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Critical Topics and Their Significance for the UPSC CSE Examination on December 21, 2024
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For Preliminary Examination: Current events of National and International significance
For Mains Examination: GS II & GS III - Government Policies in tackling Climate Change, Environment & Ecology
Context:
National Mission for a Green India (GIM) is one of the eight Missions outlined under the National Action Plan on Climate Change
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Key takeaways:
- The National Mission for a Green India, commonly referred to as the Green India Mission (GIM), is one of the eight missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).
- Launched in February 2014, its primary goal is to safeguard the nation's biological resources and associated livelihoods from the threats posed by climate change, while emphasizing the critical role of forestry in ecological sustainability, biodiversity conservation, and ensuring food, water, and livelihood security.
- GIM aims to protect, restore, and enhance India's forest cover in response to climate change through both adaptation and mitigation measures, adopting a comprehensive approach to greening that goes beyond tree planting.
- The mission focuses on various ecosystem services, including biodiversity, water, biomass, and the preservation of mangroves, wetlands, and critical habitats, in addition to carbon sequestration.
- The mission's objectives include increasing forest and tree cover, improving the quality of existing forests, enhancing ecosystem services such as biodiversity and carbon sequestration, and improving hydrological services.
- It also aims to provide provisioning services like fuel, fodder, timber, and non-timber forest products, and to boost forest-based livelihood incomes for communities living in and around forests.
- The integration of traditional ecological knowledge, forestry science, and advanced technology is expected to enhance the effectiveness of the mission's interventions.
- GIM seeks to converge with complementary schemes and programs for better coordination in developing forests and their surrounding areas sustainably and holistically. A multidisciplinary team, including both government and NGO representatives, will facilitate planning and implementation at the cluster or landscape unit level.
- The mission's landscape approach, which treats large contiguous areas of forest and non-forest land at different scales, is designed to better meet national and state forest policy targets.
- An integrated cross-sectoral approach will be applied to both public and private lands, with active involvement from grassroots organizations and local communities in planning, decision-making, implementation, and monitoring.
- Additionally, GIM will address the factors contributing to deforestation across the country, emphasizing processes to halt 'de-greening'
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