Nagpur: Maharashtra is the only state in the country that has won a regional leadership award that inspired the first leadership award at the Under2 coalition held at Castle Stirling near Glasgow in Scotland.
The Under2 coalition is the largest global network and territory committed to climate action and consists of more than 260 governments representing 1.75 billion people and 50% of the global economy.
The award ceremony was held to coincide with the COP26 summit which was ongoing in Glasgow.
While overcoming state governments around the world in Scotland, the Minister of State Minister of Aaditya Thackeray stated that it became the most advanced Indian state, Maharashtra planned to exceed expectations in the carbon neutral timeline.
“Maharashtra leads to reach net-zero as soon as possible, so that the rest of our country has space to go through a fast industrialization and then reach net-zero in accordance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi Vision.
As a government, the State will inspire trust in investors and businesses to commit to Climate action and to deliver a new era of sustainable development, “said Minister, adding that Maharashtra would lead the example of how the growing climate and industry can work together there.
After pocketing a prestigious award, Thackeray along with world leaders committed to strong climate action in 2030.
“This commitment based includes providing support to the city-zero in 2050, preparing a state climate change action plan, 100% of the purchase of new public fleets to become Zero emissions in 2030 in the main areas, empowering unlucky communities to develop local and scalable climate solutions, increase female representatives in the structure of governance related to climate change and are committed to large-scale forest recovery and other local ecosystems, “said Official.
The Minister also highlighted that a more advanced economy such as Britain, Germany, the United States from America “must go net-zero faster than the world that arises to ensure fair and fair development”.
While who submitted awards, the state government highlights how he managed to create a climate action culture in Maharashtra, which has been borne by $ 2 billion due to climate-related disasters for the past year.
“Local and regional partnerships have been achieved through the Majhi Vasundhara campaign which is the only program as widely holistic in the world that focuses on mitigation and adaptation of climate change.
In the second year, this mission was brought to all local bodies to cover the entire population of Maharashtra , “added officials The world’s first holistic climate change and adaptation program in the world (Majhi Vasundhara) – a new EV policy whose mandate from April 2022 all new government vehicles will be electricity – for Indian financial capital from Mumbai: 2100 electric buses in 2022, and 100% electric buses In 2027- Pune City (population 7.5 million), working to go carbon neutral in 2030- Mumbai worked with C40 cities to increase An women’s leadership in climate action is in line with the upcoming city climate action plan