Efforts to keep Paris Agreement afloat: Envoy

AMID the US tariff war and its exit from the Paris Agreement, a group of European climate envoys met their Indian counterparts to discuss how to mobilise climate funding through private investment and keep the multilateral climate treaty alive.

- JITENDRA CHOUBEY @ New Delhi

"Our discussions focused on how to keep the Paris Agreement functional and viable for all of us, rather than abandoning it," said Anthony Agotha, EU Special Envoy for Climate and Environment at the European External Action Service (EEAS).

During their three-day visit from April 2 to 4, the climate envoys from Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the EEAS expressed concerns about the significant gap in climate mitigation funding in the wake of the US withdrawal from the climate treaty.