Mahindra World City Jaipur Ltd. recently hosted Zachary Tofias, Head of the Urban Planning and Development Initiative and the Climate Positive Development Programme at C40 Cities, a network of global megacities committed to addressing climate change. Mr. Tofias visited MWC Jaipur to review initiatives undertaken as part of the integrated city’s C40 Stage 2 certification, and expressed satisfaction on progress made thus far. MWC Jaipur is the first project in Asia and the largest project in the world (by population) to receive Stage 2 ‘Climate Positive Development’ certification from C40 Cities. The Climate Positive Development Programme is a performance-based framework designed to create models for how cities can grow in low carbon ways. Stage 2 Climate Positive recognition is conferred on developments that have successfully created detailed plans for reduction in energy, waste and transportation related carbon emissions onsite, and for extending the impact to the surrounding community to achieve a climate positive outcome