On June 30, 2008, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released India’s first National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) outlining existing and future policies and programs addressing climate mitigation and adaptation. The plan identifies eight core “national missions” running through 2017 .New NDA governent has added 4 more plan in the mission and old plans are being enhanced

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2. India's National Action Plan on Climate
Change
National Action Plan on Climate Change
On June 30, 2008, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released India’s first National Action Plan
on Climate Change (NAPCC) outlining existing and future policies and programs addressing
climate mitigation and adaptation. The plan identifies eight core “national missions” running
through 2017 and directs ministries to submit detailed implementation plans to the Prime
Minister’s Council on Climate Change by December 2008.
Emphasizing the overriding priority of maintaining high economic growth rates to raise living
standards, the plan “identifies measures that promote our development objectives while also
yielding co-benefits for addressing climate change effectively.” It says these national measures
would be more successful with assistance from developed countries, and pledges that India’s per
capita greenhouse gas emissions “will at no point exceed that of developed countries even as we
pursue our development objectives.”
National Missions
National Solar Mission: The NAPCC aims to promote the development and use of solar energy
for power generation and other uses with the ultimate objective of making solar competitive with
fossil-based energy options. The plan includes:
 Specific goals for increasing use of solar thermal technologies in urban areas, industry,
and commercial establishments;
 A goal of increasing production of photovoltaics to 1000 MW/year; and
 A goal of deploying at least 1000 MW of solar thermal power generation.
Other objectives include the establishment of a solar research center, increased
international collaboration on technology development, strengthening of domestic
manufacturing capacity, and increased government funding and international support.
National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency: Current initiatives are expected to yield
savings of 10,000 MW by 2012. Building on the Energy Conservation Act 2001, the plan
recommends:
 Mandating specific energy consumption decreases in large energy-consuming industries,
with a system for companies to trade energy-savings certificates;
 Energy incentives, including reduced taxes on energy-efficient appliances; and
 Financing for public-private partnerships to reduce energy consumption through demand-
side management programs in the municipal, buildings and agricultural sectors.
National Mission on Sustainable Habitat: To promote energy efficiency as a core component of
urban planning, the plan calls for:

3.  Extending the existing Energy Conservation Building Code;
 A greater emphasis on urban waste management and recycling, including power
production from waste;
 Strengthening the enforcement of automotive fuel economy standards and using pricing
measures to encourage the purchase of efficient vehicles; and
 Incentives for the use of public transportation.
National Water Mission: With water scarcity projected to worsen as a result of climate change,
the plan sets a goal of a 20% improvement in water use efficiency through pricing and other
measures.
National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem: The plan aims to conserve
biodiversity, forest cover, and other ecological values in the Himalayan region, where glaciers
that are a major source of India’s water supply are projected to recede as a result of global
warming.
National Mission for a “Green India”: Goals include the afforestation of 6 million hectares of
degraded forest lands and expanding forest cover from 23% to 33% of India’s territory.
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture: The plan aims to support climate adaptation in
agriculture through the development of climate-resilient crops, expansion of weather insurance
mechanisms, and agricultural practices.
National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change: To gain a better understanding of
climate science, impacts and challenges, the plan envisions a new Climate Science Research
Fund, improved climate modeling, and increased international collaboration. It also encourage
private sector initiatives to develop adaptation and mitigation technologies through venture
capital funds.
Other Programs
The NAPCC also describes other ongoing initiatives, including:
 Power Generation: The government is mandating the retirement of inefficient coal-fired
power plants and supporting the research and development of IGCC and supercritical
technologies.
 Renewable Energy: Under the Electricity Act 2003 and the National Tariff Policy 2006,
the central and the state electricity regulatory commissions must purchase a certain
percentage of grid-based power from renewable sources.
 Energy Efficiency: Under the Energy Conservation Act 2001, large energy-consuming
industries are required to undertake energy audits and an energy labeling program for
appliances has been introduced.
Implementation

4. Ministries with lead responsibility for each of the missions are directed to develop objectives,
implementation strategies, timelines, and monitoring and evaluation criteria, to be submitted to
the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change. The Council will also be responsible for
periodically reviewing and reporting on each mission’s progress. To be able to quantify progress,
appropriate indicators and methodologies will be developed to assess both avoided emissions and
adaptation benefits.
Modi Govt Initiative
Seeking to broaden India’s response to climate change, the government will soon add at least
four new ‘missions’ to the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), including one to
9.promote wind energy, and another 10.to build preparedness to deal with impacts on human
health.
A programme 11.for more effective management of India’s coastal resources and 12.another to
harness energy from waste is also slated to be launched.
Currently, eight ‘missions’ are operational, each of which is a sectoral response to the impacts of
climate change. Three of them — 1.on solar energy,2, afforestation and 3.energy efficiency —
seek to slow down the growth of India’s emissions. Another three — 4.on agriculture, 5.water
and 6.Himalayan eco-systems — are about initiating measures to adapt to the effects of climate
change. The remaining two — 7.on sustainable habitat and 8.strategic knowledge — are service
missions and seek to create more knowledge on useful climate responses.
The Wind Mission is modelled on the National Solar Mission which seeks to increase the share
of renewable energy in India’s energy mix. The Solar Mission has been one of the most
important components of the NAPCC as it has the maximum impact on slowing down the
growth of India’s greenhouse gas emissions. The government recently enhanced the target of
electricity production under the Solar Mission from the original 20,000 MW by 2022 to 100,000
MW.
The Wind Mission is likely to be given an initial target of producing about 50,000-60,000 MW
of power by the year 2022, the year when the 13th five year plan will come to an end. Already,
there is about 22,000 MW of installed capacity of wind energy in the country. Like the Solar
Mission, the Wind Mission will be serviced by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
The Health Ministry, meanwhile, has been working on finalising a ‘mission’ on dealing with
climate impacts on human health — an area that got overlooked when the original eight missions
were being finalised. The ‘mission’ is likely to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the kind
of effects climate change is likely to have on human health in different regions of the country
and build up capacities to respond to these and also to health emergencies arising out of natural
disasters.
The ‘mission’ on India’s coastal areas will prepare an integrated coastal resource management
plan and map vulnerabilities along the entire nearly 7000-km long shoreline. The Environment

5. Ministry, which already regulates activities along India’s coasts through the Coastal Regulation
Zone (CRZ) rules, is supposed to house and service this mission.
The waste-to-energy mission will incentivise efforts towards harnessing energy from all kinds of
waste and is again aimed at lowering India’s dependence on coal, oil and gas, for power
production.
The four ‘missions’ have to be put before the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change for
the final approval before they can be launched.
The PM Council, which gives direction to climate policy, was reconstituted by the new
government in the first week of November.
Apart from launching the new ‘missions’, the PM Council is also due to review the performance
of the existing eight ‘missions’, many of which have remained mostly ineffective. These
‘missions’ are likely to be strengthened and given a new direction by the Council with higher
performance targets, just like it was done for the Solar Mission some time ago.
THE MISSIONS POSSIBLE:
Wind energy
 Modelled on National Solar Mission
 To be serviced by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
 To produce 50,000-60,000 MW of power by 2022
Human health
 Assess impact of climate change on human health
 Build up capacities to respond to these
 Being looked after by Health Ministry
Coastal resources
 Prepare integrated coastal resource management plan
 Map vulnerabilities along the entire shoreline
 Environment Ministry to look after the mission
Waste-to-energy
 Incentivise efforts towards harnessing energy from waste
 Lower dependence on coal, oil, gas
 Make power production a more earth-friendly process