No impact on India of US exit from Paris climate deal: Top official

IANS  |  New Delhi 

on Monday asserted that it is not in favour of reopening the accord on Climate Change and said the negotiations on the issue are not facing any adverse impact of the pulling out of it.

"There has been some talk of reopening some of the clauses of the agreement. is not in favour and that is largely accepted. If the is with us, it strengthens the climate change negotiations, but I don't think we're having an adverse impact as far as our negotiations are concerned," Secretary told reporters.

"In all our negotiations that we are having today and tomorrow, the is a part of the negotiation work. They are still with us on the negotiations," he said.

His remarks came at a briefing by the ahead of the first of the starting here on Tuesday.

Mishra also welcomed the announcement to confer with its highest environmental honour, the Champions of Earth award, for his leadership of the and pledge to eliminate single use plastic in by 2022.

"It is a rare honour for India as it's the first time that India is getting an award in Policy Leadership field," he said.

The award was announced on September 26 in and would be given to Modi on Wednesday by UN's António Guterres.

"It is a recognition of India's leadership in environmental field in the last few years," he said.

Mishra added that India was steadily moving in the direction of its commitment to have 175 gigawatt of being produced in India by 2022, and added that having 100 GW of solar power was a major part of that.

External Affairs Ministry's said the award, to be jointly given to Modi and French Emmanuel Macron, was a "global recognition of work done by India especially in realm of solar power and renewable energy".

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First Published: Mon, October 01 2018. 19:04 IST