India will formally sign the Paris agreement, adopted by more than 190 countries at last year’s climate change summit in the French capital, at the UN Headquarters in New York later this month.
Noting that the summit, held in November-December last year, helped change India’s image of being “negative and a naysayer” after PM Narendra Modi introduced the concept of climate justice, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar blamed the “uncontrolled” carbon emission by developed nations for the present state of the climate.
“India, along with 100 other nations would ratify the Conference of Parties (COP) 21 global climate agreement on April 22. COP 21 would be ratified at a high-level signing ceremony to be convened at the UN Headquarters in New York,” Javadekar said while addressing a symposium ‘COP 21 — Building Synergies, Shaping Actions’ organised at the University of Mumbai.