Asserting that India cannot ignore the neglect of climate finance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said without concrete progress on it, pressuring the developing nations on climate action was 'not justice"'. He called on the developed nations to set a target of providing at least 1% of their GDP for financing green projects in the developing world.
Addressing the G20 Summit Session on 'Climate Change and Environment', Prime Minister Modi said that by forgetting climate justice, 'we are not only doing injustice to the developing countries, but we are betraying entire humanity'.
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Union Minister Piyush Goyal too urged developed and rich nations to do more to tackle climate change in his speech at the G20.
He said that developed nations that have enjoyed the fruits of energy should cut their emissions in order to achieve net zero faster, in order to help the developing nations.