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Ensuring sustainable Environment’ initiatives cattle dung and solid
development highlight India’s position agricultural waste into
• Modi government as a global role model in compost and biogas.
has demonstrated that countering climate change.
development can • GOBARdhan is a Waste Transformation of India’s
go hand-in-hand to Wealth initiative in green landscape through Jan
with environmental tune with the circular Bhagidari
protection. economy and Mission • Big targets and speedy
• Environmental law LiFE initiatives of GoI, achievement have been
reforms under PM Modi launched on 30 April, hallmarks of India’s
have led to both better 2018 as a part of SBM-G. renewable energy policy.
compliance and ease of • Beneficiaries of • Since 2014, there has been
doing business. GOBARdhan projects a 23-fold increase in solar
from biogas and sale of energy capacity.
India is shaping the global bio-slurry are industries/ • PM Modi has encouraged
climate change debate entrepreneurs, rural people’s participation in
• Unlike the past, India households, farmers, environmental protection.
is now a leading voice SHGs, Gaushalas, Gram • From Swachh Bharat
in climate change Panchayats. to the end of single-use
negotiations. • GOBARdhan ensures plastic, he has motivated
• India has made ‘climate scientific management citizens and brought
justice’ central to global of bio-waste, resulting a voluntary change in
climate change discourse. in cleanliness in villages everyday habits.
• PM Modi’s ‘Panchamrit’ and generation of wealth
and ‘LIFE – Lifestyle For and energy by converting * * *
Did you know?
At the COP26 Summit in Glasgow,
PM Modi pitched for a ‘one-word
movement’ before the world in
the form of ‘LIFE’ which stands for
‘Lifestyle for Environment’
The Prime Minister called upon
the world to make ‘Lifestyle for
Environment’ i.e. LiFE a global
mission to fight climate change.
The vision emphasizes not only
energy production but also energy
conservation and sustainable living.
These solutions include energy-
efficient ACs, geysers, heaters and
ovens.
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