Greenpeace India submits manifesto recommendations on green cities and clean food to political parties for Karnataka Assembly elections

Greenpeace India also called on political parties to make critical environmental issues such as urban justice, equitable mobility and safe local foods the basis of current and future legislature discourses

Greenpeace India has submitted 20 recommendations to political parties pertaining to sustainable cities and nutrition diversity in the runup to the Karnataka Assembly elections.

The NGO called on political parties to make critical environmental issues, such as urban justice, equitable mobility and safe local foods, the basis of current and future legislature discourses.

The 10-point agenda for sustainable mobility are:

1. Declaring all Transit Oriented Development Zones (ToD) as Low Economic Zones (LEZ)

2. Implementing Active Mobility Bill

3. Dedicating 4,000 kilometres of cycle lanes and footpaths for cyclists and pedestrians, with 2,000 km of cycle lanes and footpaths exclusively for Bengaluru

4. Establishing 11 dedicated bus lanes in Bengaluru