According to a statement issued here, the spokesman termed the reports of secret meeting between Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi as baseless, saying no such meeting was held during the SAARC conference in Kathmandu.
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“Today, when the energy sources and excesses of our industrial age have put our planet in peril, the world must turn to Sun to power our future”, he added. Emphasizing that the Constitution was a social document and was not only about the laws, the Prime Minister said that the nation has a responsibility to live up to it and should follow the principle of togetherness. “We worry about the glaciers that feed our rivers and nurture our civilisation”, he added.
“Nobody needs to produce a certificate of patriotism”, Modi said winding up a debate in the Rajya Sabha on the Constitution, which he described as a “social document” that can guide the nation in all situations.
“We don’t think anyone should be asked to do what they can’t do but on the other hand, we need to be moving in ramping up and moving in a positive direction and with the kind of capacity building support that countries need in order to do the right kind of inventories, to do the right sort of reporting”.
The pavilion will also showcase films on adaptation measures taken up by India.
He said India’s progress is “our destiny and right of our people”.
The Magadh project, in the Indian state of Jharkhand, is part of a massive push by the world’s third-largest carbon emitter to close the gap between the amount of coal it produces domestically and the amount it’s consuming, particularly for electricity generation, as its economy grows.
The impacts of climate change on forests and agriculture were in the spotlight at the United Nations climate change conference (COP21) in Paris, as new alliances among organizations and stakeholders were announced aiming to eliminate natural deforestation and forest degradation, and to prevent threats to sustainable farming and people’s livelihoods.
Analysts welcomed the move as a sign India was taking a more proactive stance on climate change.
“We want to bring solar energy into lives and homes by making it cheaper, more reliable and easier to connect to the grid”. It will also mean that the developing world will also try to have a lighter carbon footprint on their growth path. “We want the world to work with urgency. Because our challenge is pressing, our efforts must be urgent”, he said.
He urged the leaders among the audience to show flexibility to reach an agreement.
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The agreement at the summit “must lead us to restore the balance between humanity and Nature and between what we have inherited and what we will leave behind”, he said.
