The National Action Plan on Climate Change released today by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh looks up to solar power apart from seven other strategies to achieve sustainable development.
The Plan has been prepared under the guidance and direction of Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change.
The action plan, which has an accent on energy efficiency and cleaner technology, includes eight national missions on solar energy, enhancing energy efficiency, sustainable habitat, water conservation, for sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem, creating a "Green India", sustainable agriculture, and establishing a strategic knowledge platform for climate change.
"Our vision is to make India's economic development energy-efficient. Over a period of time, we must pioneer a graduated shift from economic activity based on fossil fuels to the one based on non-fossil fuels, and from reliance on non-renewable and depleting sources of energy to renewable sources of energy, the prime minister said.
The prime minister said the country's per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions would at no point be allowed to exceed the per capita GHG emissions of developed countries, "despite our developmental imperatives".
He clarified that the National Action Plan would evolve and change in the light of changing circumstances.
He invited broader interaction with the society to improve the plan.
