Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar has said that India would grow sustainably and at the same time ensure its citizens get the benefits of development.
Speaking at the ‘setting the context for the industry transition’ programme at the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations yesterday, he underscored Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Zero Defect, Zero Effect’ model where no products have defects and their production has no adverse effects on the environment.
The Climate Action Summit at the United Nations, hosted by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, aims to boost action to implement the 2016 Paris Agreement. It will focus on nine interdependent tracks, which will be led by 19 countries and aided by international organizations. The coalition on transforming industry is being led by India and Sweden.
Mr Javadekar said, the nine tracks will help nations in efforts to achieve the goals set under the Paris Agreement. The Minister told the forum that carbon capture and storing has been discussed for years, but it has not fructified to the extent it should have. He said, in a first, a campus is coming up in India which will capture carbon.
He said, many Indian industries are part of the carbon disclosure project and have begun adopting science-based targets.
