World Bank team meets chief min

Thiruvananthapuram: A World Bank team led by its vice-president for South Asia Region Martin Raiser, held discussions with chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and expressed interest in projects that the state plans to implement to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
After the meeting, Raiser said Kerala was urbanising rapidly, and this will create more challenges in the future due to the rising level of carbon emissions, particularly from the transport sector. “One of the areas in which Kerala wants to make further progress is to green its transport system,” Raiser said.
He said the state should tap renewable energy resources to meet its energy needs. “It has a lot of potential for solar,” he added.
Raiser said during his meeting he emphasised the need for implementing e-mobility by adopting electric and fuel cell-based electric vehicles for developing a green eco-system in the state. He, however, admitted that it was not an easy task.
About the meeting with Vijayan, the official said it was a “positive” one as the projects that the WB has undertaken in Kerala were being implemented well. agencies