Minister for Energy and Environment Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy has welcomed the Centre’s initiative ‘Mission LiFE’ (Lifestyle for Environment), an India-led global mass movement to nudge individual and community action to protect and preserve the environment.
Responding to a detailed explanation about the mission by Special Chief Secretary (Energy) K. Vijayanand and Member Secretary of Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) B. Sreedhar, along with officials from the Andhra Pradesh State Energy Conservation Mission (APSECM) at a review meeting, the Minister said climate change posed a challenge to the sustainability of social and economic development, livelihoods of communities and environmental management in the State.
“The State government is giving a top priority to environmental protection and it has created an exclusive Climate Change Cell (CCC) to address such issues through Ecosystem-based Approach (EbA) on par with India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change,” said the Minister.
