Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar has said that clean air, clean energy and clean power balanced with growth were the priorities for India in its mission to combat climate change. The government had pursued voluntarily set targets with commitment, conviction and followed-up action and had played an active and positive role in tackling the Climate Change. The Minister stated this while addressing the media on the eve of his departure for United Nations Climate Change Conference which is being held at Lima, Peru. Shri Javadekar also stated that Indias stand at the Conference would be based on its domestic obligations of addressing the basic development needs of poverty eradication, food security and nutrition, universal access to education and health, gender equality and women empowerment, water and sanitation, clean energy, employment, sustainable cities and human settlement and its commitment to fight climate change.
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