Sustainable Development and Climate Change

Compared to 2009, there has been a net increase of 23.34 sq. km in Indias mangrove
cover

Millennium Development Goals Vs SDGs

Recently President of India as well as the Prime Minister emphasized the need for
sustainability and announced the launch of a Swachh Bharat Mission for ensuring
hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation.

Sustainable Development Financing

The developing countries including India have been stressing that Common but
Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR) and equity must continue to be the bedrock of
ongoing and future sustainable development financing

Climate Change
Domestic Plans
National Action Plan on Climate Change:
National Solar Mission
National Mission on Sustainable Habitat (NMSH)
National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency
National Water Mission

National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan

Ecosystem
National Mission for a Green India
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture

National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate

Change

26 States have prepared their state action plan

International Negotiations
COP 19 WarsawAgreement
Climate Change Finance
Carbon Market

National Clean Energy Fund

Global Environment Fund

Human development index (HDI) in terms of three basic parameters:

to live a long and healthy life,
to be educated and knowledgeable,
and to enjoy a decent economic standard of living.

Indian Rank 135

Inclusive Development and Key Social Sector Programme
Poverty Alleviation and Employment generation
MGNREGA : Not less than 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a
financial year to every rural household, with one-third participation of women,
through creation of assets that address causes of chronic poverty like drought,
deforestation.
Wages indexed to the consumer price index for agricultural labour (CPI-AL),
the average wage under the scheme has increased from 65 in FY 2006-07 to
132 in FY 2013-14, resulting in improvement in the bargaining power of
agriculture labour
National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) - Aajeevika:
NRLM aims at organizing all rural poor households and continuously
nurturing and supporting them till they emerge out of abject poverty, by
organizing one woman member from each household into aff inity- based
women self-help groups (SHGs)
Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)/ National Urban Livelihoods
Mission (NULM)
Provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed and underemployed.
Mission aims at providing shelter with basic amenities to urban homeless.
It also plans to address livelihood concerns of urban street vendors.