Overview

• He suffered a stroke on July 18 while visiting his son in California and was cremated there before plans for a Ganga immersion and Lucknow prayer meeting were announced.
• From 1995 to 2003 as joint secretary in the environment ministry, Sharma was a principal architect of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and helped establish its Clean Development Mechanism.
• He led India’s delegations at COP8 in New Delhi in 2002 and at the 2008 Copenhagen climate conference during his tenure as environment secretary.
• After serving as environment secretary, Sharma was appointed an expert member of the National Green Tribunal and became Chief Information Commissioner in 2015.
• He championed the UNFCCC principle of common but differentiated responsibility and as G77 and China coordinator shaped the carbon market rules under the Kyoto Protocol.