The synthesis report of the Global Stocktake (GST), a Paris Agreement-mandated exercise at assessing the progress on climate action, notes that while headway had indeed been made, countries were nowhere close to achieving targets that would keep global warming under agreed levels.
This framing is important since India is taking the lead in voicing the concerns of the developing and under-developed countries, popularly known as the Global South, who have been adversely impacted by the Russia-Ukraine war.
The leaders continue to look forward to the participation of Indian companies in the US Rip and Replace programme, a joint statement issued by India and the US said.
Space cooperation had formed a very important part of the joint statement between the two countries during Prime Minister Modi’s state visit to the US in June this year.
Unlike the 58-paragraph statement last June during PM Modi’s State visit to the US, it made no mention of regional and global issues, counter-terrorism or situation in the neighbourhood including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Myanmar.