GOI & IIMB workshop on Financing Strategies for State Action Plans on Climate Change
The workshop on Financing Strategies for State Action Plans on Climate Change jointly organized by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and supported by DFID was held at IIMB campus on September 17, 2012. Dr A Damodaran, Professor Economics and Social Sciences at IIMB, and Rajasree Ray, Additional Economic Advisor coordinated and steered the workshop. The workshop was the first of one of its kind where key stakeholders discussed and proposed options and strategies for financing SAPCCs that had been formulated by 22 States of the Indian Union.
Honourable MPs Sandeep Dikshit from East Delhi Constituency; Jayaprakash Hegde from Udupi Chikmagalur Constituency and Prakash Javadekar addressed the delegates on the importance of development and livelihoods in relation to SAPCCs at a Special post Lunch Session.
The chief recommendations of the Workshop were that while public financing was the core mode for funding SAPCCs there was also the need to explore the role of the private sector and multilateral development agencies in supporting the Action Plans. The principles of allocation of funds for the SAPCCs needed to be based on the idea of integration of SAPCC to the development processes. The workshop also highlighted the importance of decentralized approaches to SAPCC at the local level with special focus on local self governments, whose financial resource base had to be re-assessed and improved.
Speakers at the Workshop
S V Ranganath, Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka; Phil Marker, Counselor and Head, British High Commission; Dr. A Damodaran, Professor, Economics & Social Sciences, IIMB; Dr. Prodipto Ghosh, Member, PM's Council on Climate Change, Dr. Dipak Dasgupta, Principal Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Government of India; L V Nagarajan, Additional Chief Secretary, Karnataka; Mr. Mt Iqbal Singh Bains, Principal Secretary, Government of Madhya Pradesh; Dr. Arunabha Ghosh, Chief Executive Officer, Council on Energy Environment and Water; Amit Narang, Deputy Secretary (UNES), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India; Greg Briffa, Team Leader - Climate and Development I - Climate, Energy and Growth Unit, DFID, India; Paul Steel, Environment Adviser, United Nations Development Program; Enrico Rubertus, Climate Policy Advisor, Indo-German Environment Programme, GIZ; Dr. Muthukumar Mani, Senior Environmental Economist, World Bank; H Harish Hande, Managing Director, Selco India; Kanwarpal, Secretary Department of Ecology and Environment, Government of Karnataka, R M N Sahai, APCCF and Director General, Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute (EMPRI); Dr. R S Deshpande, Director, ISEC; Professor Gopal Naik, IIM Bangalore; Dr Sarvesh, Commissioner Agriculture, Government of Karnataka; Dr Koeyal Mandal of IFMR; Dr K N Murthy, Additional PCCF, Karnataka; S N A Jinnah, CGM, NABARD; Professor Joyashree Roy, Jadhavpur University; Dr. Anil Kumar Gupta, Associate Professor, National Institute of Disaster Management; Dr. Prasad Modak, CEO, Environmental Management Centre, Mumbai and Pradeep Singh, Government of Gujarat.
GOI & IIMB workshop on Financing Strategies for State Action Plans on Climate Change
The workshop on Financing Strategies for State Action Plans on Climate Change jointly organized by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and supported by DFID was held at IIMB campus on September 17, 2012. Dr A Damodaran, Professor Economics and Social Sciences at IIMB, and Rajasree Ray, Additional Economic Advisor coordinated and steered the workshop. The workshop was the first of one of its kind where key stakeholders discussed and proposed options and strategies for financing SAPCCs that had been formulated by 22 States of the Indian Union.
Honourable MPs Sandeep Dikshit from East Delhi Constituency; Jayaprakash Hegde from Udupi Chikmagalur Constituency and Prakash Javadekar addressed the delegates on the importance of development and livelihoods in relation to SAPCCs at a Special post Lunch Session.
The chief recommendations of the Workshop were that while public financing was the core mode for funding SAPCCs there was also the need to explore the role of the private sector and multilateral development agencies in supporting the Action Plans. The principles of allocation of funds for the SAPCCs needed to be based on the idea of integration of SAPCC to the development processes. The workshop also highlighted the importance of decentralized approaches to SAPCC at the local level with special focus on local self governments, whose financial resource base had to be re-assessed and improved.
Speakers at the Workshop
S V Ranganath, Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka; Phil Marker, Counselor and Head, British High Commission; Dr. A Damodaran, Professor, Economics & Social Sciences, IIMB; Dr. Prodipto Ghosh, Member, PM's Council on Climate Change, Dr. Dipak Dasgupta, Principal Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Government of India; L V Nagarajan, Additional Chief Secretary, Karnataka; Mr. Mt Iqbal Singh Bains, Principal Secretary, Government of Madhya Pradesh; Dr. Arunabha Ghosh, Chief Executive Officer, Council on Energy Environment and Water; Amit Narang, Deputy Secretary (UNES), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India; Greg Briffa, Team Leader - Climate and Development I - Climate, Energy and Growth Unit, DFID, India; Paul Steel, Environment Adviser, United Nations Development Program; Enrico Rubertus, Climate Policy Advisor, Indo-German Environment Programme, GIZ; Dr. Muthukumar Mani, Senior Environmental Economist, World Bank; H Harish Hande, Managing Director, Selco India; Kanwarpal, Secretary Department of Ecology and Environment, Government of Karnataka, R M N Sahai, APCCF and Director General, Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute (EMPRI); Dr. R S Deshpande, Director, ISEC; Professor Gopal Naik, IIM Bangalore; Dr Sarvesh, Commissioner Agriculture, Government of Karnataka; Dr Koeyal Mandal of IFMR; Dr K N Murthy, Additional PCCF, Karnataka; S N A Jinnah, CGM, NABARD; Professor Joyashree Roy, Jadhavpur University; Dr. Anil Kumar Gupta, Associate Professor, National Institute of Disaster Management; Dr. Prasad Modak, CEO, Environmental Management Centre, Mumbai and Pradeep Singh, Government of Gujarat.