Union Minister Piyush Goyal criticised developed nations and the EU for failing to honour climate finance pledges to the Global South. At the Berlin Global Dialogue, he highlighted Western nations' historical emissions, India's low per capita carbon footprint and its rapid clean energy transition.

Berlin: Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal launched a critique of the developed world's track record on climate obligations, questioning wealthy nations and the European Union for failing to deliver on their climate finance commitments to the Global South.

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Addressing a roundtable at the Berlin Global Dialogue, Goyal called out developed nations for historically contributing the lion's share of global carbon emissions while reneging on their pledged financial and technological support to developing and vulnerable nations under the Paris Agreement.

"At the Paris climate conference in 2015, when the whole world came together, it was Prime Minister Modi who brought the Global South together and encouraged countries to commit to addressing climate change at COP21. It was agreed that the developed countries, who have enjoyed the fruits of messing up the climate for so many decades, will pay a greater price, and will support the developing and less developed countries, as well as island nations in the Pacific and the Caribbean...Just $100 billion a year. That was the commitment," Goyal said.