On 7th November 2022, the second day of the COP27 at Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, India's Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav spoke at two separate events – Middle Eastern Green Summit 2022 and the UN Secretary-General High-Level Round Table.
UN Secretary-General High-Level Round
Table
At the UN Secretary General's High-Level
Round Table, Mr. Yadav announced India's full support towards Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres' agenda for achieving Early Warnings for All, which intends to
use high-level communications systems to allow communities to prepare for
hazardous climate events.
The Minister said “We fully support the
Secretary General’s agenda to achieve Early Warnings for All. The global pace
of climate mitigation is not enough to contain the rate of climate change.
There is an urgent need for the world to acknowledge the cascading natural
hazards that cause substantial losses around the world.”
The Middle Eastern Green Initiative
Summit 2022
He highlighted the measures India has taken
towards emissions reduction over the last year and also acknowledged the
initiatives taken by other countries towards reducing emissions and the
innovations made towards green technology and green policy.
"Through the National Hydrogen
Mission, India has moved towards an environment-friendly energy source. This
will help India and many countries of the world to achieve their goal of net
zero. India has become a prime example of how progress and nature can go hand
in hand.", the Minister said.
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Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master, it was rightly said. Electronic devices have grown into an inevitable part of our daily lives.
