Yes, our government has taken up several measures to handle climate change. Though we call ourselves a developing nation and identify that we contribute not much in terms of carbon emissions, global climate change has been taken quite seriously over here.

There are projects at national level as well as state level. However, we found that most of these are handled in terms of awareness among the general public to contribute in carbon reduction.Hence many projects are based on afforestation and reduction in use of fossil fuels.Some of the initiatives taken up in our country are listed below:

1. Establishing National Green Corps which has its branch in every state to monitor and conduct programs related to climate and environment through education and awareness campaigns. The also train educators.

2. Center for Environment Education is an apex body which also has its branches through out the country which deals with eduation and other community level prjects related to broad aspects of enironment including climate change.

3.Last September, we attended for a competetion(Project Green-i) on carbon footprint the Green Building Congress in our city which was conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industries that was mainly based on sustainabl;e development.

4. There are many NGOs which work in collaboration with the government for the betterment of the environment.

5.There is a master plan of generating Power through solar panels and contribution of the same to the power grid.This is in planning stage and we are actually waiting for it to get started.

We feel that, it does'nt matter, how much your government or its policies is doing for the environment. But it certainly matters if you as an individual are contributing your bit in reducing carbon emissions (eg. Walk for short distances, rather than using vehicles).Thus we all, the global citizens would make our respective governments look back!!!