https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56596200

India lambasted the richer world's carbon cutting plans, calling long term net zero targets, "pie in the sky." Their energy minister said poor nations want to continue using fossil fuels and the rich countries "can't stop it".

China said it would get there by 2060. "2060 sounds good, but it is just that, it sounds good," Raj Kumar Singh, India's minister for power, told a meeting organised by the International Energy Agency (IEA). "I would call it, and I'm sorry to say this, but it is just a pie in the sky."

To the discomfort of his fellow panelists, Mr Singh singled out developed countries where per capita emissions are much higher than in India. "You have countries whose per capita emissions are four or five or 12 times the world average. The question is when are they going to come down?"

Mr Singh pointed out that while it was the richer countries who had burned most of the fossil fuels that have caused the problems, they now want developing countries to stop -- that was unfair, he said. "The developed world has occupied almost 80% of the carbon space already, but you have 800 million people who don't have access to electricity. You can't say that they have to go to net zero, they have the right to develop, they want to build skyscrapers and have a higher standard of living, you can't stop it," he told the meeting.