Reject this inequitable climate proposal
T. Jayaraman
Tejal Kanitkar
September 18, 2020 00:02 IST
Updated: September 18, 2020 11:46 IST
The UN Secretary General’s recent advice to India amounts to asking for its virtual de-industrialisation and stagnation
The UN Secretary General António Guterres’s call for India to give up coal immediately and reduce emissions by 45% by 2030 is a call to de-industrialise the country and abandon the population to a permanent low-development trap.
Piling on the pressure
In an extraordinary move in climate diplomacy, Mr. Guterres, delivering the Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture on August 28, at the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), in New Delhi, called on India to make no new investment in coal after 2020. Superficially framed as an even-handed appeal to all G20 nations, it was in reality a deliberate setting aside of the foundational principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that distinguish sharply between the responsibilities and commitments of developed countries vis-Ã -vis those of developing countries.
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