The readiness of India to share climate-related technologies would be critical in attempts to reverse the global climate disaster, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland said as the COP28 climate meeting began in Dubai. Baroness Scotland, who is leading the Commonwealth delegation from London to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's 2023 Conference of the Parties (COP), met Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Wednesday at the India Global Forum's Climate for Business (ClimB) Forum in Dubai ahead of COP28.

 

They discussed the climate work related to the 56 member countries of the Commonwealth, India's innovative climate solutions and ways to deepen collaboration, as per economic times. 

 

"I really commend India for its dedication, its commitment, and its energy to climate action, but most of all, India's willingness to share the climate-related technology that we are all going to need in order to reverse the climate crisis in which we now find ourselves," Baroness Scotland said in a statement after the meeting.

 

"This COP is perhaps the seminal moment that most of us have been waiting for because it's the implementation COP. To have the 56 countries and the Commonwealth here together fighting for the same issue is fundamentally important," she said.

 

The annual COP conference, which runs till December 12, comes only months after Commonwealth environment ministers agreed to speeding climate action at their debut meeting in New York, which coincided with the UN General Assembly. Baroness Scotland's team has stated that she will make at least 20 speeches during the COP28 meeting to push negotiators to produce a revolutionary conclusion without more delays or excuses.