The Concept & Practice of the
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Since 2010, the Climate
Vulnerable Forum has been
warning the world of the
effects of Climate
Change
For more information: http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerabilitymonitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2010/download-thereport/
Yet, internationally, it’s business as usual
• The 1st Commitment Period under the Kyoto Protocol ended
in Dec 2012.
• Major economies – Canada, Japan, Russia, New Zealand –
did not sign up for the 2nd Commitment Period (2013-2020)
• The EU and Australia are the only major economies left with
(very modest) emission targets
• The Doha Amendment (governing the 2013-2020 targets) has
only been formally accepted by: Barbados, United Arab
Emirates & Mauritius!
 It is NOT in force! Will it ever be?
Climate-Neutral Village
• CNV is a structured
process to raise financial
resources for climatevulnerable communities.
• It uses CSR funding to
neutralise a community’s
carbon footprint,
• become CarbonNegative, and
• adapt to, and cope with
the effects of climate
change
Yet it’s more than just
a 3-year intervention
• The Climate-Neutral Village
– is an integrated platform for village development
– provides a road map for adaptation.
– facilitates communities to influence and access resources from
line departments, PRIs, financial institutions and NGOs to make
this adaptation possible
– uses external grants
New
Trees
improved
cookstoves
• to neutralise its community carbon footprint through improved
cookstoves and planting 50 trees per acre as hedge crops
• to support 1 village development assistant to support the community
to liaise with line departments, PRIs, financial institutions and
NGOs,
• to meet its overheads, and
• to support climate advocacy, documentation, a GIS/MIS data
backbone, and compliance and issuance
Crop insurance
sprinkler/drip Irrigation
Sustainable Agriculture
Recharge facilities for
private borewells
Community Borewells
Organic/NPM cropping
short-duration /
drought-tolerant seeds
No-Till sowing
Drainage in
Black Soils
Farm Ponds
Watershed/Tre
nch-cum-Bund
treatments
Farmer’s Club
• The community will be facilitated to access
a NABARD Farmer Club or equivalent
• Existing treated lands, Farm Ponds, use of
short-duration seeds / drought-tolerant seed
varieties, Organic/NPM cropping practices,
community borewells, private borewells with
recharge facilities, sprinkler/drip irrigation
and crop insurance will be counted;
• And, the community will be facilitated to
access more of these inputs from NABARD,
NREGA, Dept of Agriculture, the Dept of
Watershed Development Development and
the NGO itself.
NRM – natural resources
management
1 ton
compost
per acre
•
•
Top Soil
desilting
sub-surface
interflows
and aquifer
recharge
•
rainwater
harvesting
•
rainwater
storage
•
existing
trees
Existing trees. This is an existing resource. The community
will be assisted to protect these.
Combined Rainwater storage. Existing village tanks etc will
be monitored, and new storage facilities proposed or
recharge facilities planned so that the community
internalises how critical these are to the community's
survival. Focus on this will also allow the community to
take steps to manage these better.
Existing Rainwater harvesting structures. The community
will also be facilitated to increase this capacity through
NREGA, the dept of agriculture, the Watershed
Development dept, and the implementing agency itself.
Top soil: The community will be facilitated to access this
through NREGA, and the implemtning agency.
Composting: The community will be facilitated to access
this through NREGA, the dept of agriculture, and the
implementing agency.
Livelihoods
•
Organised Livelihood: annual turnover/total
producers*producers from village : The implementing
agency will explore with households organised livelihoods
such as milk production.
The implementing agency will also monitor households
with members engaged in non-farm livelihoods.
•
Livestock
1
organised/i
nformal
livelihood
per
household
Livestock
•
Households with sheep and goats, poultry and pigs will be
monitored. All households will be encouraged to keep
livestock as a form of emergency savings that can be
easily encashed in units or as a whole.
Public Resources
•
social
welfare
benefits
NREGA
Kisan
Credit
SHG
Bank
Linkages
Priority
Sector
loans
•
CNV will periodically count all households with priority sector
loans, who are members of women’s SHGs, farmers who
are accessing Kisan Credit cards, households who are
accessing NREGA work as employment and to build NRM
assets on their lands, and households who have accessed
all eligible social welfare benefits.
The implementing will also facilitate eligible households who
have not accessed these schemes to do so.
Climate education
•
Equitable
Public
Climate
Policies
Climate Change
awareness events
Structured
Climate Change
education
environment
group
•
•
The implementing agency will organise an
environment group comprising school children and
youth to undertake structured Climate Change
education.
The environment group will be encouraged to hold
periodical Climate Change awareness events.
The environment group will also make presentations
to the govt to recognise its Climate Change efforts, as
well as its efforts to become climate-adapted.
All households in a woni/street
will be organised by the
implementing agency into
female and male groups.
Community
Organisation
VCCDC
Village
Climate
Change &
Development
Committee
1+1 representatives of these
gender groups will be selected
unanimously by each street
group and seconded to the
Village Climate Change &
Development Committee.
Effectively, this group will
function as the representative
general body of the village.
Streets in older villages are traditionally caste-based. As a result all
caste groups are represented, as will all religious groups.
All decision-making in the VCCDC will be by consensus and in public.
And because 50% of the representatives are women, gender in
decision-making is institutionalised as a process.
CNV: its GIS/MIS backbone makes it very
accountable, transparent and very visible
CNV is enabled by a small support
ecology
CNV Secretariat
INECC
Indian Network for Ethics and Climate Change
- http://inecc.net
Partner Networks In the absence of a Partner network, INECC
will meet CNV’s networking requirements
CED
Akasmika
Bridge Builders
Centre for Education & Documentation
- http://www.doccentre.net
Akasmika is a private entity that provides the GIS/MIS
data backbone.
Bridge Builders is a private entity responsible for
Compliance and Issuance
http://www.bridge-builders.de
SAMUHA
SAMUHA is a NGO that works in North Karnataka
and is the originator of CNV - http://samuha.org
iSquareD
iSquareD is a charitable trust that promotes social
enterprises – and heads the CNV Secretariat
- http://isquared.in
The Climate-Neutral Village
is a geographical platform for integrated and
sustainable development…
Climate-Neutral
Villages
transitioning
climatevulnerable
communities
into climateadapted
communities
Climate-oriented
community organisations
and groups, natural
resources management,
sustainable agriculture,
improved cookstoves,
public resources: NREGA,
social welfare benefits,
priority sector lending
(SHGs, JLGs), …
… that offers the promise of
Sustainable Development in a
practical way that supports
interested households within
a community framework