State Action Plan on Climate Change (Haryana).

After the India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) was announced all States have been asked to prepare a state level action plan to deal with challenges of climate change. The state level action plans are envisaged to be an extension of the NAPCC at various levels of governance aligned with the 8 National Missions. To synergize sustainable development and adaptation to climate change a list of programs and policies as perceived by the State have been identified by state sectoral departments. Forestry: Under the State Action Plan, both adaptation and mitigation projects could be proposed for addressing climate change impacts on forest ecosystems as well as to mitigate the climate change through enhancing the carbon sinks. Forests in Haryana are vulnerable to climate change risks and any afforestation/reforestation programme to be implemented under the Greening India Mission (GIM) could also be vulnerable to climate change impacts.