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More than a decade after realising the importance of the climate action plan, the state government has failed to fund the mitigation and adaptation programmes as the annual budgets aim more at economic programmes which are no more than band-aid solutions, experts have warned. The draft Karnataka State Action Plan on Climate Change, which suggests allocation of Rs 20,880 crore in 2025 and Rs 52,827 crore in 2030 for climate-specific programmes, has been sent to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC). The experts appointed by the state government have drawn the action plan on the basis of the MoEF guidelines in setting targets for Karnataka. Each state has a role to play in ensuring that India meets the Nationally Determined Contribution goals to which it committed in the Paris Agreement.