Aaditya unveils Climate Action Plan for Mumbai
The Hindu
State Environment Minister Flags urban flooding and rising heat as biggest challenges
Maharashtra Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray on Friday unveiled the Climate Action Plan for Mumbai, which is being developed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) with technical support from the World Resources Institute India. The city joined the C40 Cities Network in December last year and the plan is expected to be ready by November to coincide with the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow. Mr. Thackeray said that further delays would make Mumbai unsuitable to live in over the next decade. “Mainstreaming climate action while implementing Mumbai’s development plan can protect the city’s natural systems, increase resilience capacities of vulnerable groups, and enable resilient urban growth that ensures aggressive reductions to the city’s greenhouse gas emissions,” he said.We all remember the childhood history classes on human evolution, which taught us how where men started hunting their food and learned to cook on fire create a fire that paved the way for our culinary adventures across centuries. Humans have evolved since then, wood fires have been replaced by ovens and gas stoves whereas open-fire cooking has only been a part of our backyard activity that gets a pick occasionally during special occasions.
Bengaluru and its civic bodies are notorious for delays in completion of infrastructural projects. Arguably the most infamous among such projects is the Ejipura flyover, which has been dragging on for the past seven years. Intended to connect the southeast part of the city to its east and west regions, it has faced numerous delays since its commencement in 2017.