ICYO- Youth Information

No. 2008/ 62

(E-Newsletter from network of youth organizations in India)

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ICYO - Platform of 358 Youth Organizations in India.       

ICYO - India’s largest network of urban and rural youth.

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National Action Plan on Climate Change released

 

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today released India's National Action Plan on Climate Change, in a brief ceremony in New Delhi today.

 

The National Action Plan has been prepared under the guidance and direction of Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change.

 

Members of Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, senior members of the Union Cabinet, representatives of civil society and senior officials of Government, were present on the occasion.

 

Prime Minister made a brief speech on the occasion. He said that the release of the National Action Plan reflected the importance the Government attaches to mobilizing our national energies to meet the challenge of climate change.

 

The National Action Plan focuses attention of 8 priorities National Missions. These are:

 

1. Solar Energy

 

2. Enhanced Energy Efficiency

 

3. Sustainable Habitat

 

4. Conserving Water

 

5. Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem

 

6. A “Green India”

 

7. Sustainable agriculture

 

8. Strategic Knowledge Platform for Climate Change

 

The National Mission of Solar Energy, occupies a pre-eminent place, whose success, Prime Minister said, has the potential of transforming the face of India.

 

Prime Minister emphasized the global dimension of the challenge of climate change, which demands a global and cooperative effort on the basis of the principle of equity. India, he said, was ready to play its role as a responsible member of the international community and to make its own contribution. He added that India believed that every citizen of this planet should have an equal share of the planetary atmospheric space and therefore, long-term convergence of per capita GHG emissions was the only equitable basis for a global agreement to tackle climate change. In this context, the Prime Minister reaffirmed India’s pledge that as it pursued sustainable development, its per capita GHC emissions would not exceed the per capita GHG emissions of developed countries, despite our developmental imperatives.

 

Prime Minister clarified that the National Action Plan would evolve and change in the light of changing circumstances and therefore invited broader interaction with civil society as a means to further improve the various elements of the Plan.

 

In his concluding remarks the Prime Minister recalled Mahatma Gandhi’s sage advice : “The earth has enough resources to meet the needs of people, but will never have enough to serve their greed”. 

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Indian Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO) is a registered non-profit, non-governmental network organization, committed in developing areas of mutual cooperation and understanding among different youth voluntary agencies, youth groups, clubs and individuals working in the field of youth welfare in India. 

ICYO functions as an umbrella organization of youth NGOs in India. It's family consists of
over 358 organizations spread in 122 districts of 22 states from different corners of India.

Our goal:
To improve and extend the youth work and services through Youth Organizations;
To enhance and demonstrate youth work in the society;
To promote effective youth programmmes;
To organize network of civil society organizations working towards the development of youth work;
To organize seminars, conferences, workshops, trainings;
To maintain international relation with organizations promoting youthin their programmes and activities.

Affiliation: 

Consultative (Roster) Status with ECOSOC, United Nations;
Consultative Status with Commission on Sustainable Development;
Full Member of World Assembly of Youth (WAY); Asian Youth Council (AYC);
CRIN, South Asia Youth Environment Network (SAYEN),

Affiliate group of ECPAT International, Thailand;
ATSECE-DELHI, Indian Partner of AIDS Care Watch Campaign;
Steering Committee member of World Bank's YDP Network;
Working relation with Indian Association of Parliamentarians (IAPPD);
International Medical Parliamentarians Organizations (IMPO), Thailand;
Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD), Thailand;
World Youth Foundation, Malaysia.

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