While addressing the UNGA’s General Debate of the Second Committee on ‘Crisis, Resilience and Recovery — Accelerating Progress towards the 2030 Agenda’, India highlighted that to achieve the target of Net-Zero emissions by 2050 the developed countries must do a ‘Net-Minus’.
The statement was issued after U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reminded the nations that carbon emissions must be reduced to half by 2030 and Net-Zero to be achieved by 2050 to reach the Paris Agreement goals.
India’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. Ambassador T.S. Tirumurti stated that India is committed to achieving its climate goals & India is the only country among G20, which is on track to achieve Paris commitments.
“If the developed countries are only doing individual Net-Zeros, we are moving farther away from achieving the Paris targets. And equally, the developed countries should first need to show that they are on course for achieving their 2030 commitments, before we discuss 2050,” he said.