SHILLONG, JULY 26: Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma said that climate change has emerged as one of the most serious threats to humanity which impacts natural resources, economic activities, food security, health and infrastructure.
Sangma felt that the threat is greater in communities and areas that have high dependency on agriculture and natural resources for their livelihood.
Sangma verbalised his take on climate change as he laid the foundation stone of the “Centre for Adaptation to Climate Change” at the Trout Farm Premises, Wah Dienglieng, Shillong in the presence of Dr. Thomas Helfen, Head of South Asia Division, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Federal Government of Germany, the delegation from the Federal Republic of Germany and a distinguished dignitaries of officials, ngos and village heads on Friday.
The Centre for Adaptation to Climate Change is a joint venture of the Meghalaya government and the Federal Government of Germany under the Indo-German Bilateral Cooperation.
The main aim for the setting up the Centre is to centralize the fragmented data and information on Natural Resource Management and Climate Change, to have a sustainable data storage and maintenance, to achieve synergies between the involved research institutions, governmental institutions and users, to have an access of key reference point of contact for information on Natural Resource Management and Climate Change and to facilitate transformation of data to knowledge useful to communities at the field level.
The Centre will act as a Nucleus for a Regional centre on Natural Resource Management and Climate Change.
Sangma said that adapting to climate change is of high relevance for livelihood resilience of people and overall sustainable development of such areas. He hoped that with the identification of the Centre as a centre of excellence in the field of natural resource management and climate change, the people of Meghalaya in particular and the North Eastern Region in general including the neighboring countries will benefit through the vast repository of knowledge and expertise available with the centre.
Sangma also opined that the Centre being a nucleus will be able to act as a convergence hub of all the data and knowledge on climate change, facilitate information flow, exchange and cooperation between stakeholders to enable affected people to re-strategize and to adapt to climate changes without disturbing their livelihood.- By Our Reporter
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