National climate vulnerability assessment Report
Context: The National climate vulnerability assessment report released, has identified Jharkhand, Mizoram, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal as states highly vulnerable to climate change.
- These states, mostly in the eastern part of the country, require prioritization of adaptation interventions.
- The report titled ‘Climate Vulnerability Assessment for Adaptation Planning in India Using a Common Framework’, identifies the most vulnerable states and districts in India with respect to current climate risk and key drivers of vulnerability.
Need:
- Extreme events are on rise both in terms of their number and severity.
- Mapping the parts of India that are vulnerable to such changes will help initiating climate actions at the ground level.
Significance of these findings:
- It can benefit climate-vulnerable communities across India through development of better-designed climate change adaptation projects.
- Assessing vulnerability is the first step towards assessing climate risk.
- There are two other components like Hazard and Exposure that need to be also assessed to arrive at overall climate risk.
- Report will help to identify the most vulnerable states, districts & panchayats and will aid in prioritizing adaptation investment, developing and implementing adaptation programs.
- It will contribute to the development of more targeted climate change projects and that they will support the implementation and the potential revisions of the State Action Plans on Climate Change.
- The assessments can further be used for India’s reporting on the Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement.
- These assessments will support India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change.