India's Climate Challenge: Stepping Up Global Efforts Post-US Paris Exit

A parliamentary panel urges India to increase its efforts in climate change initiatives following the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. Highlighting India's role as a major global player, the panel emphasizes collaboration with other nations as critical to successfully addressing climate change impacts.

India must enhance its climate change efforts in response to the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, according to a report by a parliamentary panel. The panel's findings, presented to the Rajya Sabha, emphasize India's significant role on the global stage due to its large population.

The report, authored by the 31-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change, chaired by BJP's Bhubaneswar Kalita, stresses the importance of international cooperation. It underlines that slow progress in climate summits necessitates heightened collaboration.

The withdrawal of the US from key climate agreements has created challenges in climate funding for developing nations. Despite the geopolitical issues undermining climate action, the panel calls for collective efforts to fulfill the Paris Agreement's temperature targets, ensuring substantial climate financing and advancing national climate plans.

(With inputs from agencies.)