The Bihar government has come up with a comprehensive plan to check all forms of pollution in the state.S. Chandrashekhar, member secretary Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB), said that the department is going to install 24 monitoring .
NEW DELHI: The Bihar government on Friday signed MoU with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to jointly work on a low carbon development pathway for eventually achieving carbon neutrality in due course.
The UNEP, under the MoU, will provide technical assistance to the state to prepare its greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory, carry out climate impact scenarios and vulnerability assessments, prepare a strategy for a climate resilient and low carbon economy, and suggest revisions to the State Action Plan of Climate Change (SAPCC).
It is expected that the joint works over the course of next few months will pave the way for other states to embark on the journey of climate resilience and low carbon development in sync with India’s commitment of climate action under the Paris Agreement.
Bihar to chalk out climate resilient pathway with UNEP help
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. (Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui/IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Patna, Feb 13 : Bihar is set to prepare a strategy for a climate resilient and low carbon development pathway with the support of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
An MoU has been signed between the government of Bihar and the UNEP to outline the support, which includes technical advice and review as well as advocacy support for stakeholder action.
Bihar is a rapidly growing economy and is committed to environmental sustainability by moving towards a climate resilient and low carbon development pathway. At the same time, Bihar is also a state that is highly vulnerable to climate change, which threatens to undermine its developmental efforts.
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In a file photo from 2004, a woman from West Bengal shows her wrinkled hands, a condition caused by drinking arsenic-contaminated water. (Reuters)
Studies suggest that early 10 million people in India have been exposed to groundwater contaminated with arsenic.
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Seventy-year-old Priya Brath Sharma from Bihar’s Munger district, who has been bedridden for many years, is one among a million cases of arsenic poisoning reported in India. “I have stopped walking for many years as the lower body doesn’t move. I also went to AIIMS for treatment some years back, they said that it was Arsenic-related disease,” he said.