New Delhi, Jan 19 (PTI) India has to keep doing what it must to deal effectively with its multiple vulnerabilities to climate change, irrespective of the approach of the United States on the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, former environment minister Jairam Ramesh said on Sunday.
The Congress general secretary shared on X a screenshot of the cover of a book written by former US envoy for climate change Todd Stern, titled “Landing the Paris Climate Agreement”.
“It is ironic that a US insider’s excellent account of how the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement came about has been published just as President Trump’s incoming administration readies to withdraw from it a second time,” Ramesh said in his post on X.
“But whatever the US approach, India has to keep doing what it must to deal effectively with its multiple vulnerabilities to climate change — which is already having profound economic, social, and public health impacts,” he said.
The former environment minister asserted that it is in India’s self-interest to be proactive.
“But you cannot inflict disasters like the Great Nicobar mega infraproject and claim ecological leadership,” he said.
Ramesh had, in November last year, said Donald Trump’s comeback has made the future of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which America had rejoined under President Joe Biden, “extremely shaky” and added that if the United States was to withdraw from it again, it would be disastrous. PTI ASK RC
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