Denying there is any pressure on India ahead of next month’s Paris Climate Change Conference as a result of the China-US climate deal, India on Saturday said its per-capita emissions are much lower than the top two polluters and its efforts in cutting pollution are widely appreciated.
India will not reach the per-capita emission levels, China and the US have committed to achieve by 2020, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said after attending the 21st BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, China) countries meeting on Climate Change here.
Replying to a question on whether the China-US deal will put any pressure on India, he said, “No way. India has done exceedingly well. Our Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) have been appreciated all over the world.”
last November, world’s top two carbon emitters, China and the US reached a surprise agreement on climate change to take ambitious action to limit greenhouse gases emission and announced respective post-2020 goals of coping with climate change during US President Barack Obama’s visit here. The deal came as a surprise to India and other countries as China was part of BASIC countries - fighting for the rights of the developing countries - and it criticised India whose emissions were way below that of China’s.