Green NGO ‘Parisarakkaagi Naavu’ writes to PM demanding immediate action to protect people from climate emergencies
The Karnataka-based environmental organization Parisarakkaagi Naavu has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take immediate action against climate emergencies. They emphasize the need for stricter laws against tree felling and a moratorium on forest land diversion for non-essential projects. The organization also calls for the establishment of a National Climate Emergency Authority to address climate vulnerabilities across the country.
- ▪Parisarakkaagi Naavu has written to Prime Minister Modi demanding immediate climate action.
- ▪The organization wants tree felling on public land to be made a cognizable, non-bailable offense.
- ▪They propose a moratorium on forest land diversion for non-essential projects and the establishment of a National Climate Emergency Authority.
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Parisarakkaagi Naavu, a Karnataka-based environmental organisation, has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding immediate action to protect people from climate emergencies. “The institutional pace at which we currently move — committees, deliberations, phased rollouts, periodic reviews — is wholly inadequate to address a threat that is accelerating year on year,” reads the letter. Action against tree fellingNoting that “the protection and expansion of forest and tree cover is the single most cost-effective, time-tested, and uniquely Indian instrument of climate resilience”, the organisation has demanded that the felling of any tree on public land, in catchment areas, in urban areas, and on notified forest land must be made a cognisable, non-bailable offence, with mandatory…
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