UN climate conferences bring prestige for the host country, which is expected to use its diplomatic skills and produce a consensus on global goals. When India offered to host the 2028 COP33 conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), it was seen as a natural pitch by a fast-growing emerging economy that is striving to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

In a submission to the UNFCCC, the country said its commitment on emissions reduction made at the Paris climate summit has been fulfilled 11 years ahead of deadline, and it has twice raised its ambitions since. Most recently, it decided to cut the emissions intensity of GDP by 47% by 2035, up from the previous 45% target.

It comes as a disappointment, therefore, that........

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