National mission for a green India

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National mission for a green India [1]

Draft of Green India Mission, one of the missions under NAPCC released by MoEF. Aims to address climate change by enhancing carbon sinks in sustainably managed forests and adaptation of vulnerable ecosystems & forest dependant local communities to changing climate.

The National Mission for a Green India, as one of the eight Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), recognizes that climate change phenomena will seriously affect and alter the distribution, type and quality of natural resources of the country and the associated livelihoods of the people. The Mission (henceforth referred to as GIM) acknowledges the influences that the forestry sector has on environmental amelioration though climate mitigation, food security, water security, biodiversity conservation and livelihood security of forest dependant communities. GIM puts the

Publication Date:

24/05/2010

Source: Ministry of Environment and Forests [2]

Tags:

Forests [3], Ecosystem Services [4], Afforestation [5], Climate Change [6], Climate Mitigation [7], Energy Efficiency [8], Biomass [9], Carbon Sinks [10], Carbon Sequestration [11], Climate Adaptation [12], India [13], National Mission for Green India (GIM) [14], National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) [15]

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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biomass
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-sinks
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[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/national-mission-green-india-gim
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/national-action-plan-climate-change-napcc