Tamil Nadu budget to allocate for climate change mitigation efforts

The Tamil Nadu government is set to provide allocation for climate change mitigation efforts in the revised state budget for the financial year 2021-22.

A senior official with the Department of Environment, Tamil Nadu told IANS that the budget which is to be presented in the house on August 13 is likely to have a good allocation for working on the climate change and warnings from experts on the erosion of the Tamil Nadu coastline.

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin in his inaugural address in an international seminar on ‘Ensuring food and nutrition security in the context of climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic’, organized by the MSSRF, said that the state government identifies climate change as a major issue to be tackled effectively with all the resources.

The report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated the possibility of extreme weather in Tamil Nadu creating major threat to the coastline in the state. NASA in its study based on IPCC report has warned that Chennai as one of the 12 coastal cities in India may be submerged underwater by the end of the century.

The Tamil Nadu government has already prepared a report to revise the state action plan on climate change following suggestion from the Union Environment Ministry.