The window of carbon trading has opened a new means of earning for those cutting down on their carbon footprints. Those contributing more to the emission of green house gases, purchase carbon credits earned by those who cut down on this front. This helps in achieving the end result of bringing down the global emission level to the desirable level.
Bihar too is on way to join the club of carbon credit traders. And the help has come from German agency GTZ, which would help Bihar in adopting ways for earning carbon credits and its subsequent trading.
GTZ, having worldwide operations, works for sustainable development. Its corporate objective is to improve peoples’ living. Founded in 1975, the agency has operations in more than 130 countries.
The agency will help Bihar in introducing certain things in the design of the upcoming buildings of an International Museum at Patna and International Convention Centre at Rajgir so that these building could meet the criteria of becoming green buildings.
New buildings apart, the German agency would also help the state government in suggesting certain changes in the existing buildings of Patna Museum and city’s Moinul Haq Stadium for reducing the energy consumption thus qualifying for being declared as green buildings.
The agency, for this purpose, would send its international experts to the state. “We have requested GTZ for providing the services of the international experts as soon as possible and the agency has agreed to it,” art and culture department secretary Vivek Singh told TOI.
He said that GTZ will also facilitate the state government in trading the carbon credits, earned by having green buildings, in the international market once the process of making the said buildings green ones is completed. “Funds earned through trading of carbon credits and entry tickets in these buildings would be used for making these buildings self-supporting on the maintenance front,” added the secretary.
Well aware of the potential of carbon credit trading, the Bihar government is trying to convert some more existing buildings into green ones. It is suggested by the fact that the state art and culture department has approached the government of India agency, ‘Bureau of Energy Efficiency’, to suggest ways for converting the building of Bharatiya Nritya Kala Mandir, Patna, as a green building.