00:01And Goyal puts Europe on the spot over climate crisis.
00:05Piyush Goyal calls out developed nations over climate bill.
00:09India's minister says Europe caused the mess Global South has to pay.
00:16Exposes developed world's unfulfilled climate pledge.
00:20Piyush Goyal says $100 billion were promised for climate change mitigation
00:26and there has been zero delivery from Europe and the West.
00:32Calls out EU's climate hypocrisy.
00:35Says Europe's climate accountability is under fire as India's minister
00:40challenges Europe's moral authority on climate.
00:45He in fact says calls for Europe to own your carbon legacy.
00:51Polluters must shoulder the climate costs.
00:54Remember this has been a huge debate in the world on the global geopolitics
01:01as the Global South has been calling for the West, for the developed countries
01:07to pay for climate change.
01:09Piyush Goyal once again saying rich nations have broken their climate promises.
01:15Their promises are under spotlight.
01:18In fact he's questioned the EU's commitment to climate justice.
01:22India's minister Piyush Goyal flags climate change burden on developing nations.
01:29He says India's has low emissions, Europe has a much bigger footprint
01:35and India's development must not be penalized
01:39because India is already delivering on clean energy
01:43even as rich nations are still to deliver funds.
01:48Piyush is joining me on this story.
01:50Piyush, I beg your pardon.
01:53Let's listen in to what was said.
02:00Who's responsible for this mess in the first place?
02:04In the?
02:04Where did this ozone layer get damaged?
02:08Who sent all that carbon up there?
02:10All of us.
02:12No, I'm sorry.
02:13I support 17% of the world's population.
02:17My contribution to that carbon up there is less than 3%.
02:22You support probably 3% or 4% of the world's population.
02:27And your contribution to that carbon of the mess is 6%.
02:33Is?
02:336%.
02:34I'm sorry, madam.
02:35No, no, he's talking about cumulative.
02:37Ah, cumulative.
02:37But that's what matters.
02:39It's humongous.
02:41Probably near 20%.
02:44So the problem was caused by you for good reasons.
02:49You were growing your economies.
02:51You wanted low-cost carbon-based energy.
02:54You blew coal day in and day out so that your energy cost remains low.
03:00But you is not only Europe.
03:01It's also the U.S., right?
03:02It's also the United States, right?
03:04You're talking about you, you, you, you, you, you, that way, right?
03:12This is the fairness argument.
03:15And it's a fairness argument.
03:18And even today, as we sit here, my contribution on a per capita basis to the carbon emissions
03:25is probably less than 10% or 15% of what you do, even today.
03:31The waste in Europe, the per capita damage to the ozone layer or carbon emission is probably
03:43seven or eight times per capita what the Indian person does.
03:49It's not per capita.
03:50It's always per capita.
03:51Well, I'm supporting 17% of the world population, and I am more conscious of waste, more conscious
04:02of circular economy, more conscious that I have to also meet the needs of 1.4 billion people.
04:09I have to meet their energy needs.
04:11I have to meet their food needs.
04:13I have to be secure as a nation.
04:16Despite all of that, we have one of the fastest growing clean energy programs.
04:25And that was India's Commerce Minister Piyush Gowal speaking in Berlin on climate justice and
04:33the responsibility of the European Union to pay for mitigation costs, to pay the carbon
04:40tax, really.
04:41Because remember, India has been talking about this for a very long time.
04:46India and the Global South have been saying that it is the developed countries, it is
04:51the EU, it is the US, it is the developed countries which created most of the problem when it comes
04:58to carbon emissions, when it comes to damage to the ozone layer.
05:02And that climate finance that had been accepted as a policy and long promised climate finance
05:12support is not coming.
05:14Once again, India's Commerce Minister talking about how the Indian population even today is
05:21contributing much less to the environmental damage than the developed countries who are responsible
05:29for paying.
