India Emphasizes Financing, Innovation and Regional Cooperation at 2025 BRS COPs

Geneva, Switzerland 2 May 2025. India’s Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Bhupender Yadav, addressed the Ministerial Roundtable on the theme “Means of Implementation” at the High-Level Segment of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs).

Minister Yadav presented a summary of deliberations held with fellow ministers during the roundtable on 30 April highlighting the need for:

  • Predictable international financing and progressive domestic resource mobilization (e.g. carbon levies, EPR)
  • Innovative financial mechanisms such as green bonds, debt-for-nature swaps, and green loans
  • Enabling regulatory frameworks and tax incentives for green technologies
  • Strengthened institutions, inter-agency coordination, and data infrastructure
  • Tailored support for countries emerging from crisis, with conflict-sensitive programming
  • Enhanced regional cooperation and knowledge-sharing through regional centres

H.E. Shri Bhupender Yadav held further discussions with Mr. Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary of Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, Ms. Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP, on the plastics treaty (INC-5.2), and leaders of other key Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), including the CITES, Ramsar, Minamata and World Meteorological Organization Secretariats.

🔗 Read the original press release by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change – Government of India (PIB)