Environment ministers from G20 nations failed to agree on peaking global emissions by 2025 and other crucial issues to address the global climate crisis at their meeting in India on Friday.
>The discussions with China, Saudi Arabia, and on climate issues with Russia had been “complicated”, he added.
>Major oil producers fear the impact of drastic mitigation on their economies, and Russia and Saudi Arabia were blamed for the lack of progress in Goa.
>Reports of Saudi and Chinese resistance, he added, “fly in the face of their claims of defending the interests of developing countries”.
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>The discussions with China, Saudi Arabia, and on climate issues with Russia had been “complicated”, he added.
>Major oil producers fear the impact of drastic mitigation on their economies, and Russia and Saudi Arabia were blamed for the lack of progress in Goa.
>Reports of Saudi and Chinese resistance, he added, “fly in the face of their claims of defending the interests of developing countries”.
Why are we even consulting with oil barons on the Environment in 2023?
Won’t someone please think of the poor poor billionaires?