For promoting usage of renewable energy sources like solar and biogas, the government would soon announce details of the nation action plan on climate change, which was announced by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in June. The action plan aims at reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions through usage of renewable sources of energy and usage of green technologies by the industry.

Under the action pan, the government had proposed to create eight missions focusing on areas like solar energy, mission for enhances energy efficiency, water mission, mission for a green India, mission for sustainable habitat, mission for sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem, sustainable agriculture and creation of strategic knowledge for climate change.

“We are giving final touch to each mission documents and we want to launch work on the action plan over the next few weeks,” Vijai Sharma, secretary ministry of environment and forest said on Monday.

He said that each mission would be given tasks to evolve specific objectives spanning the remaining year of the 11th and 12th five-year plans. The action plan would be implemented through inter-sectoral groups including ministry of finance and the Planning Commission and experts from industry, academia and civil society.

“Although we do not have binding commitment under international climate change norm to reduce carbon emission, we have unilaterally initiated the action plan to reduce carbon emission so that economic growth could be sustained along with promotion of green technologies,” Sharma said. On the financing of the missions, he said that government would allocate sufficient funds for implementation.

The action plan specifically mentions about importance of solar energy by stating that photovoltaic cells are becoming cheaper with new technology. “The Himalayan ecosystem has 45 million people who practice hill agriculture and whose vulnerability is expected to increase on account of climate change,? the action plan had said.

While pitching for ?equity? in dealing with reducing carbon emission, India has strongly asked the developed countries do reduce per capital green house gases.

While releasing the action plan, Manmohan Singh had said “every citizen of this planet must have an equal share of the planetary atmospheric space. Long-term convergence of per capita emissions is, therefore, the only equitable basis for a global compact on climate change,”.

Singh had also said “we must pioneer a graduated shift from economic activity based on fossil fuels to one based on non-fossil fuels and from reliance on non-renewable and depleting sources of energy to renewable sources of energy,”.

The environment secretary Sharma while speaking at the high level meeting at the 14th conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at Poznan, Poland on Saturday also said “it is a matter of deep concern that the emissions of developed countries have been rising contrary to the provisions of the convention.”

Although under Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012) ratified under the UNFCCC, India does not have a legal or binding obligation to reduce carbon emission, the government wants to push the promote usage of solar energy, national solid waste management plan, afforestation, water conservation under the mission mode so that economic growth could be achieved without increase in the carbon emission.