The recent events like floods in Kerala, wildfire in Uttarakhand etc shows India's vulnerability to climate changes.
On October 8, 2018 a new report in going to be released by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This report mainly is an assessment on the effectiveness of various initiatives taken by different nations in mitigating the climate change.
In 10 years the carbon pollution is going to reach to it threshold.As per the report India being the second largest producer of coal after China is going to risk around 600 million Indians due to climate change.
As part of the Paris Agreement, India has agreed to cut down the carbon pollution by rising the renewable power capacity to 40% by 2030 ( currently 20% as on 2018).
The major issue India is going to face due to climate change are:
- Increase in heat waves
- Water crisis
- Lower living standards due various disasters resulting from climate changes
- Nutrition crisis
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