India will strongly take up the issue of “lack” of concrete plan on the mobilisation of USD 100 billion pledged by the developed countries to help the developing world tackle climate change at UN this week and urge them to emulate its policy of levying cess over coal to raise the fund.
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said it will be raised at the high-level signing ceremony of Paris Agreement, convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on April 22 in New York and also during the Major Economic Forum meeting on April 23.
He said during the meeting, India will also emphasise that the developed countries also need to declare their enhanced action plan to fight cliamte change between the period of 2016-2020.
“Mobilising USD 100 billion is still only under discussions. There is no concrete action plan laid out. We will ask that as in Paris you (developed countries) have agreed to mobilise USD 100 billion dollars to the developing world, the roadmap must be now clear.
“We have levied USD 6 (Rs 400) on coal production which is the highest in the world. We are taking mitigation action. If developed world follows India, 100 billion dollars can be generated more easily. If they follow India by taxing their own coal production, funds can be generated,” Javadekar said.
“We expect that developed world must now declare their enhanced commitments for second Kyoto protocol period which is from 2016-2020. Developed world needs to declare their enhanced action plan.
“We (India) are doing our bit even though we (as a developing country) were not supposed to take action before 2020. India is leading by example as to how there can be mitigation and adaption action. The developed world if they are not declaring, that will unfortunate. We will emphasis this,” he said.
Noting that all the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, China and India) will sign the agreement on April 22, Prakash Javadekar said more than 130 countries are expected to sign it.
