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Trump makes unexpected visit to climate summit as Modi speaks

  •   Mon, Sep 23 2019 10:07:15 PM

United Nations, Sep 23 (IANS): Did Prime Minister Narendra Modi influence US President Donald Trump to listen to the message of fighting climate change?

Trump, who was supposed to boycott the Climate Action Summit, unexpectedly dropped in to hear Modi on Monday.

The US President who had participated in the 'Howdy, Modi!' rally in Houston on Sunday and effusively praised his leadership, had scheduled a meeting on Global Call to Protect Religious Freedom to around the time the summit was still going on.

The religious freedom meeting was seen as an attempt by Trump to draw attention away from the climate summit.

But continuing their friendliness from Sunday, he stopped by as Modi was speaking.

He heard Modi say that not enough was being done to fight climate change.

"Various efforts are being made by different countries to fight climate change but it has to be accepted that if we have to overcome a serious challenge like climate change, what we are doing at the moment is just not enough," he said.

Trump, who is considered a climate change sceptic, has withdrawn the US from the Paris climate change accord and rolled back several measures taken by previous US administrations and states to fight global warming.

Approach to climate change is one of the areas of difference between Modi and Trump.
  

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  • ad, managluru

    Tue, Sep 24 2019

    Talk is cheap and the talk gets even cheaper when addressing UNGC on climate Change. China, US and India are the highest contributors of carbon dioxide from fuel emissions in the world. I would call it climate terrorism and they are concerned about radical islamic terrorism.

    Sure India is not doing enough chants Modi and the hypocrisy is India signing Energy deals with US and Russia and the recent investment by Aramco in Reliance is likely add more emissions in the atmosphere and pollution. Living in major cities of India is like living in combustion chambers.

    The recent fall in auto sales is a good thing for the country at least some relief in terms of reduction in emissions.
    The Make in India chant further adds to the climate chaos.
    Why are these hypocratic leaders stand on the podium and open their mouths to the world that they are concerned about climate change?
    Do they mean what they say? Or this is just hog wash.

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