GLOBAL environmental NGO Greenpeace has called the recently released National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) as an important first step but whose efficacy will be determined by the details of the mission documents to be finalised by the end of this year. In a press conference held by Greenpeace, K Srinivas, policy advisor, Greenpeace India, called the action plan a vision statement and said: "The principles on which the plan was based shows a clear shift in the government's stand from development at all costs to one which attempts to meet growth objectives through a low carbon, ecologically sustainable path sensitive to climate change. We welcome this shift.' He, however, added that in the absence of any quantitative goals and specifics on institutional mechanisms and regulation in the action plan, the efficacy and the seriousness of the government's intent in putting India on to a path of sustainable development will depend primarily on the details and specifics of the mission documents, to be decided by December this year. The action plan's efforts on energy efficiency was criticised in particular. The 10,000 MW of savings from energy efficiency by 2012 as envisaged in the plan was termed unambitious. According to Greenpeace, the phasing out of the incandescent bulb and its replacement with currently available CFL technology would achieve a saving of 12,000 MW, a target that, according to them, could be achieved by 2010. Greenpeace puts the potential for energy savings in industry by 2020 to be close to 30,000 MW. The NGO criticised the voluntary and market mechanisms oriented approach of the action plan towards industrial energy saving, which it felt would not achieve any significant reduction in wasted energy.