At the age of 31, Aaditya Thackeray serves as the environment minister for the Indian state of Maharashtra, passionately tackling climate change both in his jurisdiction – which holds India’s largest city, Mumbai – and at the global scale. His job isn’t an easy one, as the subcontinent is anticipated to be among the countries that will suffer from global warming most.
Here, in an interview conducted alongside COP26 in Glasgow, he shares his eye-witness accounts of climate change’s effects on his home territory, India’s pledge to be net-zero by 2070 and the role of youth in politics.
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