Telangana climate conclave to be special feature of global summit

The forthcoming Invest Telangana Global Summit – 2026 will feature a special event, Telangana Climate Conclave.

To be held on December 8, the second day of the global summit, the conclave will witness participation of close to 200 scientists, experts from related fields and farmers. The event is being organised to discuss about agriculture patterns that can withstand droughts, animal husbandry, drinking water security, biodiversity, conversion of waste to wealth and other topics.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy wanted an exclusive discussion climate change and challenges posed by El Nino during the global summit. The discussion should result in planning short and long term measures to effectively tackle the problems caused due to climate change as well as a special action plan to handle challenges posed by environmental changes.

The Chief Minister at a meeting with senior officials on Thursday reviewed the status of arrangements being made for the global summit and made several suggestions to the officials concerned. Accordingly, it was decided to appoint a liaison officer for every participant besides ensuring that formalities like registration and issuance of passes be completed on arrival at the airport itself. Participants should be provided with detailed information of the summit proceedings in advance and steps should be taken to ensure that they were not inconvenienced at any point of time.

In addition to liaison officers, security officials should be appointed and elaborate arrangements should be made. Special invites should be sent to companies which evinced interest in investing in the State and officials concerned had been directed to ensure that a comprehensive plan for the successful conduct of the event was finalised by November 15.

Officials informed the Chief Minister that extensive arrangements were being made for the summit, including setting up of additional halls for the exhibitions. Steps had been taken to ensure that programmes related to investments, modern technology, innovations and job opportunities were prioritised besides making arrangements for the success of different exhibitions planned as part of the event.

The Raksha Expo, exclusive defence exhibition, would feature display of latest defence developments, aerospace and cyber security aspects along with drones and robotics. Of the 575 firm that had been invited to attend the summit, 49 had evinced interest to attend the global summit. Special arrangements were being made for animation, visual effects, gaming and related fields and an exclusive pavilion was being set up for start ups. It was decided to invite technological solutions in the fields of agriculture, health, protection of government lands and basic amenities as part of the Telangana Innovation Challenge that was made part of the event. Applications for the challenge would be accepted till November 20.

The Chief Minister wanted special focus on tourism sector as part of the summit while steps should be taken to showcase the measures initiated for education, research and skill development by the State government modelled on “Education to Harvard”.