Countries worst hit or marginally hit by climate change and India’s position
Current scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change on the various continents and regions at global scale are provided in the 4th Assessment Report of the Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change published in 2007.However, country-wise assessments are not available.
According to results of the various studies undertaken under the aegis of India’s Initial National Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), climate change may have adverse impacts in form of extreme weather events, water stress, glacial melt, sea-level rise that could flood coastal settlements, occurrence of vector disease, etc.
Climate change is a long term phenomenon. It has occurred due to increase in concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere emitted through various human activities. It could be controlled by stabilizing the greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere by reducing emission of greenhouse gases having origin in human activities and enhancing the sources of sinks through afforestation.
This information was given by the Shri Namo Narain Meena, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and currently looking after Ministry of Environment and Forests in a return reply to question by Dr. K. Malaismay in the Rajya Sabha today.
Current scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change on the various continents and regions at global scale are provided in the 4th Assessment Report of the Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change published in 2007.However, country-wise assessments are not available.
According to results of the various studies undertaken under the aegis of India’s Initial National Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), climate change may have adverse impacts in form of extreme weather events, water stress, glacial melt, sea-level rise that could flood coastal settlements, occurrence of vector disease, etc.
Climate change is a long term phenomenon. It has occurred due to increase in concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere emitted through various human activities. It could be controlled by stabilizing the greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere by reducing emission of greenhouse gases having origin in human activities and enhancing the sources of sinks through afforestation.
This information was given by the Shri Namo Narain Meena, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and currently looking after Ministry of Environment and Forests in a return reply to question by Dr. K. Malaismay in the Rajya Sabha today.
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