India has expressed its reservation over the lack of equity in the rules relating to global stock-take in the rulebook that implements the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. It is the basic principle of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement along with the common but differentiated responsibilities,” he said. “The entire global stock-take exercise will be lopsided if the process, input, the technical assessment and output of the global stock-take does not fully address equity. The talks finally ended with the 133-page Paris rulebook being unanimously adopted in the Polish city of Katowice. Also read | Some countries unhappy with Paris rulebook, say it doesn’t mention urgency of climate changeFirst Published: Dec 16, 2018 09:20 IST

Source: Hindustan Times December 16, 2018 02:48 UTC