Making earth greener!
According to a recent UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report, green pandemic recovery could cut up to 25 per cent off predicted 2030 greenhouse gas emissions and bring the world closer to meeting the 2°C goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Environment experts also believe that there is a greater need to make lifestyles sustainable on a mass scale. Lifestyle emissions are linked to many sources and sectors. Foremost among these are mobility, residential and food, each of which contributes close to 20 percent of lifestyle emissions, thus implying strong mitigation potential in these areas, says the 2020 Emissions Gap Report.
One of the easiest and most impactful ways to have a green lifestyle is to start recycling. “We can encourage our children to use ecofriendly stationeries from an early age which are plantable and contribute to a healthier planet,” Vic Rana, Group Chairman, Red Ridge Global said.
"As a climate reality leader trained by Al Gore and as a proponent for a greener planet, I strongly believe that it all starts with consumption. Human consumption is at the core of the issues — we need to learn to get back to basics and understand the difference between needs and wants. The sooner we are able to do this, the faster we will get to the promised land," says Barun Aggarwal, CEO, BreatheEasy Consultants.
Commuting, as an activity of daily life, underwent a major overhaul during the Covid19 lockdowns globally. Industry sources advocate adoption of electric cars.
"It's time to switch to greener, cleaner modes of transportation and mobility. Transition to electric mobility is a sectordefining trend that we will slowly observe in India. It is now needed more than ever to ease the fossil fuel consumption as much as possible. One can consider going electric in their choice of vehicles, as it is both cheaper and more environmentally sustainable in the long run. We work towards alleviating range anxiety through our public as well as private EV charging range," says Sarthak Shukla, who founded eVolt, a Delhi-based EV charging infrastructure company, aimed at building a robust electric vehicle charging network. —IANS