India strongly raising issue of climate justice with developed countries: PM
   Date :06-Jun-2023

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■ Delhi Bureau and Agencies :
 
NEW DELHI, 
 
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said developing and underdeveloped countries are paying the price for the“wrong policies” of some developed nations, and asserted that India has raised the issue of climate justice with every such advanced country. In his video message at a World Environment Day event here, Modi said for the protection of the world climate, it is important that all countries think, rising above vested interests.
 
“For a long time, the model of development in big and advanced countries was contradictory. In this developmental model, the thinking was that we first develop our country then we can think about the environment,” the PrimeMinister said. “With this, they achieved thegoals of development, but theworld’s environment had topay the price for their development. Today also, the developing and underdevelopedcountries of the world are paying the price for the wrong policies of some developed countries,” he said. For decades, no one wasthere to object to this attitudeof some developed countries, Modi said.
 
“I am happy that India has raised the question of climate justice withall these countries,” he said. In the thousands of years old Indian culture, there is nature as well as progress, Modi said as he credited this to the country’s attention to ecology and economy. The Prime Minister said as India is investing unprecedentedly in its infrastructure, it is focusing equally on the environment. Talking about boosting economy and safeguarding ecology,hegavetheexamples of expansion of 4G and 5G connectivityononehandand the increase in the country’s forest cover on the other.
 
He said while India built 4 crore houses for the poor, there has been a record increase in the number of wildlife sanctuaries as well as wildlife in India. Modi also talked about the Jal Jeevan Mission and the construction of 50,000 ‘Amrit Sarovars’ for water security, India becoming the fifth largesteconomyintheworld, joining the top five countries in terms of renewable energy, increasing agricultural exports, and also running a campaignforblending20per cent ethanol in petrol.