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Modi-Obama climate change usual rhetoric: Greenpeace
New Delhi, Jan 26
Greenpeace India Sunday
expressed its disappointment that the India-US bilateral talks on
climate change did not go beyond "rhetoric" and "platitudes".
In
response to the joint agreement between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
US President Barack Obama on strengthening partnership in clean and
renewable energy efforts, the environmental NGO, in a statement,
expressed disappointment over the announcement that "didn't go beyond
rhetoric and the usual platitudes".
However, it welcomed the
leaders' decision to phase out hydro-fluorocarbons (HFC), a greenhouse
gas that adversely affects the climate.
The big shift that was
seen was the agreement they reached to phase out HFCs, which has been a
thorny issue in the past with India not keen to move on it.... (it) is
certainly good news," the statement said.