10th Feb 2022 11:02:PM State
Eastern Sentinel Arunachal News

Itanagar, Feb. 10: In a review meeting on Pakke Declaration, Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar said that the Pakke Declaration is an initiative of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh to fight climate change and achieve the target of net zero carbon emissions by the year 2047.
In the meeting, the actions undertaken by the Departments concerned post adoption of the Pakke Tiger Reserve 2047 Declaration on Climate Change Resilient and Responsive Arunachal Pradesh (Pakke Declaration) in November 2021 were reviewed.
In order to tackle and mitigate climate change impacts in the State and realize climate resilient and responsive landscapes in tune with the national policies on climate change response, the Departments were asked by the Chief Secretary to abide by the five broad themes or the Panch Dhara and the underlying seventy five strategies of the Pakke Declaration in the Action Plan.
The Panch Dhara of the Pakke Declaration are Environment Forest and Climate Change; Health Well-Being of All; Sustainable and Adaptive Living; Livelihoods and Opportunities; Evidence Generation and Collaborative Action.
He further asked them to remain in touch and closely work with other Government departments on the adaptation measures of the Pakke Declaration by the Government establishments.
The meeting took a decision to organise a Global Climate Conclave on the theme, ‘Climate Friendly Technology’ in Arunachal Pradesh in October 2022.
Chief Conservator of Forest Shri. Rajesh S. presented the progress of the implementation of the Action Plan under the Pakke Declaration for the year 2022-23.
Setting up of the Secretariat of the Pakke Declaration 2047, development of a DashBoard for monitoring the actions under the Pakke Declaration and website for the Secretariat of the Pakke Declaration, leveraging carbon credits for the actions under the Pakke Declaration, capacity building of Panchayati Raj Institutions for grass root level action under Pakke Declaration were some of the important points discussed in the meeting.
Principal Secretary Home Rajeev Verma, Principal Secretary Finance Dr. Sharat Chauhan, Commissioner Power Kaling Tayeng, Commissioner Planning P.S. Lokhande, Commissioner Education Padmini Singla, Secretary Agri-Horti B. Tayeng, Secretary Transport  D. Salu and other senior officers were present in the meeting at Civil Secretariat, today.


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