Global community lacks will to tackle climate problem: PM
change.
"...it is necessary to recognise that currently there appears to be a lack of collective global will to address this problem with the seriousness it deserves," he said at a function in New Delhi.
The
need
for
equity,
he
said,
is
starkly
reflected
in
the
fact
that
the
emissions
per
capita
in
the
"industrialised
countries
are
10
to
12
times
that
of
those
in
developing
countries".
In this regard, he referred to the principles of UN framework convention on climate change which provide the basis of creating a workable framework based on a broad-based equitable and multi-lateral response to issues relating to climate change.
Stressing on the need for a broad-based cooperation from developed as well as developing countries to address the issue, he said, "That cooperation must be based on the foundation of the right to development and the need for an equitable distribution of burden sharing".
The Prime Minister said solving the problem should be in a way that it does not "deprive developing countries of their right to development", adding India which is in the frontlines of climate vulnerability, has a vital stake in the evolution of a successful response to climate change.
PTI