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which is from manufacturing dialogue; • India Urban Data
building materials. Currently, Exchange, National
90% of India’s workforce • Policy, technology and Urban Learning Platform,
belong to the informal sector, institutional reforms; Smart Code, National
contributing more than half of and Urban Development
its GDP. However, informality • Partnership among Mission, GIS based
is leading to precarious public and private Property Records and
jobs, health, education and sector, civil society and Transaction;
food security issues. In this academia.
context, the only way out • Infrastructure and
is the engagement of urban Some of the initiatives recycling platform
sector with the Sustainable undertaken include the for plastic waste and
Development Goals, and following: e-waste;
adopting an integrated • Global initiative
approach towards the well- • SUNDAR India on disaster risk
being, infrastructure and (Sustainable Urban management;
environment. Network for Dynamic
and Resilient India);
The United Nations • Model Eco- Villages;
Conference of the Parties (CoP • Net Zero Green Growth, • Saptrishi Priorities for
2021 and 2022) has committed Decarbonisation; Green Growth;
to limit global warming to • LiFE (Lifestyle for
1.5 degree Celsius by the Environment); • Sustainable Procurement
year 2100. This necessitates and Lifestyle Analysis;
reducing the use of fossil • Strategic partnership for and
fuels by replacing them with the implementation of • PM Gati Shakti Master
new sources, such as solar PV, the Paris Agreement; Plan for infrastructure
green hydrogen, green metals, • International Solar
carbon capture, solid state Alliance; projects.
batteries, electric vehicles, TOWARDS CLIMATE
ethanol blended fuels, heat • Establishing Climate SENSITIVE DESIGN
pumps and electric and Centre for Cities; APPROACH
hydrogen powered transport.
This transition can synergise • Institutionalisation of A climate-sensitive design
partnerships and exchange Capacities on Climate approach (CSDA) recognizes
of innovative technologies Change; that the design of a built-up
among G-20 countries. India • Solutions for a circular area directly influences the
is at a unique position for economy; climatic comfort in an urban
cooperation at global level environment. Green urban
and has partnered with the • Sustainable, Circular planning combines climate
EU, Germany and several systems for solid waste sensitive solutions and
other countries. India, in its management; adaptation strategies in the
G-20 leadership role, has been context of the SDGs, national
working on Urban -20, which • Enabling Gender and local policies. green and
is based on the three pillars: Responsive and integrated urban planning.
Universal Urban
• Cooperation and Mobility; For a scientific analysis of

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