Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco

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Ministry Objects to Panel’s Climate Draft, Funds Proposal

“The Environment Ministry has asked the Planning Commission to re-write the entire chapter on climate change in the 12th Five Year Plan after the ministry found key portions of the draft at variance with the country’s climate change goals and established stand on related matters.  Sources said Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan has written to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia highlighting the objections. The ministry has also sent its own version of the chapter in portions where it desires the changes incorporated.”

(The Indian Express, 8/25/2012)

Environment Ministry Writes to Plan Panel, Asks it to Rework Climate Change Chapter

“The Environment Ministry has asked the Planning Commission to re-write the entire chapter on climate change in the 12th Five Year Plan after the ministry found key portions of the draft at variance with the country’s climate change goals and established stand on related matters.  Sources said Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan has written to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia highlighting the objections. The ministry has also sent its own version of the chapter in portions where it ...

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