NEW DELHI: With the adverse impacts of climate change becoming more evident and the recent spate of extreme weather events, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is actively considering reviving the high level advisory panel to coordinate national efforts to assess, adapt to and counter the impact of climate change.The PM’s Council on Climate Change constituted by the UPA government in 2007 last met in February 2011 and limited itself to assessing the eight missions that comprised National Action Plan on Climate Change ( NAPCC ).There has been little action on the ground in most of these core missions, the most successful of which was the one focused on energy efficiency while the solar mission also registered modest successes.“Part of the reason for the slow movement was a lack of proper coordination, delayed availability of funds, especially for programmes which were not in the regular mould of government schemes,” a member of the erstwhile council said.Unlike the Prime Minister’s Council in the UPA regime, the new council is expected to go beyond the missions under the NAPCC, a person familiar with the matter said.With the impact of climate change becoming more evident, and robust projections by scientists, particularly the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the adverse impact on food production, water availability and other key developmental issues, there is a renewed focus on taking domestic measures to both adapt to and reduce the impact of climate change.The decision comes at a crucial time in the international climate change negotiations as well.Countries have agreed to put in place a new global compact by December 2015 in Paris to address climate change and limit its impact.As part of this effort, each country is expected to put forward efforts and actions to tackle climate change or in climate negotiation parlance “intended nationally determined contributions”.The PM’s Council is not focused primarily on international negotiations but on advising on efforts to address climate change and its deliberations will feed into India’s stance in the negotiations. The council is expected to include a fair representation from industry, in contrast to the previous council in which then Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata was the sole representative from industry and was included in his capacity as chairman of the Investment Commission of India “Industry is a key stakeholder in addressing climate change. Consider the effort to increase the share of renewable energy and introduce energy efficiency in manufacturing processes, buildings and appliances, and keeping out industry doesn’t make sense for an advisory body,” said an official.The ministry of environment, forests and climate change, which is the nodal ministry for the issue, has already given its suggestions on the members.The ministries implementing the eight missions comprising the NAPCC have also given their suggestions on inclusion of experts in the panel, a senior official said, adding the Prime Minister’s Office is likely to take the final call on the members of the reconstituted council soon.Among the names doing the rounds for inclusion in the panel are that of Jayant Mauskar, former co-chairperson of the UNFCCC’s Adhoc Working Group on the Durban Platform, and former special secretary in the ministry of environment ; former environment secretary Prodipto Ghosh and currently a distinguished fellow at Teri.