India, Nov. 14 -- India should meet its energy needs "in the most convenient way that it can" and worry about decarbonisation only once it is richer, physicist Steven Koonin said at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Saturday.

Asked what the COP climate conferences had achieved, Koonin, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, said: "Global emissions continue to go up, they are soaring. The promises of financial help from the developed world to the developing world have not materialised." Track the HTLS 2026 live here

He added: "I think it's time to think about doing the response in a different way than what we have done."

His statement comes at a time when negotiators from nearly 190 countries are meeting in Antalya, Tu...