Berlin, Oct. 22 -- Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal launched a critique of the developed world's track record on climate obligations, questioning wealthy nations and the European Union for failing to deliver on their climate finance commitments to the Global South.

Addressing a roundtable at the Berlin Global Dialogue, Goyal called out developed nations for historically contributing the lion's share of global carbon emissions while reneging on their pledged financial and technological support to developing and vulnerable nations under the Paris Agreement.

"At the Paris climate conference in 2015, when the whole world came together, it was Prime Minister Modi who brought the Global South together and encouraged countr...