Indian Minister on Net Zero

Calls 2050 Net Zero Targets ‘Pie in the Sky’

Matt McGrath, BBC (April 01): Indian Minister Raj Kumar Singh during the IEA/COP26 Net Zero Summit: “2060 sounds good, but it is just that, it sounds good… I would call it, and I’m sorry to say this, but it is just a pie in the sky.” To the discomfort of his fellow panelists, Mr. Singh singled out developed countries where per capita emissions are much higher than in India.

“You have countries whose per capita emissions are four or five or 12 times the world average,” the Minister said. “The question is when are they going to come down? What we hear is that by 2050 or 2060 we will become carbon neutral, 2060 is far away and if the people emit at the rate they are emitting the world won’t survive, so what are you going to do in the next five years that’s what the world wants to know.”

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