Green policies of India

• • National Clean Energy Fund
  • Compensatory Afforestation Fund.
  • National Environmental Policy, 2006
  • articulates that only such development is sustainable which respects ecological constraints and the imperatives of social justice
  • National Agricultural Policy
  •  focuses on sustainable development of agriculture by promoting technically sound and economically viable, environmentally non-degrading, and socially acceptable uses of the country’s natural resources
  • National Electricity Policy
  •  underscores the use of renewable sources of energy
  • National Action Plan on Climate Change
  • provides a clear strategy for addressing the challenges posed by climate change
  • voluntary domestic commitment to reduce, by the year 2020, the emissions intensity of our GDP by 20-25 percent as compared to 2005 levels
  • Emissions Trading Schemes
  • to reduce the level of ambient air pollution near major industrial clusters
  • “greening” rural development
  • regenerate and conserve the natural resource base
  • use clean materials, technologies and processes to create environment friendly products
  • strengthen the climate resilience of the rural poor