India’s Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav has inaugurated India Pavilion at the 27th Session of Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Welcoming delegates to the pavilion, Yadav said that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has provided a simple solution to the complex climate change problem.
India believes that climate action starts from the grassroots, individual level and hence designed the India Pavilion with the theme of ‘LiFE- Lifestyle for Environment’, he said.
On this occasion, Yadav also felicitated the COP Young Scholars from India who worked towards Positive Climate Change solutions. Shri Yadav expressed hope that Indian Pavilion would continue to remind the delegates that simple lifestyle and individual practices that are sustainable in nature can help protect Mother Earth, according to a press release by the Indian embassy in Cairo on Monday.
Minister Yadav attended the ceremonial opening of COP27.
Mission LiFE is designed with the objective to mobilise at least one billion Indians and other global citizens to take individual and collective action for protecting and preserving the environment in the period 2022 to 2027. India aims to make at least 80 per cent of all villages and urban local bodies environment-friendly by 2028, the statement said.
