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Further, in light of the wide socio-economic and climate-geographic 3.3
variations across different regions, the relevance of active involvement
of states in policy formulation increases manifold. Besides, the states
also differ in terms of mitigation potential (available opportunities
to abate/avoid GHGs) and capacity (financial, technological, know-
how, and awareness). Thus, it is imperative that a more decentralized,
bottom-up climate policy making, resulting in actions customized
to local contexts and needs, drives the country’s response to climate
change (Kaswan 2007; Burtraw & Shobe 2009).
3.1 State Action Plan on Climate Change: Process,
Actors, and Status
As a corollary to NAPCC, in August 2009, the Prime Minister of India
directed all the states to formulate their respective State Action Plan on
Climate Change (SAPCC), guided by, and consistent with the structure
and strategies of the NAPCC.20 The individual SAPCCs should lay
out sector-specific as well as cross-sector time-bound priority actions
in light of state-specific risks, impacts, and opportunities, besides
prioritizing areas for research and policy action in response to current
and future vulnerabilities and projected impacts. The SAPCCs should
also list indicative budgetary requirements, supplemented with details
of the necessary institutional and policy infrastructure to support the
operationalization of actions.
As the first step, MOEFCC, the coordinating agency for
implementation of the NAPCC, developed a common framework
with inputs from various multilateral and bilateral agencies like GIZ,
UNDP, World Bank, ADB, and DFID, with an objective to decentralize
the NAPCC objectives into local context (MoEF 2010). Besides
harmonizing national and state level policies and actions with regional
and site-specific variations, the common framework was also expected
to enable proper coordination of the process of preparation of SAPCCs
and its subsequent implementation under varied regional and local
contexts.
Almost all the states (at various stages of development of SAPCCs)
have adopted a participatory approach, although there is considerable
variation among states in terms of the form and extent of stakeholders’
participation undertaken/proposed. As in the case of any policy
20 PM’s address at the National Conference of the Ministers
of Environment and Forests, August 18, 2009, PIB:
Government of India, Online. Available at http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.
aspx?relid=51926
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variations across different regions, the relevance of active involvement
of states in policy formulation increases manifold. Besides, the states
also differ in terms of mitigation potential (available opportunities
to abate/avoid GHGs) and capacity (financial, technological, know-
how, and awareness). Thus, it is imperative that a more decentralized,
bottom-up climate policy making, resulting in actions customized
to local contexts and needs, drives the country’s response to climate
change (Kaswan 2007; Burtraw & Shobe 2009).
3.1 State Action Plan on Climate Change: Process,
Actors, and Status
As a corollary to NAPCC, in August 2009, the Prime Minister of India
directed all the states to formulate their respective State Action Plan on
Climate Change (SAPCC), guided by, and consistent with the structure
and strategies of the NAPCC.20 The individual SAPCCs should lay
out sector-specific as well as cross-sector time-bound priority actions
in light of state-specific risks, impacts, and opportunities, besides
prioritizing areas for research and policy action in response to current
and future vulnerabilities and projected impacts. The SAPCCs should
also list indicative budgetary requirements, supplemented with details
of the necessary institutional and policy infrastructure to support the
operationalization of actions.
As the first step, MOEFCC, the coordinating agency for
implementation of the NAPCC, developed a common framework
with inputs from various multilateral and bilateral agencies like GIZ,
UNDP, World Bank, ADB, and DFID, with an objective to decentralize
the NAPCC objectives into local context (MoEF 2010). Besides
harmonizing national and state level policies and actions with regional
and site-specific variations, the common framework was also expected
to enable proper coordination of the process of preparation of SAPCCs
and its subsequent implementation under varied regional and local
contexts.
Almost all the states (at various stages of development of SAPCCs)
have adopted a participatory approach, although there is considerable
variation among states in terms of the form and extent of stakeholders’
participation undertaken/proposed. As in the case of any policy
20 PM’s address at the National Conference of the Ministers
of Environment and Forests, August 18, 2009, PIB:
Government of India, Online. Available at http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.
aspx?relid=51926
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