Call for decisive actions to counter negative impact of climate change on people and resources 

Madurai holds a Climate Change workshop to develop strategies for adaptation and mitigation at the district level.

The District Climate Change Mission to formulate specific adaptation and mitigation strategies to address rapid climate change at the district level was held a Climate Change workshop here on Wednesday. 

Following the State government’s Tamil Nadu Climate Change Mission, workshops were being conducted in various districts to instruct and educate various stakeholders, including officials, on their role in achieving carbon neutral much ahead of the nation’s target of 2070. 

As part of the initiative, the workshop which was organised by the Department of Environment and Climate Change was a call for purposeful and decisive actions on climate change to mitigate its impacts on environment, human lives, economic assets and activities.   

The workshop’s key focus was on prioritising adaptation and mitigation planning for various sectors in districts that urgently required attention. Another activity was conducting capacity-building workshops for local communities and government-line departments.  

Scientific evidence on Climate Change at both regional and global platforms, with emphasis on successful indigenous and technological interventions, was demonstrated by a faculty of the Climate Change mitigation lab of Anna University.  

Collector M.S. Sangeetha, in her address, said that working towards mitigation was the priority area. Lately, some of the traumatic incidents that happened in the State induced by Climate Change had taught the importance of moving towards sustainable living to at least postpone the adverse effects, she added.  

“Efforts to reduce plastics and fossil fuels, should be initiated by each one of us at an individual level,” said Ms. Sangeetha.