India will take action on climate change not "at somebody's dictation" but on its own volition, environment minister Prakash Javadekar has said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "very much interested in climate change and environmental issues. He has proved it in Gujarat for 12 years that both conservation and protection of environment along with development is simultaneously possible," Javadekar said in an interview. Minister of state for environment, forests and climate change Javadekar was here yesterday to represent India at the high-level climate change summit organised by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He said Modi's absence from the summit does not mean that India is not serious about climate change. "We are serious. (Modi) is committed (on climate change issues). We are doing our action but it is not at somebody's dictation, it is on our own volition," he said

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