‘International community must understand that if we bring down India’s emissions it will be good for us globally — we caused the problem, we need to help fix it’


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Arriving in New Delhi from COP27, held at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, Rachel Kyte, Dean, The Fletcher School Tufts University; member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Action; and adviser to the UK government for UN climate negotiations, speaks with Esha Roy about the changing political landscape with regards to climate, advances made at COP27, and India’s G20 presidency. At COP26 in Glasgow, India and China were blamed for pushing “phase-down” instead of “phase out’’ of coal. India has maintained that it is the West’s hypocrisy that brings focus on just coal, and not all fossil fuels....