Glasgow, Online Desk.The United Nations Climate Summit ie CAP-26 has formally started. In this, for the next two weeks, representatives of 200 countries will have an in-depth discussion on dealing with the common challenges of rising global temperatures.
The conference will continue till 12 November. Britain’s Indian-origin Minister Alok Sharma, presiding over the conference that began in Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, said that this conference is the last and best hope for us to keep alive the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 ° C. Is. In such a situation, this curiosity must be arising in your mind that after all who is this Alok Sharma.
His name sounds like an Indian in hearing, so who is it after all? What is their relation with this corp-26? Let us tell you about Alok Sharma, who is currently making a different identity among the representatives of 200 countries from all over the world.
Indians in Johnson’s cabinet
In fact, the ruling Conservative Party got a clear majority in the UK general election. With this, Prime Minister Boris Johnson again became the Prime Minister of Britain. Three Indian-origin MPs were included in Johnson’s cabinet. That is, three leaders got ministerial posts in Johnson’s cabinet.
Priti Patel in UK, Alok Sharma and Rishi Sunak were sworn in as ministers in Britain. All three Indian-origin ministers had won the general election. The special thing is that these three leaders got the same post in the Johnson cabinet, which was available in the previous government.
Priti Patel was retained as Britain’s Home Minister. At the same time, Rishi Sunak was made a minister of the Treasury Department. Along with this, MP Alok Sharma was sworn in as the International Development Minister. Johnson’s cabinet also included Rishi Sunak, son-in-law of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy. Rishi Sunak got a place in the post of Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Know who is Alok Sharma
Johnson included three people of Indian origin in his cabinet. These three people are Preeti Patel, Rishi Sunak and Alok Sharma. All these three leaders of Indian origin are staunch supporters of Boris Johnson.
It is a good thing for the Indian subcontinent that three people from here got a place in the cabinet of Britain. Alok Sharma was appointed as the Minister of State for International Development in Johnson’s cabinet.Alok Sharma belongs to Agra district of Uttar Pradesh.
Alok Sharma received the award for supporting Johnson on the issue of Brexit. He was given a place in his cabinet by Johnson. Anyone who opposed Johnson was thrown to the side. There were very few people who had been in Teresa’s cabinet and were made ministers again.
Alok Sharma was born on 7 January 1967 in Agra. His family moved to Britain in the 70s. Alok Mahat was five years old at that time. He immigrated to Britain with his parents. Here he completed his primary and higher education. Alok Sharma has studied Chartered Accountancy.
Alok was raised in the Reading suburbs of Early and Whiteley Wood. He had his early education at Reading Blue Coat School. He did his BSc in Applied Physics from Salford University in 1988.
After completing B.Sc, he took training of Chartered Accountant. After training in Manchester, he held high positions in several financial firms in London. Alok Sharma has also been the chairman of the think-tank Bo Group’s Economic Affairs Committee.
Sharma targeted the dragon
In his inaugural address, Sharma said that we can take the talks forward. We can launch major action to cut carbon emissions. Take advantage of the opportunities of cheap and clean energy. He said that China, which emits the most greenhouse gases, has set some time limits to cut it, but it is not enough. Concrete action is expected from China in this direction.
The Glasgow Summit will be attended by heads of state and leaders from around the world on Monday and Tuesday. These include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. After that their representatives and the team of officers will discuss in the meeting.
Alok Sharma, President of the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change to be held in February this year, has also met Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. That conference of the United Nations is also known as COP-26. India-UK cooperation at COP26 was discussed during the meeting.
Prime Minister Modi had congratulated Britain for the successful conduct of the conference. Earlier, Alok Sharma also met Union Minister of Forest and Environment and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar.
