It's "premature" to comment on Trump's Paris climate deal:Dave

India today said it would be "premature" to comment on US President-elect Donald Trump's controversial remarks of canceling the hard-fought Paris climate deal and will take a decision only when a need arises.
Terming the Paris agreement as a "settled fact", Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said India will continue to act as per its promises under the deal.
"It would be premature to comment at this juncture. We should wait and watch. After two-three months, whatever situation arises, we will decide then. We will move forward with our agenda under the Paris agreement. Paris agreement is a settled fact," Dave said.

Dave said yesterday that the need was not to react on assumptions but to keep a "close watch" on the situation.
He said whatever is spoken during election campaigns is "different" which is why one should wait for another few months.
Dave was responding to the remarks made by Trump before his election that climate change was a "hoax" perpetrated by China. He had also vowed to "cancel" the landmark agreement concluded last year to limit dangerous global warming.
US Secretary of State John Kerry who gave a speech at the ongoing climate change conference recently had said without naming Trump that the "strongest skeptic" has to acknowledge that something disturbing is happening.

The BASIC ministers who met here yesterday had also termed the direction of the travel from Paris as "irreversible" and said there can be no "backtracking" on the commitments made by the developed nations and no attempts should be made to "renegotiate" the terms of the pact.