View: Ambition on climate must find place at the Delhi G20 Leaders’ Summit
climate crisis. This makes the G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi this week even more important. Delegates will arrive in a country hit hard by climate extremes this year.
Several parts of India have been reeling under heatwaves and excessive rain. With El Niño building up, the country has witnessed the driest August month since 1901.
The global heat wave that has singed large parts of the world again this year proves that it is vital that we see action and delivery from the world’s top economies in the face of a worsening climate emergency. Their task is clear.
Every country, regardless of wealth, needs a plan against extreme weather events, lost livelihoods and forced migration. India’s G20 presidency has already succeeded in establishing a Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group. Among other priorities, it aims for global coverage of early warning systems and mobilising finance to combat disasters.
However, when it comes to climate finance, promises continue to fall short of delivery.
The G20 governments can leverage trillions of dollars in support of the investments required around the world to shift markets towards cleaner energy. Science is unequivocal on the link between lower emissions and protecting communities from devastating heatwaves, storms and drought. It’s thus necessary for the developed nations to make good on their 2009 promise of transferring $100 billion a year to the developing world to mitigate against climate change.
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