'India playing pro-active role in dealing with climate change'

India is playing a pro-active role in coordinating the developing world ahead of UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in December, and has set an example for the developed world by taking pre-2020 emission reduction actions, the government today said.
"We want Paris to succeed in mitigating the challenges of climate change and India is playing its pro-active role in coordinating the developing world."
"We have taken pre-2020 actions, though we were not mandated for. Now we are asking developed world to take pre-2020 action with more ambitious targets," Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar said while addressing a press conference here.

India has proposed separate brainstorming sessions to sort out contentious issues such as pre-2020 action, finance, technology, legal nature of agreement and differentiation before Paris, he said.
He said India played an effective role in bringing developing countries together at a Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru in December last year, held to negotiate towards a global climate agreement.
"India played an effective and proactive role in the climate change dialogue at Lima to bring developing world together and to arrive at a consensus that Paris agreement will be based on the principles of UNFCCC, wherein equity, CBDR (Common But Differentiated Responsibility) and 'Polluter to Pay' principles are bed rocked into it.

He said India is taking ambitious pre-2020 actions and is asking developed world to walk the talk.