“Today, we are facing climate change, and we know this is caused by our use of energy,” Mr. Bekri declared. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Indian minister of state for commerce and industry, said the country was ready for a bigger global role in mitigating climate change. India, Ms. Sitharaman said, is “no longer on the fringe” of climate change policies and technologies. The lure of a potentially huge market for clean energy and other technologies that would help mitigate climate change was a driving force, analysts said. They are also motivated by the risks posed by rising seas, extreme weather and other consequences of unmitigated climate change.

Source: New York Times January 21, 2017 17:23 UTC