To: Asset Trust, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Reducing Global Warming through Tree plantation
We, Asset Trust have plan to organize this campaign in the month October 2015 among Rural People in Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, India with following goals and objectives :
•To spread awareness among the rural on climate change through media.
•To promote bio fuel trees ( Pongamia piñata, Jatropha curcas) and increasing renewable energy, promoting clean development mechanism and sequestering carbon
•To educate the community about importance of the Neem trees and regenerate environment
•To prevent the erosion of top soil and rain waters which are being washed on for years.
•To promote biomass production through reclaim and generate the wastelands
•To involve people’s participation in the project activities, and sustain the afforestation efforts in the target areas
•To generate income and employment opportunities to the rural poor.
Campaign Activities :
-Awareness Building on global warming and afforestation
-Training program for women on quality nursery Raising technique
-Running capital support for women’s SHG for collection of bio fuel seeds and sales for income generation activity.
-Nursery raising expenses for 75000 saplings
-Soil and water conservation works strengthening of farm bund – formation of New bund
Why is this important?
The rural villages of Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, India is very much deprived of development poverty and environmental degradation has put a drastic change in the life of the village community in all blocks . This leads to mass migration of community for searching livelihood, child labor, poor health and sanitation, indebtedness with money lenders etc. The target area is surrounded by the western ghats. Daily thousand trees are cut down by illegal persons. Bio fuel trees ( pongamia binnata, Jutropha curcas) is a source of renewable energy unlike fossil fuel. It is ecologically begin twice over in that, first, no carbon diozide is emitted into the atmosphere and, second, it also sequesters carbon from the atmosphere through tree leaves. Biofuel being an instrument of clean development mechanism, Neem is the multipurpose using trees and environmental regeneration.
Under these desperate circumstances, change mitigation is an urgent priority. Emission of Co2 can be cut in following ways,
• Bio fuel seed collection
• Bio fuel Trees plantation
• Neem trees plantation
• Increasing Rural income through bio-fuel trees plantation in rural areas. So, this project will address the climate change issues through afforestation activities.
