Assessment of National and

State Action Plans for Climate

Change for the state of Assam

Status and implementation of national and state plan for

climate change - Guwahati Master Plan 2025

Presented by:
Karthik Girish and Ishita Saraswat
aim 1.Understand the missions and approaches provided in the National Action Plan for
Climate Change.
2.Understand the missions adopted by the Assam State Action Plan for Climate Change.
3.Assess the current Master Plan for Guwahati with the above documents based on level
of implementation and status of adaptation.
4.Suggest ideas which can close the gap of inclusion within the Master Plan of Guwahati.

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contents
| Selecting Guwahati
| NAPCC and its 8 missions
| SAPCC and adopted missions 3

| Comparing both action plans

| Assessing Guwahati Master Plan
| Conclusion and suggestions
SOURCES
1. National Action Plan for Climate Change
2. Assam State Action Plan for Climate Change
3. Master Plan for Guwahati Metropolitan Area - 2025
selecting Guwahati
National Action
2008 Plan for Climate
1.Eco sensitive site Change (NAPCC)
2.Growing urbanisation
3.Primate city of NE region of India 4
4.Only gateway to NE region of India Master Plan for Guwahati
2009 Metropolitan Area 2025
5.Located next to Brahmaputra River

State Action
2015 Plan for Climate
CHange (SAPCC)
napcc It is an action plan framed under the
responsibilities of UNFCC (United Nations
Framework Convention of Climate Change). It
aims to identify measures to tackle the
global challenges of climate change.

01 02 03
5
Water Enhanced Sustainable
Energy Habitat
Efficiency

04 05 06 07 08

Sustainable Green India Solar Sustaining Strategic

Agriculture Himalayan Knowledge for
Ecosystem Climate Change
sapcc Principles of adaption followed while
developing the Assam SAPCC are as follows:
1. Ensuring sustainability of water resources
2. Ensuring sustainability of agriculture
01 02 03 systems
3. Protection and conservation of forests and 6
Water Enhanced Sustainable
Energy Habitat
bio resource within
Efficiency 4. Making habitats climate resilient
5. Ensuring energy sufficiency and efficiency
04 05 6. Addressing enhanced impacts of
anticipated extreme events
Sustainable Green India
Agriculture
 |01|
WATER DEMAND
National Ensuring water for irrigation in long dry period
Water Mission Meeting demand for fish
Meeting potable water demand
Meeting the demand of industry

FLOOD MANAGEMENT 7
River Bank Stabilisation
|SAPCC| Maintaining embankments for flood protection
Ensuring Flood Modelling Studies
sustainability of Flood Early Warning System
water resources Housing
Paddy Cultivation
 |02|
ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY
National Mission for
Augmentation of power
Enhanced Energy Capacity generation
Efficiency Increasing demand

ENERGY EFFICIENCY 8
Energy conservation
|SAPCC| Energy incentives
Ensuring energy Generate financing for public-private partnerships
sufficiency and to reduce energy consumption
efficiency
 |03|
National Mission
WATER SUPPLY
for Sustainable ROAD TRANSPORT
Habitat INLAND WATER TRANSPORT
MUNICIPAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
AND SEWAGE TREATMENT
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HUMAN HEALTH
|SAPCC|
Making habitats All the above talk about proper augmentation and
climate resilient management
 |04| CROPS
National Mission Water for irrigation; degrading soil health; erratic floods; new pests

for Sustainable and pathogens

Agriculture HORTICULTURE
Rising ambient temperatures; heavier precipitation; erratic rains;
long dry periods

ASSAM TEA
Undulating physiography; erratic climate; shift in projections of tea 10

production due to climate change

|SAPCC|
Ensuring
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY & DAIRYING
Climate change concerns; adaptation strategies
sustainability of
agriculture systems FISHIERIES
Rising temperatures; erratic rainfall patterns and extreme weather
events
 |05|
FORESTS AND BIODIVERSITY
National Mission
Reducing Degradation and Deforestation
for Green India
Improving carbon sequestering capacities of forests

Improving resilience of wildlife

Empowering local communities to take charge and benefit from 11

biological diversity
|SAPCC|
Improving adaptability of forestry-ecosystems and dependent
Protection and
communities through research, innovations and use of appropriate
conservation of
technologies
forests and bio
resource within
 master plan
1. The Master Plan of Guwahati does not specifically mention any of the
aforementioned strategies or mission provided by the NAPCC or the SAPCC.

2. However, from the master plans perspective, there are some actions that have
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been envisaged by the master plan that indirectly try to achieve the missions:

Environment regulations on urban transport, like pollution check, public

transport initiatives, clean fuel, etc.

Brahmaputra is to be cleaned as it is the major source of water.

Drainage issues to be channelised by making more basins.

Landfills to be proposed
 master plan
3. In the environment chapter, only the following actions are mentioned

Scientific and systematic management of the liquid wastes.

The mass rapid transport system to reduce the vehicle on the road to reduce
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the air pollution.
Industries in the region and within Guwahati to follow the PCB norms.

Preparation of landscape plans, and large scale plantation.

conclusion
1.The Master plan does not imply any
proposal or guidance from any of the
NAPCC

action plans. Solar

Sustaining Himalayan Ecosystem
2.The SAPCC is well defined and covers the Strategic Knowledge for Climate
aspects of NAPCC. Change
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3.It also details out the funding source. SAPCC
4.Master plan does not specify any such
Water
funds and also doesn't make use of these. Energy Efficiency
5.These all can be a reason because the Sustainable Habitat
Sustainable Agriculture
SAPCC was delayed after the master plan. Green India
Guwahati
6.No initiative to implement SAPCC Master Plan
proposals in the city were made there
after.
suggestions
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There is mention of environment planning and conservation group for master plan
monitoring on the basis of these aspects. This group has not yet been formed. It
should be formed so that it can reassess the existing situation and try to work with
the NAPCC and SAPCC.
thanks
for patiently listening