‘You Caused This Mess': Piyush Goyal SLAMS Europe Over Climate Crisis

Who's responsible for this mess in the first place? In the? Where did this ozone layer get damaged? Who sent all that carbon up there? All of us. No, I'm sorry. I support 17% of the world's population. My contribution to that carbon up there is less than 3%. The climate change is a serious thing. It's not something... So we have to be... I'm saying this. You are giving me the perfect opening for my comments. But please complete. No, no, I complete in saying that CIMA is coming from this. Perfect. I love what you said. Fully endorsed. We should lean back. Now, may I? Of course. I'm not saying that I'm in favor of CIMA. No, no, what's coming, I've heard many times before. Go ahead. You're giving me the perfect opening for what I wanted to say. Who's responsible for this mess in the first place? In the? Where did this ozone layer get damaged? Who sent all that carbon up there? All of us. No, I'm sorry. I support 17% of the world's population. My contribution to that carbon up there is less than 3%. You support probably 3 or 4% of the world's population. And your contribution to that carbon or the mess is 6%. Is? 6%. I'm sorry, madam. No, no, he's talking about cumulatively. But that's what matters. It's humongous. Probably over the years. So the problem was caused by you for good reasons. You were growing your economies. You wanted low-cost carbon-based energy. You blew coal day in and day out so that your energy cost remains low. But EU is not only Europe, it's also the US. Sorry? It's also the United States. We are talking about EU, EU, EU, EU, EU, that way. the fairness argument and it's a fairness argument even today as we sit here my contribution on a per capita basis to the carbon emissions is probably less than 10 or 15 percent of what you do even today the waste in Europe the country the per capita damage to the ozone layer or carbon emission is probably seven or eight times per capita what the Indian person has. It's not per capita. It's always per capita. Well, I'm supporting 17% of world population, and I am more conscious of waste, more conscious of circular economy, more conscious that I have to also meet the needs of 1.4 billion people. I have to meet their energy needs. I have to meet their food needs. I have to be secure as a nation. Despite all of that, we have one of the fastest growing clean energy programs. We are greening our steel. We are supporting global efforts towards climate, to fight, address climate change. But in Paris, when 2015, all the world came together. By the way, it was Prime Minister Modi who collected the global south, got them all to sign at COP21 to our collective intention to address the climate change problem. And what was discussed and decided? There will be common but differentiated responsibility. It was agreed that the developed countries who have enjoyed the fruits of messing up the climate for so many decades will pay a greater price and will support the developing and less developed countries. the island nations, the Pacific Caribbean nations, you want to support them and what only 100 billion dollars a year that was the only support that was promised 11 years later we haven't seen a nickel or dime of that it's all promises and does CBAM recognize the common but differentiated responsibility does CBAM recognize that the less developed countries have a right to offer their children and their families and their people also a better quality of life? I think that's the larger question which European Union or CBAM have failed to answer. They have failed to respond to the needs of the less developed countries to support them in their decarbonization efforts. And in any case, by the way, I don't mind all these regulations. The more regulations you put onto yourself, the faster will it become difficult to sustain these kind of costs.