Delhi has put forward its current plan for fighting climate change to the centre by 2019 but this has “remained mostly on paper and could not be implemented properly” said a senior official at the environmental agency.
The centre, which created the National Plan for Climate Change in 2009, urged states to draw up their own specific plans to address climate change.
But Delhi has set out its plan to tackle climate change in 2019, making it the last state to do so.
‘The plan could not be implemented and it expired in 2020. Now, we are due a new plan,’ the official quoted as saying.
The Action Plan will identify activities leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions, and will establish the departments responsible for these activities.
It is considered likely that the new plan will involve a German agency as a partner.
The Environment Ministry has asked the Union’s Environment Ministry to release €20 million (£5.6 million) to draw up the plan.
All extreme weather events of the past 10 years will be examined in order to set up a broad plan that will focus on air pollution, emissions of greenhouse gases, renewable energies, transportation issues, air conditioning, heat islands, agricultural patterns, etc., the official announced.
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