The environment ministry has approved projects aimed at addressing the vulnerabilities arising out of climate change in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Sikkim. The National Steering Committee on Climate Change yesterday held a meeting in New Delhi and approved three Detailed Project Reports submitted by the states for fundings under the National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change (NAFCC). <br/><br/>The projects seek to address the vulnerabilities in climate sensitive sectors such as agriculture, animal husbandry, water, forests and coasts among others. NFCC is a flagship scheme of the Centre, which provides a 100 per cent grant to the states for implementing climate change adaptation projects. <br/><br/>The projects seek to address a range of climate change vulnerabilities in the three states which are not being dealt with by the ongoing schemes of the central and state governments. <br/><br/>In Rajasthan, the project seeks to build on the work carried out under the first phase of the Mukhya Mantri Jal Swavlamban Abhiyan to enhance the adaptive capacity of the villages by making them self-reliant in terms of water requirement. <br/><br/>Similarly, the project in Gujarat aims to enhance the adaptive capacity of natural resource-dependent communities to climate change in targeted villages of the Kutch district. <br/><br/>The project in Sikkim aims to address the issue of water security which is directly identified as a climate resilience building intervention under the State Action Plan on Climate Change.