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| India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to address the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, US, Sep 25, 2021. (File photo by=REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Pool) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the COP26 climate summit, his office confirmed on Sunday (Oct 24), in a major boost for the conference that has already been snubbed by key world leaders, AFP reported.
More than 120 world leaders are expected to attend the biggest climate summit since the 2015 Paris talks on Nov 1 to 2, but China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin will be conspicuously absent. Climate envoys from the United States, European Union, and the summit's British organizers have made repeat visits to New Delhi in recent weeks to encourage Modi's government to do more to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Officials have indicated that India, third behind the United States and China as an emitter of greenhouse gases, will make a new offer but they have given no details.
Modi will go to the climate talks in Glasgow after attending the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Rome next weekend where rising temperatures will also be a key issue, his office said in a statement. The International Energy Agency says India now produces the same amount of heat-trapping CO2 as the European Union, though it is two-thirds lower on a per capita basis.
