Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan has said that India considers climate change as a major threat to collective well-being and wants to play a positive, as well as constructive role in combating it. <br/><br/>He was addressing a gathering at the inauguration of India Pavilion at the ongoing meeting of Conference of Parties,COP-23, at the crucial UN climate summit which kicked off in Bonn in Germany today. <br/><br/>The Minister pointed out that India Pavilion is a window to our heritage and our progress, our traditions and indigenous technology, aspirations and achievements. <br/>'<br/>Noting that solving the "crisis" of climate change is not a question of politics but a moral obligation, Vardhan said although India's per capita emissions are only one-third of the global average, and its contribution to global stock of carbon dioxide is less than three per cent, it has still moved ahead with implementation of path breaking initiatives.'<br/><br/>He said India considers climate change a major threat to our collective well-being and wishes to play a positive and constructive role in combating it. <br/><br/>The objective of the Paris Agreement, adopted on December 12, 2015, by 195 parties to the UNFCCC is to prevent an increase in global average temperature and keep it well below 2 degree Celsius.<br/>'<br/>President Donald Trump had recently announced his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change and renegotiate the deal that was agreed upon by over 190 countries during the previous Barack Obama administration.