India voted against a UN Security Council (UNSC) draft resolution to securitise https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change.
The draft resolution linkedclimate changewith global security challenges.
India argued that; this move seeks to undermine the hard-won consensus which was reached at the recent Glasgow Summit.
The new climate agreement was accepted by the negotiators from around 200 countries, after the COP26 summit, which recognises Indias intervention to phase down rather than phase out the fossil fuels.
The draft resolution was moved jointly by Niger and Ireland.
It called the UN Secretary General Antonion Guterres to integrate climate-related security risk into comprehensive conflict-prevention strategies, as central component.