Climate Changed
India Criticizes Rich Nations on Broken Climate Promises
- 2020 extension of Kyoto Protocol still not ratified by nations
- U.S. role in Paris talks seen as not terribly ‘constructive’
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As negotiators haggle the details of the Paris climate agreement that starts next decade, India is frustrated that rich nations still haven’t fulfilled pledges made in a previous treaty.
“We are very disappointed,” Ravi Prasad, head of the climate change division of India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, said in an interview. “In the pre-2020 period, we have not seen the kind of ambition that was expected” from developed countries, he said.