Tag: Tamil Nadu Climate

Tamil Nadu Climate Summit 2022 The first ever Tamil Nadu Climate Summit begins at Chennai. The Tamil Nadu Green Climate Change Company will focus on preparing decarbonisation pathways for various sectors; conceptualising and setting up finance models and a climate studio; climate budgeting; and partnerships with local agencies. Tamil Nadu Climate Summit 2022 highlighted the State's flagship missions and initiatives, one of which is the Green Climate Change Company, a special purpose vehicle to steer Tamil Nadu to become a climate smart State. The summit was inaugurated with three major missions of the State government Climate Change Mission - The mission will help to strengthen the government’s climate response at the grassroots. Green Tamil Nadu Mission - The mission aims to Increase the State’s green cover (areas including forest and the tree cover around it) from 23.71% to 33%. Tamil Nadu Wetlands Mission - It aims to restore 100 wetlands across the state in five years Climate-smart Agriculture  At the first Tamil Nadu climate conference hosted in the city the experts emphasised that being climate-smart is the only way to adapt to the effects of climate change on many sectors, especially agriculture. Presentations on diverse strategies for adaptation, problem- solving, and resilience to the effects of climate change on sectors like transport, agriculture, solid waste, innovation, and energy were given by experts from many professions, including the local communities. TN is preparing an inventory of greenhouse gases and has already completed it for Tirunelveli, Coimbatore and Trichy It was stated that real time crop advisory, use of drones to manage crops, and implementation of smart farming techniques using artificial intelligence were a few action points taken to achieve food security. Body worn cameras to monitor prisoners activities in TN jails Body worn cameras to monitor the activities of high-risk prisoners…