A state-level Climate Change Knowledge Centre (CCLC) will be opened in Lucknow and it will develop communication materials for climate change awareness and networking with national and international technical institutions.
This was disclosed by Environment Minister Dr Arun Kumar Saxena during a workshop organised here with the aim to bridge the policy and research-level gaps in the domain of climate action.
The workshop was organised by the Environment, Forest and Climate Change department.
The minister urged all the participating officials to ensure that the findings of the research presented in the workshop are included in the policies formulated by the department, so that the state gets prepared for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
“The Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India has given approval to the state government to set up a Climate Change Knowledge Centre in the state under the Strategic Knowledge Mission of the Climate Change Action Plan. The state-level Climate Change Knowledge Centre will function from the Gomti Nagar office of the environment directorate,†Dr Saxena said.
The minister further said that as part of the initiative under the Uttar Pradesh State Knowledge Network, the Environment, Forest and Climate Change department would also develop a social networking platform, ‘Shelter’, for the people of the state. He said this was proposed to be done in collaboration with Tattva Foundation, Lucknow and Gorakhpur Environment Action Group.
“The platform will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to exchange personalised climate change related information in regional languages,†the minister said.
Additional Chief Secretary (Environment, Forest and Climate Change) Manoj Singh highlighted the importance of research in the field of climate action and the importance of research findings in the policies by highlighting the causes, effects and need to understand climate change.
Prof Anil Kumar Gupta, head of department, National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi, made a presentation on ‘Resilience and Sustainability’. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Mamta Sanjeev Dubey presented her views on localisation of climate change.
In the workshop, officials from various departments of the state as well as the Indian Institute of Management. Lucknow, Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), research institutes like Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Central Agroforestry Research Institute, Bhimrao Ambedkar Institute and Banaras Hindu University and Vasudha Foundation, AEEE, and NABARD presented their views.
