With various countries in the Indo-Pacific region facing cybersecurity threat from China and North Korea, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), the group comprising India, the United States, Australia and Japan, is planning to provide an effective platform for a cybersecurity alliance to deal jointly with any such challenges from the countries (China and its axis) that “do not believe in respecting international laws, written pacts, territorial integrity and sovereignty of other nations”. The Quad Cybersecurity Group, which met in New Delhi last week, discussed this plan comprehensively amid the risk of cyberwars looming large because of China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region, diplomatic sources aware of the matter told The Sunday Guardian. The Quad countries discussed building cybersecurity capabilities not only for themselves but also for
friendly nations and partners in the region. “The Quad stressed on the need to emerge as an effective platform for a gigantic alliance of the nations that are facing this threat,” a source said, adding, “more and more countries that are bearing the brunt of Beijing’s belligerence in the Indo-Pacific should be on board the alliance to combat the cybersecurity threat.”
India’s economy will become carbon neutral by the year 2070, the country’s prime minster has announced at the COP26 climate crisis summit in Glasgow. The target date is two decades beyond what scientists say is needed to avert catastrophic climate impacts. India is the last of the world’s major carbon polluters to announce a net-zero target, with China saying it would reach that goal in 2060, and the United States and the European Union aiming for 2050.
China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change. In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality before 2060. His statement has now been confirmed as China's official position ahead of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow. But China has not said exactly how these goals will be achieved.
China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change. In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality before 2060. His statement has now been confirmed as China's official position ahead of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow. But China has not said exactly how these goals will be achieved.
A crucial U.N. conference heard calls on its first day for the world's major economies to keep their promises of financial help to address the climate crisis, while big polluters India and Brazil made new commitments to cut emissions. World leaders, environmental experts and activists all pleaded for decisive action to halt the global warming which threatens the future of the planet at the start of the two-week COP26 summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Monday. The task facing negotiators was made even more daunting by the failure of the Group of 20 major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments at the weekend.