At UN summit, India calls for global shift to sustainable living
The Hindu
India emphasizes affordable solutions for climate change at the United Nations Summit of the Future, promoting sustainable lifestyles and green jobs.
Adopting sustainable lifestyles could tackle many of the challenges posed by climate change and global success is more likely if affordable solutions are offered, India has said at the United Nations "Summit of the Future".
Addressing the summit in New York on Friday (September 20, 2024), Leela Nandan, secretary in the Union Environment Ministry, also said that climate change discussions often focus solely on emission reductions, but "we are more likely to succeed if we offer affordable solutions, not simply impose decisions".
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The Summit of the Future brings together world leaders, policymakers and other stakeholders to discuss global challenges and strengthen multilateral cooperation to tackle emerging threats.
Citing an estimate by the International Energy Agency, Ms. Nandan said, "If we were to put our actions into the right context in terms of saving energy, saving water, reducing waste, reducing e-waste, adopting sustainable food systems, we would have reduced annual global emissions by 2 billion tons by 2030."
"This is such a significant step that would actually resolve a lot of the issues that are facing us today in the climate change scenario," she added.
Ms. Nandan said that earlier this year, at the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, India's resolution on sustainable lifestyles was unanimously adopted.
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