In the absence of an official explanation on India's quiet withdrawal from hosting the earlier wished UN climate summit in 2028, it's anybody's guess now.

Not the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MOEFCC) of India, the focal point for the UN Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC), but the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) responded during a media briefing that, 'after taking several issues into account, India has withdrawn its bid to host 33rd Conference of Parties (COP33)' to the UNFCCC. The question remains: what are those 'several issues' that triggered India's U-turn from a previously claimed prestigious bid by the Prime Minister? It's neither indecorous nor unreasoned to decipher those triggers, even though they are speculatively reasonable. While many partisan arguments are rounding the corner to support the government's withdrawal as a 'wise choice', 'focus on domestic green growth', a big-ticket Commonwealth summit in 2030, or 'missed opportunity', and so on, without a tinge of intelligibility, the real reasons may be buried in the annals.

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