India is moving forward towards a green transition says the UK’s top boss for the UN climate talks

With the world’s top emitters announcing their intention to bring down their emissions of greenhouse gases to net zero, the attention is on India, the fourth largest contributor to the world’s annual flow of greenhouse gas emissions, and its plans.

“India is a key country. It is going to be vital in terms of ensuring that we have success on the route to COP26,” said Alok Sharma, UK minister and chair of the 2021 round of UN-sponsored climate talks. With the easing of some of the travel restrictions imposed due to the pandemic, Sharma begun his in-person meetings as part of the UK’s outreach of November meet in Glasgow. India was the first stop in Asia. “I have, as part of the discussions, delivered the same message that I have delivered to every government I have met both virtually and of course now physically in terms of what we are trying to achieve from COP,” Sharma told ET. Four issues make to the COP26 president’s priority list—ambition, adaptation, finance and the completion of the Paris rulebook.