Telangana’s Hyderabad honoured with AIPH ‘World Green City award 2022’: The city of Hyderabad, Telangana, has been honored as the Grand winner of the AIPH (International Association of Horticultural Producers) World Green City Awards 2022, the most prestigious award of the Inaugural AIPH World Green City awards (2022 edition), for its initiative titled “Green Garland to the State of Telangana”. Hyderabad also won the award under the ‘Living Green for Economic Recovery and Inclusive Growth’ category.
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Why the award was given to Hyderabad?
- Hyderabad has been awarded for its initiatives relying on greater use of plants and nature to create better city environments and helps fulfil local aspirations for improved economic, social and environmental resilience.
- The award acknowledged the State’s programme of ‘Telangana Ku Haritha Haram’, a large-scale tree-planting program that the State has taken up from 2015-16. “The program envisages increasing the tree cover of the State from 24% to 33% of the total geographical area of the State,” the award said.
About the AIPH World Green City awards 2022:
AIPH World Green City awards (2022 edition) are the world’s first Green City awards. AIPH announced the 6 Category Winners and the Grand Winner during the award ceremony that took place at the gala dinner at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Leaders Forum in Jeju Province of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) on 14th October 2022.
Other Awards: 6 Category-wise winners
| Category | Winners |
| Living Green for Economic Recovery and Inclusive Growth | Green Garland to the State of Telangana, City of Hyderabad, India |
| Living Green for Biodiversity | Reverdecer Bogotá, Bogota D.C, Colombia |
| Living Green for Climate Change | Mexico City’s Environmental and Climate Change Program, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Living Green for Health and Wellbeing | Transforming degraded land into Urban Micro Parks, City of Fortaleza, Brazil |
| Living Green for Water | The Phytotechnology Stations at the Montréal Botanical Garden / Space for Life, City of Montreal, Canada |
| Living Green for Social Cohesion | OASIS Schoolyard Project, City of Paris, France |
