Climate targets should be revised upwards to transform India’s situation: Ex-bureaucrat CK Mishra

NEW DELHI: (Mar 27) India’s climate targets have been ambitious since the Paris Agreement and there is an inclination to go further, but transforming the country’s situation may require raising the targets higher, a top former bureaucrat has said.

Speaking to PTI, C K Mishra, former secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, said that climate targets should not be set only to meet global commitments, but with India’s own environmental needs in mind.

“Whatever India committed in Paris has by and large been achieved. We have shown inclination to increase our ambition this time, but if we really want to change things dramatically, these targets may have to be revised upwards,” Mishra, who previously led Indian negotiations at United Nations Climate Change Conferences as secretary, said on Thursday.