While speaking at this summit, I was reminded of the words used by the young climate activist from Sweden, Greta Thunberg, at the United Nations Climate Summit. This support from the people gave us tremendous encouragement and strength to, one by one, introduce several more measures to reduce pollution. There is a long way to traverse, and we need to persist till we can guarantee clean air to our citizens 365 days a year as a human right. To ensure this, I joined city leaders of 35 global cities at the C40 Copenhagen Summit in signing the Clean Air Cities Declaration. Similarly, based on how the people of Delhi have supported all our efforts to reduce pollution in the last five years, I can confidently say that good environmental policies also make good politics.

Source: Hindustan Times October 12, 2019 01:07 UTC