Maharashtra Awarded At COP26 Climate Summit For Sustainable Development Policy

Maharashtra has additionally joined the UN Race to Zero Initiative (File)

Glasgow:

Maharashtra has bagged the Inspiring Regional Management Award from Under2 Coalition for Local weather Motion and have become the one Indian state to win one of many three awards by U2 in Scotland. Aditya Thackeray, Maharashtra’s Atmosphere Minister, acquired the award on behalf of the state.

Talking in Glasgow, the minister mentioned, “This state needs to prepared the ground in India to deal with local weather change. The Chief Minister (Uddhav Thackeray) is a passionate wildlife fanatic and conservationist, and he has given us the chance to dream of a greater future, a greener future. We now have began with a motion known as Majhi Vasundhara, which suggests My Planet. We’re focussing on the standard 5 components of nature.”

The minister additionally spoke about how the state authorities was taking a look at clear power and shifting away from standard power like thermal or coal power. “Only in the near past we have solarised a freeway and we can be producing 250 MW of power. We now have put out the tender doc and we can be producing 250MW photo voltaic power from the brand new freeway between Mumbai and Nagpur.”

On a private word, he added, “My title Aditya additionally means the solar and in India, we’ve been worshipping the solar god because the seed of the universe. In most of our historical texts, the solar god holds a main place.”

Maharashtra’s efforts in direction of saving local weather at a subnational degree have been recognised by the Under2 Coalition, the most important international community of states and areas dedicated to local weather motion. The opposite two awards have been received by British Columbia (Canada) for Artistic Local weather Options and Quebec (Canada) for Local weather Partnerships. Maharashtra (India) had despatched in entries for all three classes of U2 – Inspiring Regional Management, Artistic Local weather Options, and Local weather Partnerships.

Talking in Glasgow, Scotland, Maharashtra’s Minister for Atmosphere, Tourism and Protocol, Aaditya Thackeray mentioned, “We strongly consider that it’s excessive time we put in collective efforts and significant actions to work on this international concern that sees no borders of geography, race, nationality or gender. We’re actually delighted to have been acknowledged by the Under2 Coalition for our heartfelt ongoing contribution in direction of local weather motion.”

Mr Thackeray, the youngest Cupboard Minister within the state authorities, holds the Atmosphere portfolio in one in all India’s most industrially superior states. He has led Maharashtra’s efforts to handle local weather change by notifying over 9,800 hectares of mangroves as protected areas and launching the primary state-wide programme within the nation on local weather change mitigation and adaptation.

Maharashtra’s entry had highlighted how the state authorities had succeeded in making a tradition of local weather motion in Maharashtra, which has borne bills value $2 billion on account of climate-related disasters through the previous yr. The state has additionally joined the UN Race to Zero Initiative and joined the C40 Cities initiative to handle local weather change on a worldwide degree.