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Mumbai Becomes First South Asian City to Detail Net-Zero Roadmap

  • Plan calls for sweeping changes to energy, water and transport
  • Companies that supply Mumbai’s power have pledged funding
The city skyline covered by haze in Mumbai.

The city skyline covered by haze in Mumbai.

Photographer: Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images

Mumbai announced detailed plans to zero out carbon emissions by 2050, a target that puts it two decades ahead of India’s national goal and makes it the first city in South Asia to set such a timeline. 

In the plan announced Sunday, India’s financial center, home to south Asia’s biggest corporations, stock bourses and the central bank, has proposed exhaustive changes to the way it manages energy, water, air, waste, green spaces and transport for its 19 million residents.