Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, addressing the high-level segment of the COP30 climate summit in Belem, Brazil, on Monday (November 17), said climate change was “real and imminent”, driven by unsustainable patterns of growth and development.

Yadav said India will submit its revised Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the 2035 period by December, and called on developed nations to achieve net-zero targets well ahead of their current deadlines.

Climate change is 'real and imminent'

At a separate COP30 event, he stressed the importance of global partnerships to speed up industrial transition and announced international initiatives aimed at generating value from industrial by-products.

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