Mumbai plans for net-zero 20 years before the rest of India
The megalopolis has released an ambitious “climate action plan”
ON MARCH 13TH, as commuters stream ed out of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a gothic revival masterpiece in Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, they were confronted with temperatures approaching 40°C, nearly 7°C above normal for the time of year. The city is in the midst of a debilitating heatwave, its 13th in the past five decades, nearly half of which occurred in the past 15 years. Mumbai’s average temperature has increased by over 1°C in that period (see chart).
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Heat island”
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