Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even though they have contributed least to the problem.

In this report the committee has examined the medium and the long term (up to 2031-32) demand

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has initiated a study entitled