Published: 24th Feb, 2023
Context
According to a recent ranking, the vast majority (80%) of 50 provinces facing the highest climate risk to their physical infrastructure by 2050 are in China, the US, and India.
About
The Report
- Report: 2023 Gross Domestic ClimateRisk report
- Released by: Cross Dependency Initiative (XDI)
- The report calculated the physical climaterisk to the built environment in over 2,600 states and provinces worldwide in 2050.
Key-highlights of the Report:
- Asia dominated the list with 114 among the top 200 regions falling here.
- Chinahad the highest number of regions, followed by India and the United States of America (USA).
- India has nine states in the 50 high risk states; China, 26, and the US, five.
What does it say about India?
- Most Vulnerable: In India, Punjab, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kerala and Assam are the most vulnerable.
- The ranking indicates underlining that India’s commercial capital, Mumbai is at high risk.
- Extreme event hotspots: Currently, with a 0.8 degrees rise in temperature, India’s 27 states and more than three-quarters of its districts are extreme event hotspots accounting for a 5 percent loss in GDP.
- Economic loss: If global warming is not limited to 2-degree thresholds, climate-vulnerable states like Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, among others, will lose more than 10 per cent of their gross state domestic product (GSDP).
- The Gross Domestic Climate Risk ranking reflects physical risk to the built infrastructure from eight climate change hazards: riverine and surface flooding, coastal inundation (coastal flooding), extreme heat, forest fire, soil movement (drought-related), extreme wind and freeze thaw.
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Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP):
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Concern for India
The Himalayas in the north, coastal areas in the south and the semi-arid region in central India — no part and sector of the country is spared.
- Exposure to sea: India has one of the highest populations exposed to rising sea levels.
- Alarming urbanisation: In the next 15 years, 600 million Indians will be living in cities, which makes improving their adaptive capacities more urgent.
- Hit on agriculture: In agrarian economy, crop production to be hit severely with rising cases of heat waves, drought, floods
- Disease spread: Health hazards, especially communicable diseases, instances of widespread flu to increase
Suggestive Measures:
- Climate-oriented activities: India needs to integrate climate adaptation into its development by investing in
- climate-smart agriculture
- blue-green infrastructure (infrastructure that capitalises on the benefits of working with green spaces and naturalised water-flows)
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Government Initiative to deal with climate change
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