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Inviting Global Ideas & Suggestions For LiFE - Building an Environmentally Sustainable Future

Inviting Global Ideas & Suggestions For LiFE - Building an Environmentally Sustainable Future
Start Date :
Jun 15, 2022
Last Date :
Jul 31, 2022
23:45 PM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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India is one of the leaders in sustainable development and clean energy. With the Hon PM Narendra Modi-led government’s reform-oriented, environment-friendly policies, the ...

India is one of the leaders in sustainable development and clean energy. With the Hon PM Narendra Modi-led government’s reform-oriented, environment-friendly policies, the country has time & again shown that sound environmental policies can pave the way to a sound economy.

At the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in 2021, PM Shri Narendra Modi announced the ‘LiFE’, a mission to bring individual behavioural change at the forefront of the global climate action narrative. LIFE or Lifestyle for Environment along with the ‘Pro Planet People’ movement, aims to strengthen the efforts to overcome climate change.

LiFE will replace the prevailing 'use-and-throw’ thinking with an environmentally conscious lifestyle. The Mission is to create a global community of ‘Pro-Planet People’ (P3), who with their shared commitment will adopt and promote environmentally friendly lifestyles.

Individual Efforts Are Key to Climate Commitment

India's traditional knowledge strongly positions it to lead the narrative of addressing climate change. Like many other mass movements, LiFE aims to inspire climate action based on the mantra of ‘Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas’.

MyGov invites you to share your ideas and suggestions on how to adapt to an environmentally conscious lifestyle.

1. Reduce
2. Reuse
3. Recycle
4. Renewable
5. Recover
6. Re-design
7. Re-manufacture

Few examples for the above:
Reduce - Electricity, Fuel Usage
Reuse - Old Clothes, Electronics, Building materials, furniture
Recycle - Plastic, newspapers, cartons, boxes
Renewable - Solar, Wind, Hydro, Tidal, Geothermal & Biomass
Recover - Forests, rivers, soil, mountains, wildlife
Redesign - Green buildings
Remanufacture - E-waste for new purposes

Our civilisational values have taught us the importance of living in harmony with nature. Today, let’s come together to protect our environment & take forward Mission LiFE - Lifestyle for Environment.

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Devineni Manoj Kumar
Devineni Manoj Kumar 4 years 2 months ago
Nature gives surplus & vulnerable to wastage, but Human Mind though part & inseparable from nature, thinks Reasonably ( 3rd dimensional eye) to utilise & be utilised in optimal amount about any Resource with minimal wastage. Curtailing wastage of any Energy, Substance, Time is the corner stone on which LIFE Re-Generates & minimises environmental Degeneration.
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AdityaMishra 4 years 2 months ago
In other words, with the right policies, the right market conditions and the right stimulus for change and investment, the sustainable goals can serve as a catalyst for the perfect cycle of benefits. That means sustainable growth and a more skilled workforce for the building sector; social, economic and environmental gains for the country; cost-efficient buildings, services and infrastructure for local authorities with healthier workplaces and homes for the millions of real people who have to share increasingly scarce resources on this planet.
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AdityaMishra 4 years 2 months ago
So, we cannot afford to think of this sector purely in terms of climate change. Yes, there is a big impact on global warming that must be addressed. But there is also a big opportunity for public-private co-operation in the building sector to develop ambitious policies and strategies that deliver many other sustainable development goals. As well as creating healthy, sustainable communities, decent work and economic growth, the sector could transform issues like poverty, equality and justice. After all, the challenges faced by individual countries and communities may be different, but the goals are not: safe, resilient, energy efficient and low-carbon buildings, which meet the needs of local people in a global environment. By sharing knowledge and experience from one place, we can broaden and accelerate action in many others, while fostering innovation, developing integrated solutions and expanding workforce capacity at the same time.
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AdityaMishra 4 years 2 months ago
If we act now, we can prevent that impact from growing, as urbanisation burgeons to support a population heading to nine billion. Instead we can encourage the sector to support the global transition to an inclusive, green economy. For example, greater collaboration and transparency could overcome the fragmentation that acts as a barrier to both profitability and efficiency gains that could be scaled up through things like district energy, renewables or resource management.
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AdityaMishra 4 years 2 months ago
The buildings sector is an essential part of everyday life for both developed and developing countries. Unfortunately, as UNEP's Green Economy Report highlights, any profits come at a cost for the environment, with the construction, operation and demolition of buildings responsible for over a third of all CO2 emissions, energy and material resources, and waste products.
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AdityaMishra 4 years 2 months ago
Ministers, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Minister has well established the building sector's importance in bending the climate change curve to stay within the crucial two degree path. That is why, on behalf of my colleagues at the United Nations Environment Programme, I would like to thank the Government of France and all the other organisations that made it possible to mark the first ever 'Buildings Day' with an event that places the issue at the forefront of the climate negotiations.
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AdityaMishra 4 years 2 months ago
Today we have glorious opportunity – to take what we had learnt from building with limited resources over centuries and from the mistakes of the architecture of excess of the West, and leap frog into an architecture that is sustainable, not only environmentally, but financially, socially, culturally and technologically – an architecture that is global yet local. It is imperative that we, as Indian architects, take a few steps back into the past, to be able to find solutions for creating an environmentally sustainable future.
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AdityaMishra 4 years 2 months ago
This sensitivity to the local conditions can aim to not only generate a robust and durable form but make a building socio-culturally sustainable. Rain-water harvesting should be encouraged at a community level so that collected rainwater can be used for daily operations and can be fed to a neighbourhood park which can act as a natural sump. This will as a result facilitate reduction for freshwater demand by 30%.
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AdityaMishra 4 years 2 months ago
The goal when building green is also to pay special attention to detailing and vernacular methods of construction. Incorporation of local techniques of craft and construction and an inclusive approach to local materials can result in promoting a low carbon footprint. Inspired by traditional methods of construction, such as earthen pot insulation, earth-bermed strategy, high thermal mass walls, cooling ponds and windcatchers, can impart a distinct identity and character to the building while tackling the affordability aspect of construction.
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