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♤ The most crucial and primary objective of the mission is to develop a sustainable National capacity to continuously assess the health status of the Himalayan Ecosystem and enable policy bodies in their policy- formulation functions and assist States in the Indian Himalayan Region with their implementation of actions selected for sustainable development.
Mission Objectives
♤ Building Human and Institutional capacities on climate change related aspects
♤ Network knowledge institutions and develop a coherent database on all knowledge systems
♤ Detect and decouple natural and anthropogenic global environmental changes and project future trends on potential impacts
♤ Assess the socio-economic and ecological consequences of global environmental change and design appropriate strategies for growth in the economy of the region
♤ Study traditional knowledge systems for community participation in adaptation, mitigation and coping mechanisms
♤ Evaluate policy alternatives for regional development plans
♤ Create awareness amongst stakeholders in the region
♤ Develop regional cooperation to generate a strong knowledge and database for policy interventions
22.4.6. NATIONAL MISSION FOR A GREEN INDIA Mission Objectives
♤ Increased forest/tree cover on 5 million hectares (ha) of forest/non- forest lands and improved quality of forest cover on another 5 million ha of non-forest/forest lands (a total of 10 million ha)
♤ Improved ecosystem services including biodiversity, hydrological services, and carbon sequestration from
the 10 million ha of forest/non-forest lands mentioned above
♤ Increased forest-based livelihood income of about 3 million households, living in and around the forests
♤ Enhanced annual CO2 sequestration by 50 to 60 million tones in the year 2020
Mission Targets
♤ Improvement in the quality of forest cover and ecosystem services of forests /nonforests, (including moderately dense, open forests, degraded grassland and wetlands: 5 million ha)
♤ Eco-restoration/afforestation of scrub, shifting cultivation areas, cold deserts, mangroves, ravines and abandoned mining areas (2 million ha)
♤ Improvement in forest and tree cover in urban/ peri-urban lands (0.20 million ha)
♤ Improvement in forest and tree cover on marginal agricultural lands/fallows and other non-forest land under agro-forestry/social forestry (3 million ha)
♤ Management of public forest/non-forests areas (taken up under the mission) by community institutions
♤ Adoption of improved fuel wood-use efficiency and alternative energy devices by households in the project area
♤ Diversification of forest-based livelihoods of about 3 million households living in and around forests
Sub Missions
♤ Sub-mission 1: Enhancing quality of forest cover and improving ecosystem services (4.9 million ha)
♤ Sub-mission 2: Ecosystem restoration and increase in forest cover (1.8 million ha)
♤ Sub-mission 3: Enhancing tree cover in urban and periurban areas (including institutional lands): 0.20 million ha
♤ Sub-mission 4: Agro-forestry and social forestry (increasing biomass and creating carbon sink): 3 million ha
♤ Sub-mission 5: Restoration of wetlands: 0.10 million ha
Do you know?
Indian government has announced a domestic goal of reducing the carbon emission intensity by 20-25 per cent of its GDP of the 2005 level by 2020.
22.4.7. NATIONAL MISSION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE (NMSA) Mission Objectives
♤ To devise strategic plans at the agro-climatic zone level so that action plans are contextualised to regional scales in the areas of research and development (R&D), technology and practices, infrastructure and capacity building
♤ To enhance agricultural productivity through customised interventions such as use of biotechnology to develop improved varieties of crops and livestock, promoting efficient irrigation systems, demonstration of appropriate technology, capacity building and skill development
♤ To facilitate access to information and institutional support by expanding Automatic Weather Station networks to the panchayat level and linking them to existing insurance mechanisms including the Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme and the National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (NAIS), scaling the returns at that level
♤ To promote “laboratory to land” research by creating model villages and model farm units in rainfed and dryland areas
♤ To strategise long-term interventions for emission reduction from energy and non-energy uses by way of introduction of suitable crop varieties and farm practices, livestock and manure management
♤ To realise the enormous potential of growth in dryland agriculture, through the development of drought and pest resistant crop varieties, adopting resource-conserving technologies, providing institutional support to farmers and capacity building of stakeholders.
♤ The NMSA has identified 10 key dimensions for adaptation and mitigation:
1. Improved Crop Seeds, Livestock and Fish Culture
2. Water Efficiency
3. Pest Management
4. Improved Farm Practices
5. Nutrient Management
6. Agricultural Insurance
7. Credit Support
8. Markets
9. Access to Information
10. Livelihood Diversification
22.4.8. The National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change (NMSKCC) Mission Objectives
♤ Formation of knowledge networks among the existing knowledge institutions engaged in research and development relating to climate science and facilitating data sharing and exchange through a suitable policy framework and institutional support
♤ Establishment of global technology watch groups with institutional capacities to carry out research on risk minimised technology selection for developmental choices
♤ Development of national capacity for modeling the regional impact of climate change on different ecological zones within the country for different seasons and living standards
♤ Establishing research networks and encouraging research in the areas of climate change impacts on important socio-economic sectors like agriculture, health, natural ecosystems, biodiversity, coastal zones, etc.
♤ Generation and development of the conceptual and knowledge basis for defining sustainability of development pathways in the light of responsible climate change related actions
♤ Providing an improved understanding and awareness of key climate processes and the resultant climate risks and associated consequences
♤ To complement the efforts undertaken by other national missions, strengthen indigenous capacity for the development of appropriate technologies for responding to climate change through adaptation and mitigation and promote their utilisation by the government and societies for the sustainable growth of economies
♤ Creating institutional capacity for research infrastructure including access to relevant data sets, computing and communication facilities, and awareness to improve the quality and sector specific scenarios of climate change over the Indian subcontinent
♤ Ensuring the flow and generation of human resources through a variety of measures including incentives to attract young scientists to climate science
♤ Building alliances and partnerships through global collaboration in research & technology development on climate change under international and bilateral science and technology (S&T) cooperation arrangements
Do you know?
The concept of “green GDP” arose in the early 1990s in reaction to the deficiencies of the traditional gross domestic product (GDP) to account for the economic costs of depleted natural resources and incurred pollution, which in turn affect human welfare.