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India votes against UN draft resolution on climate change

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• Sponsored by Ireland and Niger
• 12 UNSC members voting for it
• India and Russia voted against and China abstaining.
• Niger-holds the UNSC presidency for December
• One of the objectives of the debate was to examine how terrorism and security risks could be linked to climate change
• Aims to link UNSC to climate change
• India argued that Security Council interventions on climate change will undermine the UNFCCC process, and provide disproportionate influence to a handful of developed countries on climate change decision-making.