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Cross cutting connects to climate change

Climate change has off let come to mainstream discussion in India and adverse impacts of the climate change have slowly been recognized by the most countries. The most important concern about the climate change is its relation to almost everything we as human being do for survival and making the life comfortable. While the government has recognized the challenges of the climate change and is taking steps to curb the menace, the public have to also accept their responsibilities and contributes their bit to make minimize the impacts of climate change.

Every sector of the economy and the development can contribute to the betterment of environment and thus contribute positively towards climate change. Be it the way issues of sanitation is dealt with, the way water resource management, the way transportation is managed and used, the way manufacturing is promoted, the way agriculture is done and the way energy is generated and utilized; all most all these issues are related to the way individuals prefer their lifestyle to be and the way government at various levels prefers their cities, villages and people wants it to do and have carbon foot prints linked to each other.

In the absence of any regulatory framework there is no accountability at any level to keep tract of these happening and their impacts. There are however few adaptation and mitigation cases in the country where communities/ governments/ cities have been trying to promote green or sustainable technologies to reduce impacts of climate change. The most encouraging part of the climate change policies at international level are the access to carbon credits in the form of financial benefits that can be availed by the implementer so as to encourage green technologies.

The group is invited to suggest best practices that the cities, individuals and the government have adopted to benefit from such policies.