India hopes to summit climate targets before Paris summit

India has assured the international community that it is in advanced stages of formulating its post-2020 climate change targets and hopes to submit them to the UN ahead of the high-level conference in Paris later this year.

“Our domestic preparations for formulating the INDCs (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions) are at an advanced stage and we hope to submit the same well-ahead of the Paris COP (Conference of the Parties),” Joint Secretary (Climate Change) in the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Ravi Shankar Prasad said at a high-level event on climate change here on June 29.

Prasad said India has gone through an extensive process of multi-stakeholder consultations, which included the central ministries, provincial governments, civil society, think-tanks and media in the process of formulating the INDCs.

Assuring of India’s readiness to contribute and play its due role in reaching a meaningful, equitable and effective agreement at Paris, Prasad said “we strongly believe that developing countries can do much more if they are enabled in their efforts by provision of finance, technology development and transfer and capacity building support from developed countries.

“Such an international compact of cooperation would help us tread a path that is urgently required to address climate change and its adverse effects,” he said.

The Paris agreement must also deliver on an ambitious pre-2020 outcome under the Convention and this will help build trust and confidence in the process leading <g data-gr-id="14">upto</g> the post-2020 period.