Amid efforts to revise the global warming target to within 1.5 degree Celsius from pre-industrial times, Indian experts on Wednesday demanded that the world must agree to a fair allocation of carbon space and enhance financial and technological support to developing countries.
Noting that developed countries will have to significantly increase the level of their own efforts and reach net zero emissions in the next 5-10 years, they said that if they fail to do so, the 1.5 degree target will "remain a hollow shell —devoid of any real significance".
The experts are T Jayaraman who is a professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Anand Patwardhan, professor at the University of Maryland and IIT-Bombay and Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General, Centre for Science and Environment.
"While we welcome this increase in ambition, we would like to draw the attention of the climate negotiators to the need to allocate the remaining carbon budget in a fair manner to all countries so that there is a chance for meeting this temperature target.
"We would also like to emphasis the fact that meeting this temperature goal would require massive enhancement of financial and technological support from the developed countries to the developing countries so that they are able to move quickly onto low-carbon development pathways," said three Indian experts in a joint statement.
Developed countries have openly given their support to this goal while India and China have also shown their willingness to consider this temperature goal.