{"id":4268,"date":"2019-09-05T22:21:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2019-09-05T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:51:37","slug":"indias-climate-score-high-on-vulnerability-low-on-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/indias-climate-score-high-on-vulnerability-low-on-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s climate score: high on vulnerability, low on resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HSBC\u2019s 2018 assessment of India ranks it as the country most vulnerable to climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Major problems<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Against scientific warnings, carbon emissions continue to rise in China, the U.S., and India.<\/li>\n<li>Brazil is encouraging unprecedented deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. As forest fires worsen global warming, the hardest hit by the resulting floods, storms, heatwaves, and droughts will be in India.<\/li>\n<li>Cutting hurdles to investment can boost short-term growth and benefit interest groups. But damaging the environment would be self-defeating as it would impact long-term growth and well-being.<br \/>\nVulnerability threat to India<\/li>\n<li>A number of Indian States have experienced extreme heatwaves in the past three years, and Delhi recently recorded a temperature of 48\u00b0C, its hottest day in 21 years.<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s exposure to climate hazards is heightened by the location of its coastline in the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.<\/li>\n<li>India also has a high population density located in the danger zone. For instance, Kerala, which experienced intense floods and landslides in 2018 and 2019, is among the States with the highest density.<\/li>\n<li>Increasing temperatures and changing seasonal rainfall patterns are aggravating droughts and hurting agriculture across the country.<\/li>\n<li>Extreme storms like the one that hit Odisha this year and the floods that swept Chennai in 2015 are damaging when infrastructure is not resilient.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Importance of resilience<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India must boost its coastal and inland defences.<\/li>\n<li>It needs to do more to build resilience in the sectors of agriculture, fisheries, manufacturing, energy, transport, health, and education.<\/li>\n<li>The priority for spending at the national and State levels for disaster management needs to rise.<\/li>\n<li>Adequate resources must also be allocated for implementing climate action plans that most States have now prepared.<\/li>\n<li>India must reinforce its infrastructure and adapt its agriculture and industry.<\/li>\n<li>India should replace urgently its fossil fuels with renewable energy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global leadership must act with greater urgency. Countries should switch rapidly from polluting fossil fuels to cleaner renewable energy.<\/li>\n<li>There is a need for building much stronger coastal and inland defences against climatic damage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Environment Context HSBC\u2019s 2018 assessment of India ranks it as the country most vulnerable to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,42],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}