Centre for Environment Education (CEE) in partnership with Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) has of late conducted a study of two areas of Karnataka State Action Plan on Climate Change (KSAPCC)—water and agriculture—to suggest the ways to promote their implementation efficiency. The study carries inputs from various expert agencies. To discuss and validate the results of the study, CEE organized a Knowledge Partners Symposium (KPS) on 11.11.2021 in Bangalore. Representatives from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India (Bangalore regional office), Environmental Management for Policy and Research Institution (EMPRI), Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Department, Government of Karnataka, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bengaluru, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) and Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD) participated and critiqued the study. The inputs gathered from the representatives shall be used to refine and improve the study results.
Among others, the following points were underlined during the discussion:
On 07.12.2021, CEE plans in partnership with HSF to organize a state level round table to discuss further about climate change issue and how it affects India, especially Karnataka and what role the subnational polices and institutions can play in tackling climate change. This platform will be used to share the results of the KSAPCC study with larger policy communities including government officials from the state of Karnataka.