{"id":10282,"date":"2026-04-08T20:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=10282"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:46:40","slug":"130117791-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=10282","title":{"rendered":"India withdraws its offer to host the UN climate summit (COP33) in 2028 | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130117936,imgsize-1296746,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"India withdraws its offer to host the UN climate summit (COP33) in 2028\" title=\"Attendees sit under a globe in a lobby at the side events pavilions at the COP30 UN Climate Summit, Nov. 11, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (File photo-AP )\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Attendees sit under a globe in a lobby at the side events pavilions at the COP30 UN Climate Summit, Nov. 11, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (File photo-AP )\">Attendees sit under a globe in a lobby at the side events pavilions at the COP30 UN Climate Summit, Nov. 11, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (File photo-AP )<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Delhi: India has withdrawn its offer to host the 33rd session of the UN climate conference (COP33) in 2028. The country has communicated its decision, expressing inability to host the conference \u201cfollowing a review of its commitments for the year 2028\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Though India has so far not formally announced its decision, officials in the environment ministry confirmed communication of withdrawal to the concerned body without extending any further explanation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>India\u2019s proposal to host COP33 was first made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself on Dec 1, 2023 during his speech at COP28 in Dubai. The announcement came in the wake of successfully hosting the G20 summit in New Delhi in 2023.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The withdrawal was communicated last week by the ministry\u2019s joint secretary Rajat Agarwal to the chair of the UN climate body\u2019s Asia-Pacific Group which is responsible for coordinating with host countries in the Asia-Pacific region.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Without getting into the details, the brief communication talks about India\u2019s commitment to engage constructively with the global community on climate action.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>India\u2019s withdrawal comes merely a week after it enhanced its climate action target under the UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement by declaring the country\u2019s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the period 2031 to 2035 as part of its larger long-term goal of achieving net-zero by 2070.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>India\u2019s latest NDC has three quantitative goals: reduction of emissions intensity (emission per unit of GDP) by 47% by 2035 from 2005 level; achieving 60% cumulative installed capacity of electric power from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2035; and creating carbon sink of 3.5 to 4.0 billion tonnes of CO\u2082 equivalent through forest and tree cover by 2035 from 2005 level.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>With India withdrawing its candidacy to host COP33, the Asia-Pacific Group may now bank on South Korea which too had earlier expressed its interest to host the UN climate summit in 2028. Turkiye will host COP31 later this year while Ethiopia will be hosting COP32 next year.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/india-withdraws-its-offer-to-host-the-un-climate-summit-cop33-in-2028\/articleshow\/130117791.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendees sit under a globe in a lobby at the side events pavilions at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[724,25478,723,719,25475,25477,720,721,25479,722,25476],"class_list":["post-10282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breaking-news","tag-climate-action-targets-india","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-climate-summit","tag-india-cop33-withdrawal","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-prime-minister-narendra-modi-cop28","tag-today-news","tag-un-climate-conference-cop33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}