This State Action Plan on Climate Change is a state level plan to deal with challenges of climate change in Arunachal Pradesh. It is envisaged as an extension of India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change and is in alignment with the eight national missions thereunder. It consists of seven chapters: 1. Introduction; 2. Climate Current Baseline and Climate Projections; 3. State GHG Emission; 4. Climate Change Impacts and Vulnerability; 5. Present Policies & Programs and Linkages with NAPCC; 6. Sectoral Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan; and 7. Cross Cutting Issues and Integrated Approach. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the study and describes the key area with background information. Current observed climatology of Arunachal Pradesh and the predicted climate change analysis is covered in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 describes the GHG emissions in the state, sector-wise and district-wise. Impacts and vulnerability due to climate change on various sectors based scientific studies carried out at the national level is presented in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 covers details of ongoing projects addressing possible mitigation, local coping strategy and adaptation options in terms of present policies and programs of the state and linkages with NAPCC. Chapter 6 contains the strategies and actions plan for various sectors that are identified including Forestry, Agriculture, Livestock, Energy, Rural development and Health. Chapter 7 discusses the actions in respect of cross-sectoral issues critical to the management of climate change and advocates an integrated approach in addressing climate change.
Arunachal Pradesh (India) · 2011-07-01