Some Indian states have been listed among those with the highest climate risk by 2050 in recently released rankings. According to the rankings, climate change poses a real threat to nations like India, China, and the US. Cross Dependence Initiative, a company that specialises in climate risk analysis for companies, banks, and regions, announced the rankings on Monday (February 20).
According to the rankings, the most vulnerable Indian states are Punjab, Maharashtra, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kerala, and Assam. Mumbai, India’s port city and financial centre, is considered to be at high risk by the rankings. In the rankings’ top 50 high-risk states, nine Indian states were listed. 26 Chinese states as well as 5 US states are included.
These rankings account for the physical danger that eight climate change countries face to infrastructure: coastal flooding, riverine and surface floods, forest fires, extremely high temperatures, soil movement caused by drought, extremely high winds, and freeze-thaw. Global climate models, information on the local environment and weather, and engineering paradigms were all merged.
What Abinash Mohanty, sector head, IPE-Global- an international development organisation said?
Abinash Mohanty, sector head, IPE-Global- an international development organisation said, “gross Domestic Climate Risk ranking by XDI is a stark reminder that climate change will be marauding the developmental trajectories across the global south. The report states that under high emissions scenarios (around four-degree rise), 9 Indian states that are ranked within the top 50 most at-risk states and provinces will witness an average of 110 per cent increase in damage risk by 2050. 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. These numbers speak volumes. 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). India has already established its global thought leadership by founding 21st-century institutions like ISA and CDRI, these institutions should leapfrog in making India the climate solutions hub for the world by fostering systemic, technological, and financial innovations from the margins to the mainstream. Since climate risks and readiness do not go hand-in-hand, promoting nature-based solutions should be a national imperative that can avert the extent of loss and damage to physical assets and infrastructures”.
The most affected provinces are in east and south in case of China.
Also Read: OnePlus 11: Top variant with innovative features to launch in India, specs and all other details here
Keep watching our YouTube Channel ‘DNP INDIA’. Also, please subscribe and follow us on FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, and TWITTER
