UN climate meet: CSE urges India to submit pledges

In the <g data-gr-id="16">run up</g> to UN climate change conference in Paris later this year, a green body on Wednesday urged India to work with developing nations and push for a "fair and equitable" global deal which saves the world from catastrophic climate impacts.

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has asked the country to submit two Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)- conditional and unconditional, to the global body.

INDCs are voluntary pledges that countries are making to cut carbon pollution ahead of the big climate change meeting in Paris at the end of the year. The meeting is supposed to come out with a new global deal to tackle climate change from 2020 onwards.

"India should put out INDCs that are based on equity and fairness. This is the only way we shame big polluters to reduce their emissions and make them in line with the planetary limits," said Sunita Narain, Director General, CSE. Under the unconditional INDCs, CSE has recommended that India should agree to do all it can with its own resources and it should be based on principles of equity. It said that India has already announced ambitious solar and wind energy targets and under Green India Mission.