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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Wednesday (December 17, 2025) said that the State authorities volition grow the chill extortion inaugural to 297 greenish schools crossed the State, and the one-day summertime and wintertime peculiar biology consciousness camps for schoolchildren volition present beryllium conducted arsenic two-day camps.
Addressing the 3rd gathering of the Tamil Nadu Governing Council connected Climate Change astatine the Secretariat successful Chennai, Mr. Stalin recalled the interaction of Cyclone Ditwah successful Sri Lanka and said the satellite is witnessing the effects of clime change. Due to assorted precautionary measures taken by the Tamil Nadu government, the State averted large-scale damage, helium said.
Listing assorted initiatives taken by his authorities implicit the past 3 years, including the Tamil Nadu Wetlands Mission, the Tamil Nadu Climate Change Mission, and the Tamil Nadu Coastal Restoration Mission (TN-SHORE), Mr. Stalin said the State contiguous stands arsenic an illustration successful taking pioneering initiatives to mitigate the interaction of clime change.
Under the clime literacy initiative, a full of 4,000 teachers person been selected and programmes volition commence soon, helium said. To make biology consciousness among schoolchildren, the State authorities had already initiated one-day summertime and wintertime peculiar camps, conducted doubly a twelvemonth done the District Climate Change Mission. This inaugural is present acceptable to beryllium expanded into two-day camps done the School Education Department.
He said the chill extortion inaugural has been included successful the 2025-26 enactment program of the Tamil Nadu Climate Change Mission. Under this initiative, classrooms of a authorities schoolhouse successful Ambattur person been coated with heat-reflective achromatic paint. Monitoring utilizing sensors has shown a simplification successful indoor somesthesia ranging from 1.5 to 3 degrees Celsius. Following this, the State authorities has planned to instrumentality the inaugural successful 297 greenish schools crossed Tamil Nadu.
Climate and gender
Mr. Stalin besides highlighted the measures taken by the State authorities to alteration Killai adjacent Pichavaram successful Cuddalore territory nether the clime resilient colony programme. He said the mangrove screen successful Tamil Nadu has accrued from 4,500 hectares to 9,000 hectares.
Research shows that women and miss children are among those astir affected by earthy disasters worldwide, helium said, urging officials to guarantee sex equality portion formulating clime mitigation and adaptation measures. Women play an important relation successful combating clime change. Under the clime warriors programme, 100 e-autorickshaws person been provided to 100 women self-help groups to transportation retired consciousness campaigns connected clime alteration and integrative elimination, helium said.
He said the transport sector’s stock of Tamil Nadu’s full greenhouse state emissions has accrued from 12% to 19%. Considering expanding postulation congestion successful metro cities specified arsenic Chennai, Mr. Stalin emphasised the request to usage nationalist transport. He said that successful the archetypal phase, 120 electrical buses person been introduced done the Metropolitan Transport Corporation. The State authorities has planned to present different 600 electrical buses soon.
He said that with respect to planetary warming, Tamil Nadu should execute the people of nett zero earlier 2070, and that the State has been moving extensively astatine some argumentation and enactment levels implicit the past 4 years. He besides said the State authorities sought ₹24,679 crore catastrophe alleviation funds to the Centre, but it lone received ₹4,136 crore.
Mr. Stalin besides released a method study connected bluish c wealthiness of Tamil Nadu and a study connected reducing marine litter connected Tamil Nadu seashore nether Tamil Nadu fishnet initiative. Minister for Finance Thangam Thennarasu, Chief Secretary N. Muruganandam, and Additional Chief Secretary, Environment, Climate Change and Forests Supriya Sahu, among others, participated.
