India flags issues over wealthy nations’ efforts to increase mitigation to agriculture 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: India has opposed the developed world’s efforts to increase the scope of mitigation to agriculture on the ongoing UN local weather summit in Egypt, saying wealthy nations don’t need to cut back emissions by altering their life and are “searching for cheaper solutions abroad”, sources stated on Thursday.

Expressing concern over the draft determination textual content on the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture, India stated the developed international locations are blocking a pro-poor and pro-farmer determination by insisting on increasing the scope for mitigation to agriculture, thereby compromising the very basis of meals safety on the earth, a supply within the Indian delegation stated.

“At every climate summit, the developed countries wish to change the goalposts of the international climate regime using diversionary means to dilute their responsibilities arising from their historical emissions.”

“Annex-I countries, it may be recalled, owe the world a carbon debt of 790 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (GtCO2), which is worth USD 79 trillion, even at the modest price of USD 100 per tonnes,” India stated.

“This year too, the developed countries are distracting attention from their excessive GHG emissions by emphasising reduction in agriculture emissions which are ‘survival emissions’ and not ‘luxury emissions’,” it stated.

India made it clear that the world is going through a local weather disaster at this time due to the extreme historic cumulative emissions by the developed nations.

It stated these nations are “unable to reduce their emissions domestically by any worthwhile change in their lifestyles. Rather, they are searching for cheaper solutions abroad”.

In most growing international locations internationally, agriculture is practised by small and marginal farmers who until exhausting, toil exhausting and courageous the vagaries of utmost climate and local weather variability in addition to the extra stress of local weather change.

“By seeking to extend the scope of mitigation to agriculture, the developed countries are wanting the world agriculture, lands and seascapes to become a site of mitigation for their profligate, excessive emissions,” it stated.

India stated there aren’t any further finance gives on the desk by developed international locations and the prevailing interim working entities like Global Environment Facility and Green Climate Fund are being coaxed to deal with their extreme emissions by turning agriculture right into a web site of mitigation.

As is well-known to the world and understood even in lay parlance, agriculture would be the hardest hit by local weather change and is thus predominantly a web site for adaptation.

South Asia’s historic CO2 cumulative emissions from the pre-industrial interval until 2019 are lower than 4 per cent (together with land use, land-use change and forestry actions), as reported by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), regardless of it being house to nearly one-fourth of humanity.

“India’s per capita annual emissions are, even today, about one-third of the global average. If the entire world were to emit at the same per capita level as India, the best available science tells that there would be no climate crisis,” India stated.

India is amongst these international locations with excessive vulnerability to local weather change. India persistently maintains that agriculture within the growing world is primarily the positioning of adaptation, it stated.

NEW DELHI: India has opposed the developed world’s efforts to increase the scope of mitigation to agriculture on the ongoing UN local weather summit in Egypt, saying wealthy nations don’t need to cut back emissions by altering their life and are “searching for cheaper solutions abroad”, sources stated on Thursday.

Expressing concern over the draft determination textual content on the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture, India stated the developed international locations are blocking a pro-poor and pro-farmer determination by insisting on increasing the scope for mitigation to agriculture, thereby compromising the very basis of meals safety on the earth, a supply within the Indian delegation stated.

“At every climate summit, the developed countries wish to change the goalposts of the international climate regime using diversionary means to dilute their responsibilities arising from their historical emissions.”

“Annex-I countries, it may be recalled, owe the world a carbon debt of 790 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (GtCO2), which is worth USD 79 trillion, even at the modest price of USD 100 per tonnes,” India stated.

“This year too, the developed countries are distracting attention from their excessive GHG emissions by emphasising reduction in agriculture emissions which are ‘survival emissions’ and not ‘luxury emissions’,” it stated.

India made it clear that the world is going through a local weather disaster at this time due to the extreme historic cumulative emissions by the developed nations.

It stated these nations are “unable to reduce their emissions domestically by any worthwhile change in their lifestyles. Rather, they are searching for cheaper solutions abroad”.

In most growing international locations internationally, agriculture is practised by small and marginal farmers who until exhausting, toil exhausting and courageous the vagaries of utmost climate and local weather variability in addition to the extra stress of local weather change.

“By seeking to extend the scope of mitigation to agriculture, the developed countries are wanting the world agriculture, lands and seascapes to become a site of mitigation for their profligate, excessive emissions,” it stated.

India stated there aren’t any further finance gives on the desk by developed international locations and the prevailing interim working entities like Global Environment Facility and Green Climate Fund are being coaxed to deal with their extreme emissions by turning agriculture right into a web site of mitigation.

As is well-known to the world and understood even in lay parlance, agriculture would be the hardest hit by local weather change and is thus predominantly a web site for adaptation.

South Asia’s historic CO2 cumulative emissions from the pre-industrial interval until 2019 are lower than 4 per cent (together with land use, land-use change and forestry actions), as reported by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), regardless of it being house to nearly one-fourth of humanity.

“India’s per capita annual emissions are, even today, about one-third of the global average. If the entire world were to emit at the same per capita level as India, the best available science tells that there would be no climate crisis,” India stated.

India is amongst these international locations with excessive vulnerability to local weather change. India persistently maintains that agriculture within the growing world is primarily the positioning of adaptation, it stated.