New Delhi: World leaders, together with from France, the UK and the Maldives, had been amongst those that congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the launch of Mission LiFE (Way of life for the Surroundings) aimed toward facilitating the shift in direction of sustainability on Thursday.
Beginning his video message addressing the Prime Minister as “Expensive Narendra,” French President Emmanual Macron mentioned that he seems ahead to working with the Indian presidency of G20 subsequent yr.
“Expensive Prime Minister, pricey Narendra, pricey colleagues, pricey buddies, namaste. I want I might be you in Kevadia at this very particular second. And at a time when our world is topic to growing geopolitical tensions, we've no alternative however to decide on cooperation of division for one single area. Nobody can handle international challenges and particularly local weather change by itself,” Macron mentioned.
India takes over the presidency of G20 or Group of Twenty, an intergovernmental discussion board comprising 19 nations and the European Union, from Indonesia for a yr from 1 December.
“France seems ahead to working with India to make this initiative a hit together with within the perspective of the Indian presidency of G20 subsequent yr,” Macron added.
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss additionally despatched her congratulations by a video message.
“As democracies, we should work collectively to safe power independence and defend economies. We’re investing with companions like India to develop important local weather infrastructure. I commend India’s management in launching Mission LiFE, let’s hold main the best way,” she mentioned.
Based in 1999, the G20 grouping works to deal with problems with worldwide issues, like the worldwide financial system, local weather change mitigation and sustainable improvement.
Maldives’ President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih mentioned that PM Modi’s Mission LiFE couldn't have come at a extra essential juncture when “the unwell results of the local weather disaster come at upon the nations with full power.”
Estonia’s Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas in her message expressed gratitude to PM Modi for launching Mission LiFE and mentioned that the necessity for a collective response to deal with local weather change is stronger than ever.
“India has been very energetic in World Cleanup Day. Final yr, 1.2 million folks took half in it in India, which is spectacular,” Kallas mentioned.
Irakli Garibashvili, Georgia’s Prime Minister mentioned “Georgia welcomes and totally helps this international initiative, well timed launched by PM Modi which promotes an environmentally acutely aware way of life that focuses on the precept of conscious and deliberate utilisation.”
Prime Minister Modi and United Nations Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres launched the Mission LiFE motion in Gujarat’s Ekta Nagar.
Envisaged by PM Modi, Mission LiFE is predicted to be an India-led international mass motion that can nudge particular person and collective motion to guard and protect the setting, mentioned Prime Minister’s Workplace (PMO).
Mission LiFE can be India’s signature initiative on the United Nations and different worldwide platforms for showcasing local weather motion and early achievement of the Sustainable Growth Objectives, in keeping with the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) assertion.
“Our planet is beneath threats. General, 70 per cent of forest land is considerably degraded. Collective motion is required to guard the planet. I want to prolong finest needs to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the launching of the Mission LiFE emblem and mission doc which seeks to mobilise 1 billion folks of India to change into pro-planet folks by 2027. Congratulations India for taking the lead,” mentioned Irfaan Ali, President of Guyana.
Andry Rajoelina, Madagascar President in her message mentioned, “I'm satisfied that LiFE may change into one of many turning factors in our struggle in opposition to local weather disaster. I thank India by its Prime Minister Narendra Modi who's an inspiring chief in environmental safety, for bringing us collectively round this trigger. It's with hope and conviction that I be a part of you on this mission.
Earlier, Prime Minister Modi held a bilateral assembly with UN chief Antonio Guterres.
The duo paid floral tributes on the Statue of Unity at Kevadia and the UN Secretary-Normal joined Prime Minister Modi on the launch of the Mission LiFE (Way of life for Surroundings) booklet, emblem, and tagline.
“Mission LiFE is a world motion to safeguard our surroundings from the impression of local weather change”, PM Modi tweeted.
The launch of Mission LiFE comes simply a few weeks earlier than leaders from across the globe will collect in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh for the twenty seventh United Nations Local weather Change Congress (COP 27) on 6 November 2022.
What's Mission LiFE?
Mission LiFE is an initiative to cope with Local weather change by a three-pronged technique for altering the collective strategy in direction of sustainability.
First, to encourage people to practise easy but efficient environment-friendly actions of their each day lives to create a requirement for sustainable items and companies.
Second, to allow industries and markets to reply swiftly by making certain provide to the altering demand.
Third, to affect the federal government to assist each sustainable consumption and manufacturing by supportive insurance policies.
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