Gandhinagar(Gujarat): Gujarat government on Tuesday announced a new department to address issues of climate change and global warming , to be headed by chief minister Narendra Modi till a full time minister is appointed.
Officials here said Gujarat will be the first state in Asia and fourth province in the world to dedicate a department to global warming and climate change. "Gujarat has made efforts to get maximum carbon credits and currently has 29 per cent share of the entire country's carbon credit," Modi told the state Assembly. Under the green credit movement, if someone cuts trees to set up an industry he would have to replace with the same number of full grown trees, he said.
Thirty-nine clean energy initiatives of energy and petrochemicals, urban transportation, forest and environment, rural development and industries and mines will fall under this new department. It will carry out a study on the impact of global warming along the state's 1600-km coastline.
Officials here said Gujarat will be the first state in Asia and fourth province in the world to dedicate a department to global warming and climate change. "Gujarat has made efforts to get maximum carbon credits and currently has 29 per cent share of the entire country's carbon credit," Modi told the state Assembly. Under the green credit movement, if someone cuts trees to set up an industry he would have to replace with the same number of full grown trees, he said.
Thirty-nine clean energy initiatives of energy and petrochemicals, urban transportation, forest and environment, rural development and industries and mines will fall under this new department. It will carry out a study on the impact of global warming along the state's 1600-km coastline.
[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 25 Feb 2009]
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