Mitigating Climate Emergency In India

India is facing a serious threat of climate change which is leading to widespread suffering, impacting ecosystems as well as socio-economic systems. With Cyclone Tauktae and Yass, we can see that low income and other marginalized groups are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

Monsoon rainfalls in the Indian subcontinent would likely increase about five percent for every degree Celsius of warming, a report by McKinsey Global Institute said. India as a country, according to the World Resources Institute (WRI), has the highest number of people exposed to river flood risk.

India needs the political will to make big investments in equitable community resilience: From standard desilting of rivers, reinforcing embankments, restoration of floodplains, amalgamation of efficient reservoir operation, to sponsoring appropriate flood-proofing solutions at the household level. It is time for governments and policy makers to turn it into a lesson for the climate emergency.