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National
strategy for climate change
National
climate change action plan
Local/city
adaptation plan
Integrated National
Adaptation Project, planned
2008–13, implemented only
2007 ($400,000 World Bank
and Japanese cooperation)
Guidelines for a National
Climate Change Policy
(2002): estimate impacts,
protect high mountain
systems (water), adapt
to sea-level rise and to
changing epidemiological
patterns
Nonexistent, planned in
2008, not yet included
in the recently published
environmental policy
guidelines
The national climate plan
fl owed almost directly out of
the Western Cape plan
Approved 2008 Approved 2006
National Environmental
Policy 2006, National Action
Plan on Climate Change
passed in June 2008
Solar energy, energy
effi ciency, sustainable
habitat, conserving water,
sustaining the Himalayan
ecosystem, green India,
sustainable agriculture,
and strategic knowledge
platform for climate change
“Climate Change Agenda
2009–2012,” approved in
2009
Nonexistent National adaptation plan
addressing regional
adaptation in coastal zones
Nonexistent
National environmental
policy 2006
Approved
June 2008
Nonexistent
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