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National climate vulnerability assessment Report

19th April, 2021 Environment

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.

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