India against keeping poverty reduction priority out of climate pact
Source: Mint, Date: , 2014
India on Wednesday
reiterated its commitment to “protecting the interests of the poor” at the Lima
Climate Change talks, challenging rich nations who want to keep poverty
eradication out of a list of priorities for developing countries in a new
climate pact to be signed next year in Paris. At Lima, nations were expected to
spell out only the nature of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions
(INDCs) that each country has to give for the new agreement to be signed by
2015-end.