Thiruvananthapuram: Minister for Water Resources N.K. Premachandran has stressed the need to formulate an action plan to mitigate the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities in the State.
Inaugurating a workshop organised in connection with the National Environment Awareness Campaign by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Centre for Environment Development (CED) here on Thursday, he said Kerala could ignore climate change only at its peril.
“The available statistics on atmospheric temperature variation and greenhouse emissions are alarming. There is urgent need for intervention to control the causative factors, which are largely human-induced.”
The Minister said the State was also being exposed to extreme climatic conditions like other parts of the world.
The Minister said it would take strong measures to mitigate the impact of climate change.
Executive chairman of the Information Kerala Mission Prof. M.K.Prasad presided over the function.
Executive director, CED, Babu Ambatt was also present.
