India has announced her National Action Plan to tackle problems arising out of Climate Change. The action plan calls for our collective efforts to protect and judiciously use our land, water, forestry and related bio resources; reduce negative impacts and sustain development.

All of us have a responsibility to respond to this call for action. The present initiative of JSW is a reflection of its commitment to go beyond its own responsible environmental action and strengthen initiatives for the benefit of our country through strategically important partnerships. The Times of India finds fulfillment, partnering JSW in this context; enabling a nation wide outreach of this call.

The Earth Care Award is meant to help our country identify, acknowledge & showcase real life mitigation & adaptation action in response to this call. We as a nation will then be able to rally around the excellent work of our fellow citizens with a clear understanding of the feasibility of options to tackle impacts of climate change.

The present second edition of the award for the period 2008 – 2009 will look for clear mitigation & adaptation results and other corroborating evidences with respect to four major categories.

The categories are:

• Greenhouse gas mitigation in small, medium and large scale industries achieved through direct reduction of emissions from processes and / or indirectly through energy efficiency enhancement.
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• Land use, Land use change & Forestry related activities with a clear positive impact on the quality and quantity of water and land resources and other cross cutting impacts achieved through local community initiatives and NGOs, and, those of the government through various schemes; emphasizing direct benefits to the natural systems and communities.
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• Innovations of processes / products for climate protection, achieved through appropriate design of form and function, resulting in significant reduction in emissions and improvement in energy efficiency while using the process / product. View PDF
• For Furher Details please contact Mukund Gorakshkar
  Email : mukund.gorakshkar@jsw.in Contact: 24917947