Amby Valley, Sahara Lake City (AVSLC) became the first private and planned Hill City to be a part of Cities for Climate Protection campaign (CCP) of International Council for Local Environmental Initiative (ICLEI) on November 2, 2002.

The resolution was signed by Lt. Gen. (Retd.) A.S. Rao, Director, AVSLC, Shri Jim Yienger, ICLEI CCP, Technical Program Manager and Shri Emani B.V. Kumar, Director, CCP, South Asia.

Amby Valley, Sahara Lake City (AVSLC) is a formal member of ICLEI. The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives is an international association of local governments implementing Sustainable Development. Its mission is to build and serve a worldwide movement of local governments to achieve tangible improvements in global environmental and Sustainable Development conditions through cumulative local actions.

Cities for Climate Protection campaign is a global campaign to reduce the emissions that cause global warming and air pollution. This campaign began in 1993 worldwide and its Indian activities started with support from USAID. Through the Indian CCP campaign, we will be working towards finding various innovative and cost effective solutions to environmental and urban management problems such as reducing fossil fuel based energy consumption, improving air quality, improving waste management and thereby minimizing the emission of climate damaging Green House Gases.

In India, ICLEI is also working with seven other municipal corporations – Guntur, Hyderabad, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Sangli and Vadodra.

Amby Valley, Sahara Lake City (AVSLC) is committed to provide World’s Best Living by providing custom made facilities at par with international standards, state-of-the-art transportation, security and communication facilities, an 18-hole floodlit championship golf course with golf academy, water and adventure sports and a complete social infrastructure. All these activities and facilities lead to the possibility of vast consumption of energy and thereby emissions. By joining CCP campaign, AVSLC will ensure, at all times, preventive measures to maintain the quality of air, the adherence to pollution norms and waste minimization on a sustainable basis. All these activities will be monitored through an established environment laboratory by SEED team at AVSLC.