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Detailed explanation-1: -Maharashtra’s capital city Mumbai on Sunday announced a detailed plan 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, reported news agency Bloomberg.

Detailed explanation-2: -Facing an existential threat from climate change, Mumbai, India’s financial hub has embarked an ambitious climate action plan that aims to make the city carbon-neutral by 2050.

Detailed explanation-3: -When we declare Sanchi as a net zero-carbon city on 3rd May, we will become the first state to achieve such a feat. Nowhere else in the country has that been done. This would be a city which will have all its energy requirements come from renewable energy sources.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mumbai aims to become carbon-neutral by 2050. The plan’s interim and long-term objectives are to reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030, and 44 percent by 2040, to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050 as compared to the base year 2019 emissions.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 2012 Copenhagen, Denmark created the CPH2025 Climate Plan with the target of becoming the first carbon-neutral capital by 2025 and for Denmark to be entirely carbon-neutral by 2050.