Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal stated that the Global South is not responsible for global environmental damage, attributing it instead to developed countries with high energy consumption. He emphasized the need for sustainable consumption patterns at the CII Partnership Summit. Emphasizing promoting sustainable consumption patterns to cut carbon footprint and resolve issues of environment, he said that people of the world would have to focus on consuming products which are environmentally sustainable.

 “The damage to the environment was not caused by the global south or by the less developed or developing countries, but more by the developed countries, which enjoyed the fruits of low cost energy to develop their economies into large per capita economies,” he said.

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