Calls for democratising climate action in a blog article
Photo: @narendramodi / X, previously known as Twitter Ahead of the Group of Twenty (G20) summit scheduled in New Delhi this weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on countries to match climate action ambitions with action on climate finance and transfer of technology.
Many countries of the Global South are at various stages of development and climate action must be a complementary pursuit, the PM wrote on his website on September 6, 2023 in a blog titled, Human-Centric Globalisation: Taking G20 to the Last Mile, Leaving None Behind.
Modi pointed out the challenges ahead due to climate impact and advocated for millets. “Due to the impact of climate change, ensuring food and nutritional security will be crucial. Millets, or Shree Anna, can help with this while also boosting climate-smart agriculture," he said.
He also called for a less “restrictive approach”, asking people to “move away from a purely restrictive attitude of what should not be done, to a more constructive attitude focusing on what can be done to fight climate change”.
“Democratising climate action is the best way to impart momentum to the movement. Just as individuals make daily decisions based on their long-term health, they can make lifestyle decisions based on the impact on the planet’s long-term health," the Prime Minister said.
A global ecosystem for clean and green hydrogen will emerge from India’s G20 presidency, along with a Green Hydrogen Innovation Centre, he further wrote.
The PM also spoke about the United Nations’-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“An interconnected world means our challenges across domains are interlinked. This is the midway year of the 2030 Agenda and many are noting with great concern that the progress on SDGs is off-track. The G20 2023 Action Plan on Accelerating Progress on SDGs will spearhead the future direction of the G20 towards implementing SDGs,” Modi wrote.
Democratising climate action is the best way to impart momentum to the movement, the PM further said in the column. “Just as individuals make daily decisions based on their long-term health, they can make lifestyle decisions based on the impact on the planet’s long-term health,” he wrote.
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