Environment Ministry holds third regional workshop with State governments
In an
effort to provide hands-on training to State government officials for
formulating and submitting proposals for accessing climate change
finance under the National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change (NAFCC),
Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Adaptation Fund Board (AFB), the
Environment Ministry held the third regional workshop with State
governments in Bengaluru on April 11-12, 2016. Fourteen States/Union
Territories (U.T.s) from the southern and western regions of the country
participated in the workshop.
Inaugurating the workshop, Special Secretary, MoEF&CC, Shri Susheel
Kumar, emphasized the need for generating good quality project proposals
in a time-bound manner, which have full ownership by the State
government departments. It is anticipated that the project benefits will
continue to flow in a sustainable manner after project completion.
The NAFCC was established in 2015 to assist National and State level
activities to meet the cost of adaptation measures in areas that are
particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. In
2015 under the NAFCC, twelve projects submitted by Punjab, Odisha,
Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Jammu & Kashmir,
Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Telangana and Puducherry have been
approved at a total cost of Rs. 235.17 Cr and Rs. 118.33 Cr. has already
been released.
GCF is a financial mechanism under United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which aims to mobilize unprecedented levels
of funding to invest in low-emission and climate-resilient development.
The GCF Empowered Committee headed by Secretary, MoEF&CC approved,
in principle, two project concept notes of Government of Odisha and
Government of Haryana with a total project cost of USD 31.63 million
(Rs. 211 Cr.) and USD 46.39 million (Rs. 310 Cr.) respectively in
2015-16. It is expected that the participants will acquire the
requisite knowledge and expertise for preparing the good quality
adaptation and mitigation projects for NAFCC and GCF for their
respective States by May 15, 2016.
Senior State government officials from Maharashtra, Telangana and
Karnataka participated in the workshop. This workshop was organised
jointly by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
(MoEF&CC) and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD), National Implementing Entity for National Adaptation Fund on
Climate Change (NAFCC) and Green Climate Fund (GCF). The discussions
were guided by Joint Secretary, MoEF&CC Shri Ravi S. Prasad and
Deputy Managing Director, NABARD Shri R. Amalorpavanathan.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has been
organizing regional workshops to support the State governments to
proactively pursue climate change adaptation and mitigation and building
their capacity for accessing climate change finance from domestic and
international sources. The first workshop had been organized in
January this year in Guwahati, Assam, for the eight States of the North
Eastern region and the second in February in Patna, Bihar, for four
States in the eastern region of the country.
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