New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first engagement at the United Nations was at UN Climate Action Summit on Monday during which he called for a global movement to bring about change saying "time for talks is over, the world needs to act now." "What is needed is acomprehensive approach that covers education, lifestyle, development strategy.We need global people's movement to bring about change. We believe that anounce of practice is worth more than a ton of preaching," the prime minister said.

Talking about India's climate change policies, PM said,"respect for nature is part of the tradition and need and not greed"has been New Delhi's focus. He highlighted how India is increasing its renewable energy in overall energy basket and aim is to "increase its renewable energy capacity to 175 GW by 2022". PM Modi talked about "a call for people's movement to end the usage of single-use plastic" in India, saying, "this will create awareness at the global level against single-use plastic".

The prime minister said that Indian government has alreadystarted the jal jeevan mission for water conservation, rain water harvesting and for the development of water resources and noted that India is going tospend USD 50 million on this.

PM Modi was the 3rd speaker at the climate change summit,after Prime Miniter of New Zealand and President of Marshall Islands. The primeminister will also inaugurate the Gandhi Solar Park at the United Nationsheadquarters on Tuesday as part of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhicelebrations. The park has 193 solar panels, one for each member country of theUnited Nations.

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump made a suddenappearance at the UN Climate Change summit. He entered the room when PM Modiwas delivering his speech. It is to be noted that Trump, who is known for not tobe keen on climate action policies, had initially planned to skip the event.