India’s special envoy says India’s resolve to fight climate change should not be confused (File)
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On Monday, India voted against a draft United Nations Security Council resolution relating climate change to global security challenges, arguing that the move attempts to undermine international security. consensus reached at the recently concluded Glasgow Summit.
“India is second to none when it comes to climate action and climate justice, but the Security Council is not the place to discuss both issues. In fact, the effort to do so seems to be being worked on. motivated by a desire to appropriately shirk responsibility, forum and divert the world’s attention away from their unwillingness to distribute where they are concerned,” said India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dr. Tirumurti said.
“Today’s UNSC resolution attempts to undermine the hard-won consensus we reached in Glasgow. This resolution will only sow the seeds of discord among the larger members of the United Nations,” he said. told members of the United Nations Security Council to explain the decision to vote against the draft resolution in this powerful 15-member body of the United Nations.
Negotiators from nearly 200 countries accepted a new climate agreement following the COP26 summit in Glasgow last month, which recognized India’s intervention in the world as “declining” rather than “declining” must “get rid of” fossil fuels.
Campaigned jointly by Niger and Ireland, the draft resolution calls on United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “to integrate climate-related security risks as a central component of comprehensive conflict prevention strategies .” The resolution was vetoed by Russia, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
Voting against the resolution, Mr. Tirumurti said that India’s determination to fight climate change should not be confused.
“We will always stand for real climate action and climate justice seriously. We will always speak out for the benefit of the developing world, including Africa and the Sahel region,” he said. And we will do so in the right place – UNFCCC.”
The resolution sends the wrong message to developing countries, he asserted, that instead of addressing their concerns and holding developed countries accountable to meet their commitments under the UNFCCC. , “we are willing to be divided and watched under the guise of security. This resolution is a step back from our collective resolve to fight climate change.”
It seeks to delegate that responsibility to an agency that neither operates by consensus nor reflects the interests of developing countries, he added.
“India has no choice but to vote against,” he said.
Decisions on climate change are sought, he said, to be taken outside of the broader international community represented in the UNFCCC and instead given to the Security Council.
“Ironically, many UNSC members have been major contributors to climate change due to emissions in the past. If the Security Council really takes responsibility for this, then some countries will be free to decide on all climate-related issues, said the senior Indian diplomat.
“We recognize the fact that climate change is already affecting people’s lives and possibly even exacerbating conflicts in the Sahel and other parts of Africa,” he said.
“The many projects in those geographies are testament to our sincerity. But seeing conflict through the lens of climate change is misleading. Over-simplifying the causes of conflict. will not help solve them; worse, it can be misleading This is why India supported a draft focusing only on the Sahel, but this was not considered by the funders for reasons because they know best,” he said.
He also asserted that developed countries must provide climate finance as early as $1 trillion, arguing that climate finance should be monitored with the same diligence as climate mitigation.
“To move forward unequivocally, access to sound climate finance is crucial. Developed countries must provide climate finance as early as $1 trillion,” he said. speak.
It is essential that climate finance be monitored with the same diligence as climate mitigation, and the reality is that developed countries have fallen short of their promises, he said.
“This is particularly important to recognize because today’s effort to link climate to security actually seeks to mask the lack of progress on key issues in the UNFCCC (Convention) process,” he said. United Nations framework on climate change).
The Indian envoy also expressed concern about the manner in which this matter was brought before the Security Council.
“For nearly three decades, all member states have been collectively bargaining and agreeing on an equitable and elaborate architecture to combat all aspects of climate change; while arriving at extensive unanimous decision, we tried to match each other’s interests and specific country circumstances.In fact, this comprehensive process was carried out within the framework of the UNFCCC led by the United Nations with the participation of all member states,” he said.
In turn, the UNFCCC was informed by the preferences of its members. It addresses both the immediate needs of the devs and the commitments of the devs. It seeks a balance between mitigation, adaptation, financing, technology transfer, capacity building, etc. In fact, it takes a holistic view of combating climate change in an equitable and equitable manner. equal, he said.
“Therefore, we need to ask ourselves: what can we do under this draft resolution that we cannot achieve under the UNFCCC process? Commitments made within the UNFCCC framework for action specific climate?” he said.
He added that the honest answer is that there is no real claim to this resolution except for the purpose of bringing climate change under the direction of the Security Council and the reason for that is that now Decisions can be made without the participation of most developing countries and without recognized consensus.
And all of this can be done in the name of keeping international peace and security.
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