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Climate Change mitigation
projects
- Practical aspects in Uttaranchal
context
My presentation
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How to mitigate climate change
How to increase C sequestration
What to do and what not to do
Practical aspects
Uttaranchal
• Area – 53483 sq.km
• Forest area – 34662 sq.km
– 64.8%
– 4.5% of India’s forests
• Forest Cover – 23938 sq.km
– 44.8%
– Dense – 19023 sq.km
– Open -- 4915 sq.km
Climate change
• Recession of glaciers
• Decrease in snowfall
• Ganga stopped !
Causes
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Construction/Land transfer
Fires
Dependence on Fuel and fodder
Global warming
FDA/ IAP project
• All government and community lands,
waste lands not put under construction have
been constituted as van panchayats
• 1650 ha in 66 villages out of 496 forest
panchayats
• CC mitigation projects can also be routed
through FDA
Required
• Afforestation or densification and not
plantation
• Avoid wasting money in tree planting in
natural grasslands and scrublands
• Alternate livelihood
Pulpwood vs. miscellaneous
forests
• Miscellaneous forests of Terai converted to
pulpwood plantation
• Agroforestry model adopted to prevent loss
of fertility
• Low decomposition; no ground flora; low C
sequestration
Hence,
• Pulpwood plantations should be done only
on marginal crop lands, degraded farm land,
etc. and not on existing ‘unproductive’
forests
Conversion of Sal to Teak
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Teak is deciduous / Sal is evergreen
No undergrowth
Low decomposition (20 degree Celsius)
Low C sequestration
Soil erosion
Therefore,
• Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR) of
Sal areas
• Teak plantation to be stopped in Sal areas
Encroachment of Chir Pine in
Oak Areas
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Due to wrong plantation
Excess grazing
Soil erosion
Resulting in
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Low C seq
Low undergrowth
Low decomposition
Increase fire hazard
What to do
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ANR Oak
Protection
Right plantation
Alternate livelihood to decrease
dependency
Sheesham wilt
• All along the base of himalayas
• Many theories
• Succession stage, siltation or climate
change?
Biodiversity
• Indicators of climate change
• Hence to be monitored
Allow natural succession
• No mining
• No plantation
• No other activities
Save all ecosystems
• There are species which like climates we
don’t like