New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- Nadir Godrej, Chairman of Godrej Agrovet and Managing Director of Godrej Industries, said on Wednesday that climate equity is a very important issue.

Speaking on Day 2 of the Mumbai Climate Week, a three-day event being held at the Jio Convention Centre in Mumbai, Godrej discussed the pertinent question of Western countries pushing for faster decarbonisation.

Calling climate equity a crucial issue, Godrej said that India joined the development very late. Before India's entry, other countries had been emitting carbon dioxide for several years, and it was already becoming a problem.

Sharing an anecdote, he noted that in the 70s, one of his professors at MIT asked him to write a paper on carbon emissions. He further ...