Question : Climate Change

(a) whether the Government has signed an agreement with World Bank for financial assistance to take up various adaptation measures in rural areas to deal with the threat of climate change; and
(b) if so, the manner in which the said assistance/fund is likely to be used to implement the said measures in rural areas?

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
(SHRI PRAKASH JAVADEKAR)

(a) No, sir.

(b) The question does not arise.


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