Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said that India cannot accept any international agreement without equity and insisted on equitable access to global atmospheric space.
“This is a matter of survival," he told a press interaction on the opening day of the two-day conference on “Global Carbon Budgets and Equity in Climate Change" here.
Organised by Professor T. Jayaraman, chairperson of the Centre for Science, Technology and Society, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF), the conference will debate carbon budgeting and the utilisation of global carbon space, presented in a paper titled “Meeting equity in a finite carbon world" by Tejal Kanitkar, Professor Jayaraman and other experts. Read the full report here.
Source: Special Correspondent, The Hindu, Mumbai
