A Critical Study of National Action Plan on climate change and State Action Plan on climate change

A wide pool of environmental challenges confront us today which is leading to continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on which we depend for our well being. The pressing problems related to climate change and environmental management is definitely an urgent call for enhancing the ways of sustainable development. A significant global initiative emerged in 1992 in the form of an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Countries joined in to consider cooperatively what they could do to limit average global temperature increase and the resulting climate change. In line with global commitment and responsibility, India has taken up a major initiative in the form of National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) and attempts are made to link State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) with NAPCC on the same ground. Sustainable development is the priority agenda of the NAPCC and SAPCC. The paper focuses on the goals of NAPCC and analyses the journey so far on the part of NAPCC and SAPCC. The hurdles faced by NAPCC and SAPCC are provided with appropriate suggestions to speed up the mission of sustainable development.