Climate Action, Sustainable Development Goals and Sustainable Energy for All:

The Role of Finance for Infrastructure and Making our Planet a Safe Place to Live

Dr. Ratna JainMayor,

Municipal Corporation, Kota (India)

The Kyoto Protocol has inadvertently resulted in the placing of climate policy and development in to separate boxes.

The development must be green and sustainable to make planet livable.

Therefore, Climate policy must be an integral part of the development policy and plan.

CLIMATE ACTION

 

 

In the Rio+20 outcome document, member States agreed that sustainable development goals (SDGs) must:•Be based on Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.•Fully respect all the Rio Principles.•Be consistent with international law.•Build upon commitments already made.•Contribute to the full implementation of the outcomes of all major summits in the economic, social and environmental fields.•Focus on priority areas for the achievement of sustainable development, being guided by the outcome document.•Address and incorporate in a balanced way all three dimensions of sustainable development and their inter-linkages.•Be coherent with and integrated into the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015.•Not divert focus or effort from the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.•Include active involvement of all relevant stakeholders, as appropriate, in the process.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

 

 

SDGs must be:• Action-oriented

• Concise• Easy to communicate

• Limited in number• Aspirational

• Global in nature• Universally applicable to all countries while taking into account

different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national policies and priorities.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

 

 

SDGs must be:• Contribute to the achievement of sustainable development

• Serve as a driver for implementation and mainstreaming of sustainable development in the UN system as a whole

• Address and be focused on priority areas for the achievement of sustainable development.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

 

 

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL

Without sustainable energy, we will not meet the Millennium Development Goals.

Sustainable development is not possible without sustainable energy

Let us work to bring sustainable energy to the developing countries

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL

Sustainable Energy for All is focused on achieving three objectives• Universal Energy Access

• Renewable Energy• Energy Efficiency

India

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL

 

 

India is among the countries those are producing less pollution

and tangible green actions are being taken with sincerity.

India

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL

 

 For overcoming the problem of initial high cost of green solutions, co-funding is required for greener infrastructure in

developing countries where the bulk of the modern infrastructure will be built in the coming decades.

Win - Win situations can be made possible by funding in green developmental activities in developing countries like

India

A Green Climate Fund will make our planet sustainable and livable.

INDIA: A GLOBAL LEADER

 

 

•The second most populous country in the world,

With over 1.27 billion people.

•Already containing 17.5% of the world's population, India is

projected to be the world's most populous country by 2025.

•This will create demand for infrastructure development.

INDIAN HUMAN RESOURCE 

 

India has enough talented human resource. If funding reaches to the grass roots level it will be worth full

for long term sustainable projects.

LIST OF MILLION-PLUS URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN INDIA

 

 Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad,

Pune, Surat, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Nagpur, Ghaziabad, Indore,

Coimbatore, Kochi, Patna, Kozhikode, Bhopal, Thrissur, Vadodara, Agra,

Visakhapatnam, Malappuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur, Ludhiana,

Nashik, Vijayawada, Madurai, Varanasi, Meerut, Faridabad, Rajkot,

Jamshedpur, Srinagar, Jabalpur, Asansol, Vasai-Virar, Allahabad,

Dhanbad, Aurangabad, Amritsar, Jodhpur, Ranchi, Raipur, Kollam,

Gwalior, Durg-Bhilainagar, Chandigarh, Tiruchirappalli, Kota.

KOTA

 

 

Population: 1.1 million Area 318 sq. kms.

For green and sustainable development :

• Affordable green housing• Solar Power generation• A hub of universities

Clean, Green and Healthy City 

 

As a Doctor – Mayor, Health and Environment are my utmost priority.

 

  NEVER GIVE UP ON WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO DO.

THE PERSON WITH BIG DREAM IS MORE POWERFUL THAN

ONE WITH ALL FACTS. - ALBERT EINSTEIN

Thank you !