Implementation of Green syllabus to higher school students- proposal writing-national mission-climate change-activity for student-awareness-companion. A guide to present road map proposal in a human resources meeting.

1. National Mission for Green
India
in
School Education
A.M.Dhivakar and Pinal chauhan
Science Communicator
Centre for Environment Education

2. Curriculum planning
i. Planning a chapter in a text book to impart the
knowledge of forests, nature conservation and
multiple ecosystem services.
ii. Planning an exercise on biodiversity, water,
biomass, preserving mangroves, wetlands,
critical habitats etc.
iii. Planning nature camping programming to carbon
sequestration as a co-benefit.

3. Class 8- “National Mission for Green
India”(GIM)
The National Mission for Green India (GIM) is one of the eight Missions outlined
under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). It aims at protecting;
restoring and enhancing India’s diminishing forest cover and responding to
climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures. It
envisages a holistic view of greening and focuses on multiple ecosystem services,
especially, biodiversity, water, biomass, preserving mangroves, wetlands, critical
habitats etc. along with carbon sequestration as a co-benefit. This mission has
adopted an integrated cross-sectoral approach as it will be implemented on both
public as well as private lands with a key role of the local communities in
planning, decision making, implementation and monitoring.

4. Class 8-Activity
a. Tree plantation
b. Awareness
c. Day celebration

5. Class-9 “Sub Missions of Green India”
There are five Sub Missions, integrating adaptation/mitigation measures and
corresponding to the Mission targets.
Mission 1: Enhancing quality of forest cover and improving ecosystem services
a. Moderately dense forest cover, but showing degradation
b. Eco-restoration of degraded open forests
c. Restoration of Grasslands
Mission 2: Ecosystem restoration and increase in forest cover
a. Rehabilitation of Shifting Cultivation areas
b. Restoring Scrublands
c. Restoration of Mangroves
d. Ravine Reclamation
e. Restoration of abandoned mining areas

6. “Sub Missions of Green India”
Mission 3: Enhancing tree cover in Urban and Peri-Urban areas (including
institutional lands) the Mission will support urban greening by various
interventions, categorising urban forests in the following broad categories:
a. Recorded or notified forest patches
b. Open spaces/green spaces like parks/wood lots
c. Diffused planting such as on avenues and in households
d. Institutional lands
Mission 4: Agro-Forestry and Social Forestry (increasing biomass and creating
carbon sink)
Mission 5: Restoration of Wetlands

7. Class-9 activity
a. National level competitions
b. Drawing
c. Quiz
d. speech and Essay writing

8. Class-10 “Significance of the Green India
Mission”
Significance of forests in relation to climate change The Green India Mission
recognizes the influences and potential that the forests and other natural
ecosystems have on climate adaptation/mitigation, and food, water,
environmental and livelihood security of tribal and forest dwellers specifically,
and the nation at large, in the context of climate change. The Mission is
therefore in a unique position to significantly contribute to sustainability of other
missions for the following reasons:
a. Ameliorating climate
b. Food security
c. Water security
d. Livelihood security of local communities

9. “Mission Goals and Targets”
The green India mission aims at responding to climate change by a combination
of adaptation and mitigation measures, which would help enhancing carbon sinks
in sustainably managed forests and other ecosystems, adaptation of vulnerable
species/ecosystems, and adaptation of forest-dependant communities.
The mission targets to Improvement in quality of forest cover and ecosystem
services of forests /non-forests, including moderately dense, open forests,
degraded grassland and wetlands. Also mission approaches Eco-
restoration/afforestation of scrub, shifting cultivation areas, cold deserts,
mangroves.

10. Activity for Eco-friendly
 Tree plantation awareness and activity
 Mangroves camping's
 Day celebrations
 National level Drawing, Quiz, speech and Essay writing competitions

11. Thank you
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