Many Indian districts ‘hotspots’ of climate change
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Study by Council on Energy, Environment and Water requires constructing climate resilience
About three in 4 of India’s districts are hotspots of excessive climate occasions corresponding to cyclones, floods, drought, warmth and chilly waves, in line with a examine by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), a analysis company.
India noticed 250 excessive climate occasions between 1970 and 2005, and since then 310 excessive climate occasions. The examine additionally discovered a shift within the sample of excessive climate occasions corresponding to flood-prone areas changing into drought-prone and vice-versa in over 40% of districts.
“The current trend of catastrophic climate events results from a mere 0.6 °C temperature rise in the last 100 years. India is already the fifth most vulnerable country globally in terms of extreme climate events and it is all set to become the world’s flood capital. Access to finance and technology along with democratisation of weather and climate-related data is critical for building climate resilience, especially for vulnerable countries like India,” Abinash Mohanty, programme lead at CEEW and the creator of the examine, mentioned in a press release.
There have been over 97 million folks being uncovered to excessive floods in India, mentioned the examine. Six of India’s eight most flood-prone districts within the final decade — Barpeta, Darrang, Dhemaji, Goalpara, Golaghat, Sivasagar — are in Assam.
The final 50 years additionally recorded a 12-fold surge within the quantity of related cyclonic occasions corresponding to excessive rainfall, floods, and thunderstorms.
The yearly common of drought-affected districts elevated 13 occasions after 2005, the paper mentioned. Nearly 68% of Indian districts have been going through droughts and drought-like conditions. Drought-affected district hotspots of India within the final decade have been Ahmednagar, Anantapur, Aurangabad, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Chikkaballapur, Chittoor, Gulbarga, and Hassan. While the depth of harm in phrases of loss of life has lowered considerably, drought will increase uncertainties associated to agriculture and rural livelihoods, the analysis discovered.
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