Piyush Goyal among seven Indians in ‘World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy for 2019’
- Seven Indians have been named in the ‘World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy for 2019’ for taking steps in order to combat climate change. The list is prepared by Apolitical. These seven Indians are:
- (1) Piyush Goyal – Union Minister for Railways and Coal – fast track electrification of nearly 18,000 unelectrified villages, and been critical in the rollout of a drastic power sector reform and the world’s largest LED bulb distribution programme.
- (2) Dr Harsh Vardhan – Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change; (3) Mukta Tilak (Pune Mayor); (4) Jyoti Kirit Parikh (executive director of Integrated Research and Action for Development); (5) Sunita Narain, (environmentalist and political activist); (6) Vandana Shiva (environmental activist); and (7) Upendra Tripathy (director general of the International Solar Alliance)