India backs Green groups' walkout from climate talks

Hours after major NGOs walked out of the UN Climate Change conference, India today said it fully shared the sentiments of the civil society and asked the developed nations to act in combating climate change.
"It is a matter of deep concern to my country that there has been absolutely no progress in any of the issues of interest to developing countries in this Conference of Parties, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said.
"Discussions on crucial issues of direct importance to developing countries like Finance, Technology and Loss and Damage have remained deadlocked due to lack of will by developed country Parties," she said in a statement here.

The NGOs staged the walk out at the conference of the representative ministers of the 195 countries at the UN Climate Change Conference here in the Polish capital in the backdrop of some developed countries actually reneging on their commitments or decreasing them.
"I fully share the sentiments of the NGOs and call on developed countries to show their determination to implement commitments and increase their ambition to address the mitigation gap and provide enhanced means of implementation and ensure that the negotiations reach a meaningful conclusion in the Conference of Parties," Natarajan said.
Ambition in the climate change context is the voluntary submission of emission cut targets committed by countries.

NGOs from across the world, including India, staged a walk out from the UN Climate Change conference, accusing the developed world of "wasting precious time to save the world".

Sanjay Vashist of the green NGO Climate Action Network South Asia said his group with global civil society movements walked out from Warsaw COP out of frustration from the empty talks to address climate challenges in developing countries where people are dying due to cyclones like Phalin and Hayain and flash floods like in Uttarakhand.
He also accused the developed countries like Australia and Japan and other developed countries of "wasting precious time" to save the World.

Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, said: "The Polish government has done its best to turn these talks into a showcase for the coal industry."
"Along with backsliding by Japan, Australia and Canada, and the lack of meaningful leadership from other countries, governments here have delivered a slap in the face to those suffering as a result of dangerous climate change," Naidoo said.