In this special series, ‘The Climate Clock’ we put the spotlight on climate change, sustainability and its impact on the economy and human life. The big climate event of the year COP26 has recently ended and we had a lot of big updates coming up from the meet.

India has been in the spotlight for watering down the language on coal usage to ‘phase down’ from ‘phase out’, asking for a hike in climate finance increasing or expanding the NDCs at the same time.

To discuss all of this CNBC-TV18’s Sonal Bhutra spoke to RP Gupta, Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC).

Watch the accompanying video for more.