National Action Plan on Climate change

• Background: The NAPCC was released in 2008.  The NAPCC identifies measures that promote development objectives while also yielding co-benefits for addressing climate change effectively.

There are eight National Missions on climate change

• National Solar Mission: To achieve 280GW of installed solar capacity by 2030
• National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEE): To strengthen the market for energy efficiency by creating conducive regulatory and policy regime. 
• National Mission on Sustainable Habitat: Improvements in energy efficiency, Management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), and Promote urban public transport.
• National Water Mission: Conserving water, ensuring more equitable distribution through integrated water resource management and facilitating water use efficiency by 20%
• National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Eco-system (NMSHE): Empowering local communities especially Panchayats to play a greater role in managing ecological resources
• National Mission for a Green India (NMGI): Enhancing ecosystem services such as carbon sinks. It is to be implemented on degraded forest land through Joint Forest Management Committees set up under State Departments of Forest. 
• National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA): To make Indian agriculture more resilient to climate change by identifying new varieties of crops, especially thermal resistant ones and alternative cropping patterns
• National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change: Strives to work with the global community in research and technology development and will also have its own research agenda supported by a Climate Research Fund