Union Environment, Climate Change and Forest Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar has said, people and industries are key drivers in our efforts towards mitigating the climate change.

 

Voluntary participation of industries, crucial towards low carbon industries transition: Shri Prakash Javadekar

Union Environment, Climate Change and Forest Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar has said, people and industries are key drivers in our efforts towards mitigating the climate change. 

The Minister speaking at the high level segment of the Industry transition leadership summit pointed out that industry contributes directly around 30 percent of the global CO2 emissions, and transition of hard to abate industries towards low carbon pathways is key to combat climate change.

Shri Javadekar informed that CO2 emissions have been cut down by top industries in the country voluntarily without any diktat and also renewable energy consumption is being actively promoted in the country by several companies. 

"This is the way forward and we need to encourage voluntary participation of the industries towards cutting down carbon emissions.", added the environment Minister.

Speaking on the issue of finance Shri Javadekar said, funds should be mobilised at a larger scale and use of technology has to be there to deal with climate change issue. 

He said affordable technologies and reserach studies need to be shared with developing countries so that they can work in the direction of saving environment. 

Shri Javadekar also highlighted that,countries must not forget that every Climate Action has a cost and if we consider Climate Change as a disaster, then nobody should profit from this disaster.The Minister said that this will be tantamount to a kind of double taxation on the poor of the developing countries, which is not Climate Justice.