Javadekar hails action plan for climate justice

“On this Earth Day, we have made history. As many as 171 countries have signed the Paris agreement. It is the triumph of collective wisdom,” Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said in his statement to the world body on the high-level signing ceremony here on Friday. 

Javadekar said the agreement explicitly highlights the benefits of sustainable lifestyle and consumption and warned that the extravagant lifestyle of some countries would render the planet unsustainable. “If we continue with an extravagant lifestyle in the same way what we experience in many countries, earth will become unsustainable. So we must bring sustainability in consumption as our priority goals,” he said, adding that the international community has to take care of the only planet the human race has. 

“If we continue with unsustainable consumption, we would require three planets, and we don’t have them. We have only one planet. There is only one Mother earth and we must take care of it,” he said. 

Javadekar stressed that there is an impetus for operationalising the vision of ‘Climate Justice’ as enshrined in the Preamble of the Paris Agreement.