Petersburg Climate Dialogue 2023

Context: The Petersburg Dialogue on Climate Change was hosted in Berlin, Germany from May 2-3, 2023, by Germany and the United Arab Emirates, which is hosting the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC).

What is Petersburg Dialogue ?

• Annual high-level political and international forum held before the United Nations Climate Change Conferences (COP).
• The forum aims to prepare for successful negotiations at COP climate change conferences.
• The dialogue focuses on climate adaptation, climate finance, and dealing with loss and damage

Outcomes of Dialogue 

• UN Secretary-General emphasized the need to “break our fossil fuel addiction and drive decarbonization in every sector” to achieve a 1.5°C global warming pathway.
• The developed countries are “on a good track” to deliver the USD 100 billion per year they had promised to mobilize by 2020 during COP15 in 2009.
• However, a recent estimate pegs climate finance needs at 1 trillion USD annually by 2030 for emerging markets alone, highlighting the urgent need for financial reparations.

• The need for an urgent global financial systems transformation was underlined so that crucial climate finance can be unlocked for the most climate vulnerable countries in the world.
• The burden of keeping global temperatures from rising beyond 1.5°C cannot fall on the poorest countries, who are least responsible for the stock of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

India’s Initiatives against Climate change 

• National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), 2008
• National Green Tribunal Act, 2010
• Unnat Jyoti by Affordable Lighting for All (UJALA)
• Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY)
• Zero Defect and Zero Effect (ZED)
• Promotion of Biofuels
• Fame Scheme 

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