanced countries looted, burned, de forested and ravaged the World environment and the World itself, starting nearly 350 years back and have attained their present status. They are the ones who have contributed the maximum to the degradation of environment and increase in global temperature. Now they want the rising economies to curb their growth and pay in the present for the extravaganzas of the G7 done in the past. They themselves are reluctant to contribute. Rather they like to be in control still by supplying latest technology to countries like India but at a very hefty price.
The so called conference, yet another in the series was designed to “lay the groundwork”—actually to Browbeat Countries like India, for a successful COP26, which is due to take place in Glasgow in three months time. COP26 President Alok Sharma has said it will be the last chance to ensure global temperature increases don’t exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius — the lower limit of the Paris Agreement. A Group of 20 meeting last week failed to clinch a more ambitious agreement on climate, and India was a key holdout.
Yes, no one should take India for granted. Gone are the days when G7 or even G20 could think of pressurizing India.
The London event was positioned to follow on from the G-20 with a broader group, meeting mainly in person. India had been due to attend the conference, according to a statement released by Sharma’s office beforehand.
Gaurav Khare, a spokesman for India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, has clearly stated that the government of India had decided against attending in person as the country had already made its views known at the G-20 in Naples. Then technical issues prevented it from taking part virtually.
Sharma “has constructive ongoing dialogue with his counterparts in India, having visited the country earlier this year where he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” a spokeswoman for COP26 said.
India’s refusal to show was perceived as a snub by the COP presidency, one of the people present at the London summit said. With all of the Group of Seven nations now having committed to eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the presidency is seeking to put pressure on emerging economies such as China and India. Imagine PRESSURIZING China and India together!!!!!!!!
The main sticking points to achieving the goals of the Paris accord are agreeing on concrete actions and a firm timeline to phasing out fossil fuels and subsidies, as well as commitments to ditch coal, the people said. The world’s richest countries are also falling well short of financial pledges to support energy transitions in developing countries, they said. So the “ problem” is clear. Having used Coal for 400 years to achieve their present status, G7 wants that China and India should stop using COAL to meet their energy needs. At the same time the G7 is unwilling to supply technology at a cheaper rate for alternate source of energy.
India held out at the Naples meeting last week, with the final communique from the gathering included a footnote saying the country rejected the language agreed on net-zero emissions. India is not alone in resisting these efforts, with many other countries reluctant to sign up to the clever plans if the G7, in full.
Thus India has rightly has often taken the position that the richest countries should lead in cutting emissions — criticized those that have promised to achieve net-zero carbon by 2050. It instead urged G-20 nations to make a pledge that focused on per-capita emissions.
While India is the third-largest emitter on a country basis, it is also the second-most populous. As a result, emissions per head are extremely low, ranking 134, according to the Global Carbon Atlas project.
“Keeping in view the legitimate need of developing countries to growth, we urge G-20 countries to commit to bringing down per-capita emissions to global average by 2030,” India said in a statement attached to the final G20 document.
Earlier this year, India had been mulling setting its own net-zero target by 2050, according to people familiar with the matter. A statement about the plan had been expected during a White House climate summit in April, but never came.
“With less than 100 days until COP26, India faces a clear decision: follow its friends in favour of an ambitious outcome on climate in Glasgow, or leave itself starkly isolated on the world stage by continuing to oppose the need for accelerated climate action before COP26,” said Tom Evans, a researcher at the think tank E3G.
A food for thought for people like Tom Evans. Do not even dream of ISOLATING India. With Combined India and China and even Russia joining ( will SAARC and most of erstwhile Soviet Republics far behind ) we will see who gets isolated !!!!!!
