EcoSikh has been invited by French President Francois Hollande and by the White House this year on consultations on climate change issues for faith perspectives. The leaders also launched Grammy victor Ricky Kej’s new album of “world music for environmental consciousness”.
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“Obama certainly does respect Prime Minister Modi and has appreciation for his skills and abilities as a politician”.
“India stands to be affected severely from the effects of climate change in the coming decades”. The Prime Minister in a message from London said that the government would not be deterred by such cowardly terrorist attacks.
India has contended that the developed countries have a historical responsibility, since the burden of pollution over 200 years have come from there.
India is ready to reduce its reliance on coal further if the developed countries agree to help it shift to cleaner energy sources with adequate finances and technology, a top negotiator has said as attempts intensified to find a long-term solution to climate change by phasing out carbon emissions.
“India has a capacity of 4GW and we have set a target of adding 100 GW of solar power by 2022. We should feel the pain and take this to ensure such things do not happen”.
“Markets need to scale up investment in solar and other clean energies and to accelerate a low carbon transmission of the global economy”, said Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. “India has shown twice today that it is helping lead the world forward on solar and clean energy”, Coequy said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India will also provide land and about 30 Million US $ for building a secretariat for the alliance and infrastructure.
The Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday lamented Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA Government for meeting his Pakistani counterpart saying the current regime wasn’t clear of its policies on neighbor. However, tripling the amount of carbon emissions in India is doing a complete 180 and is going the wrong way. The Pavilion will also have information on the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). He expressed solidarity with France regarding the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, France.
A day after world leaders vowed to unitedly fight climate change, negotiators from 195 countries began marathon talks in Paris yesterday to strike a historic agreement.
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“We can no longer accept this paradox that those who have the most potential for solar energy have only a small share of solar electricity”, Hollande told delegates.
