India's Climate Hotspots - Page 2
India is the world’s third largest carbon emitter but historically, between 1850-2019, India contributed just 4% of global cumulative greenhouse gas emissions. Even so, like many countries from the global South, India is heavily affected by cloudbursts, flash floods, droughts, cyclones and heatwaves.
India had extreme weather events on 242 of the 273 days between January 1 and September 30, 2022.
Tracking the impacts of climate-change at the local level is key to understanding its current and potential impacts on people, in mitigation, and in larger policy-formulation to combat climate-change and its impacts.
In this ongoing project, we are tracking climate change hotspots across India, and you can find stories spanning the length and breadth of the country, from Ratnagiri in Maharashtra to Srinagar in Kashmir to Panna in Madhya Pradesh and Ganjam in Odisha.
Homes Disappear, Walls Crumble As India’s Coasts--Battered By Human Activity--Are Now Ravaged By...
Honnavar, Karnataka: First, in 2011, the sea took away some of their land. Three years later, the waves demolished a section of their home. That is...
In The Himalayas, Living The Crisis That The IPCC Report Warns Of
Hampta Pass, Himachal Pradesh: “Prithvi garam ho rahi hai [the earth is warming],” said trek guide Karan Sharma, pointing at the 20,000-foot Indrasan...
