National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)

The Government of India launched National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) on 30^thJune, 2008 outlining eight National Missions on climate change.

It aims at creating awareness among the representatives of the public, different agencies of the government, scientists, industry and the communities on the threat posed by climate change and the steps to counter it.

There are 8 national missions forming the core of the NAPCC which represent multi-pronged, long term and integrated strategies for achieving key goals in climate change. These are-

1. National Solar Mission
2. National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency
3. National Mission on Sustainable Habitat
4. National Water Mission
5. National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem
6. National Mission for A Green India
7. National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
8. National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change
   

 NAPCC is guided by following principles-

• Protection of poor and vulnerable sections of society through inclusive and sustainable development strategy, sensitive to climate change.
• Achievements of national growth through qualitative changes enhancing ecological sustainability.
• Deployment of appropriate technologies for both adaptation and mitigation of GreenHouse Gases emissions extensively and at an accelerated pace.
• Regulatory and voluntary mechanisms to promote sustainable development and engineering new and innovative forms of market.
• Effective implementation of plans using unique linkages like civil society and local governments through public-private partnership.
• Invite international cooperation for research, development, sharing and transfer of data and technologies enabled by sufficient funding and backed up by a global IPR regime under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology was entrusted with the responsibility of coordinating two out of these eight national missions on climate change. These are:

1. National Mission for Sustaining Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) and
2. National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change (NMSKCC).

Source: https://dst.gov.in/climate-change-programme