Climate Change Impacts: Where Does India Stand on Climate Change?
India is susceptible to natural calamities as the aftermath of climate change like warming temperatures and cyclones have aggravated in recent times. Moreover, human activities are responsible for social climate change impact, which play a huge role in destroying the ecology. Let us take a closer look at the current state of India's ecological and climate change impacts and the progress that India has made to mitigate climate change impacts.
How Has The Climate Change Affected Indian Cities?
In India, there is a constant rise in land air surface temperatures. As a result, extreme weather has led to natural calamities, resulting in increased occurrences of cyclones. Due to this, there has also been a rise in the population shift.
As per the Global Climate Risk Index, India stands in the seventh position on the list of countries most affected by climate change.
While many measures have been taken positively, India's climate efforts are widely seen as far from the drastic measures needed to respond to the climate emergency.
India is one of the top five countries worldwide, where the exposure to pollutants in the air has increased, leading to a rise in deaths due to air pollution.
The rapid changes in India's climate causes:
Increased rates of soil erosion
Increasing sea levels and cyclone damage
Warming over the Indian Ocean
Differences in the extent and patterns of monsoon rains
Additionally, there is an impact on our natural ecosystems, agricultural output, and freshwater resources with escalating damage to infrastructure. These signify serious consequences for biodiversity, food, water and energy security, and public health.
Changes in the monsoon and its knock-on effects are perhaps the country's most important areas of concern. For example, increasing extreme droughts are detrimental to groundwater recharge. On the other hand, disproportionate rainfall tends to wash away fertile topsoil as run-off instead of seeping into the groundwater.
To mitigate the severity of climate change impacts, the Government of India has set up large-scale clean energy projects.
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