Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh says the United States and the European Union-member countries are ‘backtracking’ on their commitment to provide $100 billion towards climate financing as committed at the Copenhagen meeting last year. He was speaking at the end of a two-day informal climate ministerial summit in Geneva on Friday. Ramesh cautioned the industrialised countries not to walk away from their commitments because of the current financial crisis. Ramesh assured industrialised countries that India will never ‘backtrack’ from the reduction commitment of 20 per cent made in the Copenhagen agreement. He said if the industrialised countries want India to agree on higher reduction commitments then they should provide money and technology.