‘We have reduced our emission intensity by 21 per cent when compared to the 2005 levels,’ Modi said at the Climate Ambition Summit.

Trump officially withdrew from the Paris Accords earlier this month, saying that it 'was designed to kill the American economy.'

The Union Minister encouraged a healthy partnership to meet climate change goals under the Paris Agreement.

The 2015 Paris agreement bound the US and 187 countries to keep a check on rising global temperatures.

Donald Trump has repeatedly criticised the agreement as economically detrimental and claimed it could cost the country 2.5 million jobs by 2025.

Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed countries like India and China for not doing enough on climate change.

Mike Pompeo said the US approach incorporates the reality of the global energy mix and uses all energy sources and technologies cleanly and efficiently, including fossils fuels, nuclear energy and renewable energy.

Trump accused scientists of having a "very big political agenda" and asserted that he does not want to put the US, the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, at a disadvantage in responding to climate change.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rejected calls from conservative colleagues to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.