Tamil Nadu is looking to tap into the carbon market to fund its climate action projects such as the Wetland Mission and increasing the mangrove cover, Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Forests, said on Wednesday.
“We have focused on specific projects where the private sector can participate. This includes creating new mangrove areas, improving the degraded mangrove patches and ensuring that you create a large number of green jobs benefiting the local community and that the projects are registered for carbon credits,” she said at the Conference on Carbon Neutrality organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here.
The Government of India has come out with the carbon credit framework. In the coming months, we would register the projects, get them rated, and make presentation for the carbon credits program, Ms. Sahu said.
