Chennai:
India is planning shelves of schemes that are consistent
with objectives of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and
advances the agenda of biodiversity and livelihood, according to Ministry of
Environment and Forests (MoEF) additional Secretary M F Farooqui.
Addressing
a press conference along with executive secretary of Secretariat to the
Convention on Biological Diversity Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias after the
inaugural session of Celebrations of The International Day For Biological
Diversity here on Tuesday, he said NREGA is only piece of law which guarantees
green jobs and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has written to a
number of ministries looking for a framework similar to that which can help
push the biodiversity agenda through their schemes.
Farooqi
said India had already signed Nagoya protocol on access to genetic resources
and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization
(ABS) to the convention on biological diversity and the ratification will be
done before 11th meeting of Conference of Parties to the Convention
on Biological Diversity.
He
said the 11th meeting of Conference of Parties (COP) to the
Convention on Biological Diversity in Hyderabad on October, the first in the
decade of biodiversity, will not only focus on coastal and marine biodiversity
but would also highlight on mobilization of resources.
Interestingly,
Dias raised the funding concerns following the financial crisis. “We failed to
reach agreement on real commitment on funding due to financial crisis,” he
said. Farooqi said India and the United Kingdom have jointly set up a high
level panel which would undertake a study to find out what is the global requirement
for meeting the strategic plan targets worldwide. “The first report would be
released during the COP.”
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