Climate Change mitigation projects

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Climate Change mitigation projects

• - Practical aspects in Uttaranchal context

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My presentation

• How to mitigate climate change
• How to increase C sequestration
• What to do and what not to do
• Practical aspects

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Uttaranchal

• Area 53483 sq.km
• Forest area 34662 sq.km
• 64.8
• 4.5 of Indias forests
• Forest Cover 23938 sq.km
• 44.8
• Dense 19023 sq.km
• Open -- 4915 sq.km

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Climate change

• Recession of glaciers
• Decrease in snowfall
• Ganga stopped !

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Causes

• Construction/Land transfer
• Fires
• Dependence on Fuel and fodder
• Global warming

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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

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Required

• Afforestation or densification and not plantation
• Avoid wasting money in tree planting in natural
  grasslands and scrublands
• Alternate livelihood

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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

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Hence,

• Pulpwood plantations should be done only on
  marginal crop lands, degraded farm land, etc. and
  not on existing unproductive forests

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Conversion of Sal to Teak

• Teak is deciduous / Sal is evergreen
• No undergrowth
• Low decomposition (20 degree Celsius)
• Low C sequestration
• Soil erosion

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Therefore,

• Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR) of Sal areas
• Teak plantation to be stopped in Sal areas

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Encroachment of Chir Pine in Oak Areas

• Due to wrong plantation
• Excess grazing
• Soil erosion
• Resulting in
• Low C seq
• Low undergrowth
• Low decomposition
• Increase fire hazard

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What to do

• ANR Oak
• Protection
• Right plantation
• Alternate livelihood to decrease dependency

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Sheesham wilt

• All along the base of himalayas
• Many theories
• Succession stage, siltation or climate change?

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Biodiversity

• Indicators of climate change
• Hence to be monitored

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Allow natural succession

• No mining
• No plantation
• No other activities

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Save all ecosystems

• There are species which like climates we dont
  like