Question raised in Lok Sabha on International Agreements on Climate Change, 26/04/2016
Question raised in Lok Sabha on International Agreements on Climate Change, 26/04/2016. The Government of India has been successful in establishing bilateral relations with several countries on areas of environment, clean technology and climate change. Some of the major agreements in this area include agreement on cooperation on addressing climate change between India and China signed in October 2009, Joint Statement between India and United Kingdom on Energy and Climate Change to promote secure, affordable and sustainable supplies of energy signed in November 2015. Further, India is a party to number of Conventions, Protocols, International Treaties, Multilateral Environment Agreements like United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete Ozone layer. India has signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change on 22 April 2016, which is a milestone in global climate cooperation.