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10.0 NATIONAL POLICY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION Climate change is a problem that is inherently different from other environmental problems with which humanity has grapled, because, the assumption that prior experience with other air pollution problems is a good model upon which to base climate policy responses fails at many levels. The consequences of climate change will be faced primarily by those who are alive in the future. The present generation has inherited the atmosphere and associated climate from its ancestors. Options to mitigate climate change include actual emission reductions and carbon dioxide sequestration, investments in developing technologies that will make future reductions cheap relative to their current costs. The Govt. of India has been an active participant in the climate charge negotiations since the inception of UNFCC in 1992. India is a party to the UNFCC and was the 38th country to ratify it on November 01, 1993. The Ministry of Environment & Forests is the nodal Ministry for all environment related activities in the country and is the nodal Ministry for co-ordinating the climate charge policy as well. The working group on the FCCC was constituted to overseas the implementation of obligations under the FCCC and to act as a consultative mechanism in the Govt. for impacts to policy formulation on climate change. To enlarge the feedback mechanism the Govt. of India has constituted an Advisory group on climate charge under the chairmanship of the Minister of Environment & Forests. The policy of the Govt. of India on reduction of GHG emission is based on three broad principles viz. that the primary responsibility of reducing
GHG emission is that of developed countries, and hence should show a demonstrable
sincerity in initiating actions to address climate change;
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