India's National Action Plan on Climate Change IIT Kanpur

1. National Action Plan on Climate
Change
Presented by:
Nihal Navin
Vaishali Jain
Nishant Sachan
Nikhil Gokul

2. Climate Change
What is it ?
• It is not a new phenomenon, Earth’s Climate is changing from the time of its
formation. Many scientific reports have shown that earth’s climate system varies
naturally over a wide range of time scales (millions or thousands of years).
It includes the factors such as:
• Variation in Temperature
• Sea level rise
• Glaciers and snow melting
• Variation in solar radiance
• Levels of Greenhouse Gases such as CO2

3. So why it is important now?
• Because the human activities (Industrialization) have increased its
pace.
• Earth’s atmosphere maintains the balance of energy entering and
leaving its system.
• The climate variations just before the Industrial revolution (1700s),
can be explained by natural causes ( Volcanic eruption, change in
solar irradiance) but recent climate changes are so vast and rapid that
they cannot be explained by natural changes only, and there is for
sure other things going on (human activities) which are root cause of
it.

5. How it will effect INDIA?
• Changing Rainfall pattern –> unpredicted Monsoon -> about 60% rain-
fed crop areas will be affected -> eventually lower GDP
• Extreme weather events will be increase -> disasters like floods,
drought, cloud burst, heat strokes etc. -> loss of life and property
• Example: Uttrakhand 2013 Disaster, Chennai flood
• Sea Level Rise -> submerged areas (islands, cities like Mumbai, Kolkata)
-> impact life

6. How it will effect INDIA?
• Health effects -> Increase in cases of Heat stroke, child mal-nutrition,
stunt growth
• Glaciers Melting -> snow cover lost -> rise in sea level and submergence
of low lying areas -> irrigation, domestic use will be effected
Climate change will alter the quality of life and effect adversely to
livelihood. Therefore, India needs to act immediately to maintain its
development pace which is ecologically sustainable.

7. Solution: National Action Plan on Climate
Change
• MOEFCC released NAPCC on
june 30, 2008 to mitigate and
adapt to the climate changes in
different domains
• It comprises of 8 missions

9. 1. National Solar Mission
• Making solar competitive with fossil-based energy options.
• Enabling policy framework for the deployment of 20,000 MW of solar
power by 2022
• Establishment of a solar research centre, increased international
collaboration on technology development, strengthening of domestic
manufacturing capacity, and increased government funding and
international support.
• To be implemented in three stages. Budgetary allocation for the
twelfth five year plan (2012-2017) is 8795 crore.

10. 2. National Mission on Sustainable Habitat
• To promote energy efficiency as a core component of urban planning.
• Extending the existing Energy Conservation Building Code.
• Recycling of material and urban waste management: power from
waste, Incentives for the use of public transportation.
• The total funding requirement assessed for the 12th five year plan
period (2012-2017) is 950 crores.

11. 3. National Water Mission
• Conservation of water, minimising wastage and ensuring integrated
water resources development and management.
• Increasing water use efficiency by 20% .
• Creating a comprehensive water data base in the public domain and
assessing the impact of climate change on water resource.
• Promoting citizen and state action for water conservation,
augmentation and preservation.
• The mission requires budgetary support of 89,101 crores.

12. 4. National Mission on Green India
• Increase forest cover on 5 mha as well as improving the quality of
existing 5 mha of degraded forest lands and expanding forest cover
from 23% to 33% of India's territory.
• To improve eco-system services like carbon sequestration.
• To increase forest based livelihood income of about 3 million
households.
• Agro-forestry /social forestry.
• The total mission cost is estimated to be 46,000 crores.

13. 5. National Mission on Sustaining Himalayan
Ecosystem
• Conserve biodiversity, forest cover, and other ecological values in the
Himalayan region.
• Continuously assess the health status of the Himalayan Ecosystem
and enable policy bodies in their policy-formulation.
• Glaciology Research, Generation of Bio-Geo Database & Ecological
Modelling For Himalayas.
• The total funding requirement for 2010 to 2017 is 1,695 crores.

14. 6. National Mission on Enhanced Energy
Efficiency
• Improve energy efficiency of domestic, commercial and industrial
sectors in India, encouraging innovative business models for
improving energy efficiency.
• Incentivizing action through Energy Savings Certificates (ESCerts).
• Other initiatives include Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT), Market
Transformation for Energy Efficiency (MTEE),Energy Efficiency
Financing Platform (EEFP).
• The total outlay for the 12th five year plan period (2012-2017) is 775
crores

15. 7. National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture
• To make agriculture more productive, sustainable and climate
resilient by promoting location specific integrated farming systems.
• To adopt comprehensive soil health management.
• To optimize utilization of water resources.
• Improved Crop, Seeds, Livestock and Fish, Improved Farm practices,
Agricultural Insurance Credit Support.
• The mission requires budgetary support of 1,08,000 crores.

16. 8. National Mission on Strategic Knowledge on
Climate Change
• Better understanding of climate science, impacts and challenges.
• Climate change research and fellowship programme.
• Improved climate modeling, and increased international
collaboration.
• It also encourage private sector initiatives to develop adaptation and
mitigation technologies through venture capital funds.
• The total funding requirement for the 12th five year plan period
(2012-2017) is 2,500 crore

17. Implementation of NAPCC

18. Conclusions
• Mixed opinions were mentioned by the different organizations and
experts over the NAPCC
• India can grow differently because it is in an early stage of
development. It can leapfrog to a low carbon economy using high-end
and emerging technologies
• Prioritizes national action by setting out eight missions – ranging from
solar to climate research – which will be detailed and then monitored
by the PM's council for climate change.
• But, the plan is weak on how India sees the rest of the world in this
extraordinary crisis. Climate change is a global challenge.

19. India’s Stand on Climate Change.
• India's stance in multilateral negotiations
• India has maintained that it believes in “common and differentiated
responsibility” and hence will wait for developed countries to cap
their emissions that are several times higher.
• Initiatives to prevent climate change have started but must be
continuous and sustainable

20. India’s Stand on Climate Change.
• Every individual of every country will need to contribute to prevent
climate change.
• The government has shown India's commitment and also sent a
positive message to the public, industries, and civil society about the
concern to address the climate change issue through concerted
action.
• Issues related to the awareness regarding global warming and climate
change among the general population and the issue related to
agriculture and health hazards due to climate change must be
addressed strongly and effectively.