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Malaysia not involved in US-led climate summit as it is not among top greenhouse gas emitters: Environment Minister
The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jan 11, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng)
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will not be involved in a virtual leaders summit on climate change led by US President Joe Biden, as the event is for big economies that collectively contribute to 80 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, said environment minister Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man.
Tuesday, 06 Apr 2021 11:56 PM MYT
Environment and Water Minister Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said the main objective of the conference was to encourage large economies that collectively contribute 80 per cent of greenhouse gases, to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 Malaysia was not invited to the Leaders’ Summit on Climate in the United States (US) on April 22 and 23, as it not categorised as a country vulnerable to climate change.
Environment and Water Minister Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said the main objective of the conference was to encourage large economies that collectively contribute 80 per cent of greenhouse gases, to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Along with comparable levels of commitments there need to be equally comparable metrics for well-being
Global transformation is affecting the planet. But there is no uniform transformation across the world. Global temperature increased sharply only after 1981 with little contribution from the developing countries as their industrialisation and urbanisation had yet to begin.
In 2015, at the UN General Assembly when the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 was adopted and at the Paris Conference, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed a reframing of climate change to climate justice, arguing that just when countries such as India were becoming major industrial and middle class nations, they should not pay the price for the pollution caused by the West. The Paris Agreement, explicitly recognises that peaking will take longer for such countries and is to be achieved in the context of “sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty”.
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