Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupendra Yadav participated in the high level meeting of BRICS on Climate Change on Friday.
Addressing the meeting, the Minister highlighted the relevance of the platform to jointly address climate change, to explore and achieve approaches to accelerate the low carbon and resilient transition. permanent recovery and development.
The BRICS High Level Meeting was chaired by H.E. Mr. Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China and was attended by Environment Ministers from BRICS countries including Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa.
The Union Minister, in his address, underscored India’s commitment to strong climate action, including promoting sustainable lifestyles based on careful consumption and waste reduction.
Minister gave information BRICS Ministerial For example, India is leading. “We have taken several strong steps in the areas of renewable energy, sustainable housing, building carbon sinks through additional forest and tree cover, transition to sustainable transport, e-mobility, mobilizing the private sector to make climate commitments, etc. picked up.”
Yadav said India has continued to progressively reduce economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions.
“Ambitious implementation of climate actions by developing countries is ambitious and dependent on adequate” delivery of climate financetechnology transfer, and other implementation support, as mandated by the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement.”
The Minister expressed optimism about the distribution of climate finance in accordance with the Glasgow Decision and the Climate Finance Delivery Plan issued by the COP 26 Presidency.