Paris climate deal needs solidarity on loss and damage

India has stressed that developed countries can not undermine the core principles of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities in arriving at a climate deal.

“My message to world leaders is clear: Success in Paris depends on you”, Ban said.

Next week, the heads of 190 countries will gather at the United Nations’ climate change conference in Paris, which is knows as the Conference of the Parties (COP) 21.

Negotiators from almost 200 countries will converge in Paris to hammer out a global pact to reduce the world’s emissions to prevent the average global temperature from rising beyond 2 degrees C. Scientists believe global warming beyond that level is likely to exacerbate current trends in extreme weather events, sea-level rise, droughts and water stress in different parts of the world leading to wide-ranging adverse impacts on crops, economies and human society. “India has never been a blocking country and has been a facilitating country”.

In the build-up to Paris, countries announced the contributions that they are willing to make to combat global climate change, based on their own national circumstances.

Such reactions are particularly relevant in the wake of comments by US Secretary of State John Kerry that in climate change negotiations in Paris, India would be “a challenge”. The hope is that they can strike a new deal on greenhouse gas emissions, to take effect from 2020 when current worldwide commitments run out.

“It is important that COP21 produces a binding agreement for mitigating climate change pollution signed by all countries”, said Ramanathan.

“We wanted to know how the commitments would play out from a risk management perspective”, EPA economist and lead study author Allen Fawcett said in a statement.

On Thursday, Abe also pledged to contribute $1.5 billion to the United Nations-backed Green Climate Fund, adding that his government would assist vulnerable nations by promoting the “development of revolutionary technology”. “We’ve got a lot of focus on India right now to try to bring them along”.

“The 2015 Paris Agreement must ensure that funding to address climate change is scaled up, adequate, new and additional, predictable, equitable, sustainable, to support, inter alia, adaptation, loss and damage and mitigation, on a scale commensurate with the needs of ACP countries, especially those particularly vulnerable”, the group stated.

China’s transformative economic boom has mainly been fuelled by coal, which provides most of its energy, and it plans to move 250 million more people from the countryside to cities in the next 10 years – creating more buildings and auto users.