‘Environment for everyone’: India at the Stockholm+50 conference

The Stockholm+50 opened earlier in the day with a call to accelerate urgent climate action for a healthy planet for the prosperity of all

PGurus Newsdesk

June 3, 2022

The Stockholm+50 opened earlier in the day with a call to accelerate urgent climate action for a healthy planet for the prosperity of all

Looking back to future at Stockholm+50, India asks world to leave no one behind

At the Stockholm+50 conference, India has reiterated that the principles outlined during the 1972 Stockholm conference remain relevant even today. India has said the world needs to ensure that when the Stockholm conference turns 75, it can look back with the satisfaction of our collective action — to leave no one behind.

This was Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav making India’s statement this Thursday on the first day of the two-day Stockholm+50 conference being held to mark the 50 years of the 1972’s first UN conference on the human environment.

The Stockholm+50 opened earlier in the day with a call to accelerate urgent climate action for a healthy planet for the prosperity of all.

“Climate justice aims at providing a level playing field to all communities across the world by empowering them with financial and technology from interventions,” Yadav said as he read out his brief India statement.

The Union Minister then listed India’s achievements vis-a-vis climate actions in the both domestic and international arena, especially that done in partnership with other countries.

Towards the end, Bhupender Yadav remembered the theme of the conference ‘Healthy planet for the prosperity of all’ and said it reminded him of the millennia-old Sanskrit verses from ancient Indian scripture.

He went on to recite the Sanskrit verse – ‘Om Sahana Bhavatu, Sahanau Bhunaktau, Saha Veeryam Karava Vahe, Tejaswina Vadheet Mastu, Maa Vidvishaavahei Om Shanti Shanti Shanti’ and translated it for the benefit of others as follows: “May we all be protected. May we all be nourished. May we work together with great energy. May our intellect be sharpened. Let there be no animosity amongst us.”

Yadav also penned his thoughts as part of his ‘Stockholm Diary‘ wherein he also listed all his day’s engagements.

“At Stockholm+50, it is time for us to remind ourselves that the fight against environmental degradation cannot be fought and won without us understanding that our wildlife, our land, and our natural resources are all as important as us, if not more. It is time to say in one voice, ‘Environment for Everyone‘.”

Heads of the governments, Environment Ministers, think tanks, NGOs, researchers, students, activists, and the entire gamut of stakeholders in the environmental movement attended the prestigious event.

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