COP-23: India reiterates its positive & constructive role in combating Climate change

India has said, it considers climate change as a major threat to collective well-being and wants to play a positive and constructive role in combating it.Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr Harsh Vardhan said this while inaugurating the India Pavilion at the ongoing meeting of Conference of Parties (COP-23) at the UN climate summit that kicked off at Bonn in Germany last evening. 

The Minister noted that solving the crisis of climate change is not a question of politics but a moral obligation. He said, although India's per capita emissions are only one-third of the global average,



and its contribution to global stock of carbon dioxide is less than three per cent, it has still moved ahead with the implementation of path-breaking initiatives.

The objective of Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, by 195 parties to the UNFCCC is to prevent an increase in global average temperature and keep it well below 2 degree Celsius.

US President Donald Trump had recently announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and renegotiate the deal that was agreed upon by over 190 countries during the previous Barack Obama administration.