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The brainstorming session on the Green India Mission (GIM) will begin here on Saturday, focusing on the action plan for 2011-12, perspective plans for the next five to 10 years and the State-level action plans of the mission.
Senior forest officers, civil society, members of the Joint Forest Management Committee and officials of the Environment and Forests Ministry would participate in it.
The GIM recognises that climate change phenomena will seriously affect and alter the distribution, type and quality of natural resources and the associated livelihoods of the people. The GIM acknowledges the influences that the forestry sector has on environmental amelioration though climate mitigation, food security, water security, biodiversity conservation and livelihood security of forest dependent communities.
The key innovations are the focus on quality of forests, ecosystem services, democratic decentralisation, creating a new cadre of community youth as foresters, adoption of landscape-based approach and reform agenda as conditionality, an official statement said.
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