"Adaptation Not Just Mitigation": PM Modi's Mantra At Big Climate Meet
NDTV
The world's response to the climate crisis must involve adaptation and not just mitigation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the COP26 summit in UK's Glasgow on Monday, in an address that was meant to underline India's formal position climate action agenda and lay out the best practices and achievements in the sector.
"Adaptation has not received the kind of importance in global climate debate that mitigation has. This is an injustice to those developing nations that are more impacted by climate change. We will need to make adaptation the key component of our development policies and projects," he said in a 2-minute speech.
"Just like in India, climate is a big challenge for agriculture sector for most developing countries. There are changes in the cropping patterns, untimely rains and floods, or crops are destroyed by regular typhoons," PM Modi said.
He listed how the Indian government's projects like Tapwater for All, Clean India Mission and Clean Cooking Fuel for all "have not only provided adaptation benefits to our citizens in need, but also improved their quality of life".
