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CHAPTER INFORMING SUB-
3 NATIONAL ACTIONS:
INDICATORS AND
STATE CLIMATE POLICY
In June 2008, India launched its National Action Plan on Climate 3.3
Change (NAPCC) that encompasses a multi-pronged, long-term,
and integrated framework for addressing climate change as a core
development issue. In its eight missions,15 the NAPCC proposes an
extensive range of measures, focusing on renewable energy, energy
efficiency, clean technologies, public transport, resource efficiency,
afforestation/reforestation, tax incentives and research, and generation
of strategic knowledge. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change (MOEFCC) coordinates the implementation of the
NAPCC through its various missions which are nodalized by the
respective administrative ministries.
It has been recognized that sub-national institutions could have
a critical and far-reaching role in the process of transition to a low
carbon economy. According to UNDP (2010), around 50–80 per cent
of the investments for GHG mitigation (and up to 100 per cent for
climate change adaptation) happen at the sub-national and local levels.
Regional and local governments lead16 the implementation of policies,
programmes, and fiscal instruments ‘in the areas of generation, supply
and distribution of electricity, the regulation of the built environment,
waste management, transport, and land‐use planning’. Engaging
sub-national and local actors in climate action could promote cross-
sector policy interventions and create ‘role models’ which could be
replicated/upscaled at the domestic and global levels. In the context of
the international climate policy and discourse, the Cancun Agreement
(COP 16) for the first time formally recognized17 the indispensable role
of local and sub-national governments as ‘government stakeholders’ in
global climate action.
15 Accessible from pmindia.gov.in/climate_change_english.pdf; last accessed
February 15, 2015.
16 The Climate Group (2009).
17 Cancun Agreement, Decision 1/COP16 on “Outcome of the work of the Ad
Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention
(AWG-LCA)”.
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3 NATIONAL ACTIONS:
INDICATORS AND
STATE CLIMATE POLICY
In June 2008, India launched its National Action Plan on Climate 3.3
Change (NAPCC) that encompasses a multi-pronged, long-term,
and integrated framework for addressing climate change as a core
development issue. In its eight missions,15 the NAPCC proposes an
extensive range of measures, focusing on renewable energy, energy
efficiency, clean technologies, public transport, resource efficiency,
afforestation/reforestation, tax incentives and research, and generation
of strategic knowledge. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change (MOEFCC) coordinates the implementation of the
NAPCC through its various missions which are nodalized by the
respective administrative ministries.
It has been recognized that sub-national institutions could have
a critical and far-reaching role in the process of transition to a low
carbon economy. According to UNDP (2010), around 50–80 per cent
of the investments for GHG mitigation (and up to 100 per cent for
climate change adaptation) happen at the sub-national and local levels.
Regional and local governments lead16 the implementation of policies,
programmes, and fiscal instruments ‘in the areas of generation, supply
and distribution of electricity, the regulation of the built environment,
waste management, transport, and land‐use planning’. Engaging
sub-national and local actors in climate action could promote cross-
sector policy interventions and create ‘role models’ which could be
replicated/upscaled at the domestic and global levels. In the context of
the international climate policy and discourse, the Cancun Agreement
(COP 16) for the first time formally recognized17 the indispensable role
of local and sub-national governments as ‘government stakeholders’ in
global climate action.
15 Accessible from pmindia.gov.in/climate_change_english.pdf; last accessed
February 15, 2015.
16 The Climate Group (2009).
17 Cancun Agreement, Decision 1/COP16 on “Outcome of the work of the Ad
Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention
(AWG-LCA)”.
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