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Kolkata Only Indian City to receive Best Cities Award for Climate Change

Kolkata, along with 10 other cities from across the globe, has been honoured with the best cities of 2016 award in recognition of its inspiring and innovative programme with regard to solid waste management.
●    Kolkata is the only Indian city to receive the prestigious award. It received the award during the C40 Mayors Summit held in Mexico City.
●    The project involved 100 per cent door to door collection of solid waste, segregation and recycling by way of compositing which is sold in the market.
●    One significant aspect of this project is that ragpickers are part of it.
●    Other cities that won the award are Addis Adaba, Copenhagen, Curitiba, Sydney and Malborne, Paris, Portland, Seoul Shenzhen, and Yokohama.
●    The winning projects show that great progress is being made on every continent, and they serve as an inspiration to other cities. 
●    They also show how cities can help the world meet the ambitious goals set a year ago in Paris.

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