UN award for PM is a proud moment for India
Friday - September 28, 2018 9:59 am ,
Category : WTN SPECIAL
WTN- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded with the UN’s highest environmental honour, bestowed upon five other individuals and organisations, for his leadership of the International Solar Alliance and pledge to eliminate single use plastic in India by 2022.
“This year’s laureates are recognised for a combination of bold, innovative, and tireless efforts to tackle some of the most urgent environmental issues of our times,” the UN Environment Programme said.
French President Emmanuel Macron, President of France and Modi have been jointly recognised in the Policy Leadership category for their pioneering work in championing the International Solar Alliance and promoting new areas of levels of cooperation on environmental action, including Macron’s work on the Global Pact for the Environment and Modi’s unprecedented pledge to eliminate all single-use plastic in India by 2022. Cochin International Airport has also been honoured this year with the award for Entrepreneurial Vision, for its leadership in the use of sustainable energy. India and France had together launched the ISA on sidelines of the UN climate conference (COP21) in Paris in 2015.
The ISA is an inter-governmental body of solar rich nations whose objective is to galvanise actions for increasing solar power footprints in 121 potential member countries across the globe. The ISA is headquartered in Gurugram.
This award is not just a personal achievement for the PM but it also vindicates India’s stand and commitment towards reducing carbon emissions by shifting towards renewable sources of energy. How the government is engendering a major transformational shift in the energy use and production sector is phenomenal.
A silent revolution is underway, the effects of which will be visible in their true colour about five six years from now. Development is usually measured in India by the ostentatious manifestations like swanky roads and glittery buildings. It is this fad of ours that has over the years led to a neglect of the green concerns.
Most developed countries today are acknowledging the importance of reforms in the energy sector and laying thrust on ways to promote and adopt cleaner fuel and other energy saving measures to reduce carbon footprint and global warming. India started off late but in the last five years or so, she has taken major leaps towards that direction, which has made her a leading nation in commitment and action towards cleaning up the air by shifting to environment-friendly techniques of energy production, aggressively exploring the solar and wind energy potentials.
The unlocked potential is still immense and India can be a serious player in exporter of technique and power capitalising on the edge it has, by pushing the solar energy cause. Unless PM Modi had taken up this mission on priority we would have missed the bus and pollution levels by now would have been unbearable. In the next five years, we need to be entering an era of e-vehicles, green buildings, more solar and wind energy-based power generation (hence lesser dependence on coal-based polluting plants) and non-use of plastics. Only then we can leave a safer and livable future for our progeny.
Conventional fuel like petrol and diesel can no longer be promoted or sustained, much as coal-based power plants need to be shut in close succession as we rapidly shift to smart and clean energy options.
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“This year’s laureates are recognised for a combination of bold, innovative, and tireless efforts to tackle some of the most urgent environmental issues of our times,” the UN Environment Programme said.
French President Emmanuel Macron, President of France and Modi have been jointly recognised in the Policy Leadership category for their pioneering work in championing the International Solar Alliance and promoting new areas of levels of cooperation on environmental action, including Macron’s work on the Global Pact for the Environment and Modi’s unprecedented pledge to eliminate all single-use plastic in India by 2022. Cochin International Airport has also been honoured this year with the award for Entrepreneurial Vision, for its leadership in the use of sustainable energy. India and France had together launched the ISA on sidelines of the UN climate conference (COP21) in Paris in 2015.
The ISA is an inter-governmental body of solar rich nations whose objective is to galvanise actions for increasing solar power footprints in 121 potential member countries across the globe. The ISA is headquartered in Gurugram.
This award is not just a personal achievement for the PM but it also vindicates India’s stand and commitment towards reducing carbon emissions by shifting towards renewable sources of energy. How the government is engendering a major transformational shift in the energy use and production sector is phenomenal.
A silent revolution is underway, the effects of which will be visible in their true colour about five six years from now. Development is usually measured in India by the ostentatious manifestations like swanky roads and glittery buildings. It is this fad of ours that has over the years led to a neglect of the green concerns.
Most developed countries today are acknowledging the importance of reforms in the energy sector and laying thrust on ways to promote and adopt cleaner fuel and other energy saving measures to reduce carbon footprint and global warming. India started off late but in the last five years or so, she has taken major leaps towards that direction, which has made her a leading nation in commitment and action towards cleaning up the air by shifting to environment-friendly techniques of energy production, aggressively exploring the solar and wind energy potentials.
The unlocked potential is still immense and India can be a serious player in exporter of technique and power capitalising on the edge it has, by pushing the solar energy cause. Unless PM Modi had taken up this mission on priority we would have missed the bus and pollution levels by now would have been unbearable. In the next five years, we need to be entering an era of e-vehicles, green buildings, more solar and wind energy-based power generation (hence lesser dependence on coal-based polluting plants) and non-use of plastics. Only then we can leave a safer and livable future for our progeny.
Conventional fuel like petrol and diesel can no longer be promoted or sustained, much as coal-based power plants need to be shut in close succession as we rapidly shift to smart and clean energy options.
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