User:Sparklehorse23/National Action Plan for Climate Change

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Status
As per news reports, the council heading NAPCC has no accountability. There is not much information available in public domain regarding the meetings help or the decisions taken in them. In total 10 ministries are involved in implementation and they took 6 years just to approve the 8 missions. '''In the period between 2008 and 2014, the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change (PMCCC) held eight meetings to further develop the eight subsidiary missions within the NAPCC framework. Following Modi entering power in May 2014, the council had only gathered once to discuss the national climate action with the PM in November that year, with no additional meeting arranged ever since . Furthermore, PMCCC only has six full-time staff since 2015, with three of them being scientists responsible for conducting the analysis needed .'''

'''In the National Solar Mission, while the original target was to reach 20 GW by the end of 2020, PM Modi revised the plan in 2015 to 100 GW. According to Modi at the Global Climate Ambition Summit 2020, the realized installed capacity was 36 GW .'''

The budget announced by the central government has also failed to meet the promises made. '''For example, as part of the initiating partners of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, Modi has proposed a $10 billion total investment to the World Solar Bank, yet is only willing to contribute $ 600 million. Furthermore, an estimation from the Ministry of Environment indicated that India would require $ 2.5 trillion of investments to fulfill its comprehensive climate goals, yet almost all of the amount needs to be raised from capital markets .'''

Drawbacks
According to news report, It has been hard to track status of different missions. While on one hand the officers are unwilling to give out details, on the other hand the budget heads and schemes are seeing constant changes which makes tracking very difficult. '''Furthermore, NAPCC never included a proposal that secure the source of investment needed. Lack of financial resources made it difficult for local governments to implement the proposed programs, resulted in meeting none of the targets for renewable energy sources, which include biomass, wind, solar, and small hydro .'''

'''The slow progress has also contributed to deteriorating farmer living standard as farmers experiencing frequent climate impacts while lacking the infrastructure and climate-related remedies proposed under NAPCC. As a result, farmers in India have experienced pressure from pressing debts, deteriorated soils, and lowered yields .'''