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Experts in India raised concerns about India’s vulnerability to environmental issues. Millions of Indians are trying to cope with a scorching heatwave that has swept across the country, with birds becoming increasingly tired and dehydrated.
India is currently experiencing an intense heatwave. According to the India Meteorological Department, the country has seen its warmest March since 122 years.
Mohammad Farooq Azam, a researcher at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (AA), spoke to Anadolu Agency. He stated that the ongoing heatwaves in India and other South Asian nations is a clear example of climate change.
“The past March and April have been the hottest in the century. The current May is expected to be warmer by 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degree Fahrenheit) than the normal May temperature.” He added that heatwaves cause severe harm to our society and other ecosystems.
Avantika Goswami is the program manager at Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi. She stated that India is losing approximately 101 billion hours of work each year to extreme heat.
“This will increase as global temperature rises further. Our agricultural yield is already being affected by climate change, and so are the threats from sea level rise and extreme rainfall,” she said.
Azam stated that India will experience more heatwaves due to climate changes.
“A sharp curbing of black carbon emissions at local as well as the global scale is needed to limit/reverse the imminent climate-change-related catastrophes,” he said.
India is taking steps to address climate change, increasing dependence on renewable sources of energy, including solar energy. But Azam believes that more climate change research centers should be established at the most prestigious institutions in the country.
Goswami stated that India is one of most vulnerable countries to climate changes, but it has “emitted only 33% of carbon dioxide emissions from 1870, making India a very minor contributor to the climate crises.”
She called for a plan that would address coal dependence, and she said that domestic goals should be stronger implemented.
She said, “We have ambitious climate goals right now, focusing mainly on decarbonizing energy sector.”
Suman Mor, Chairperson of the Department of Environment Studies in North India, is based at Panjab University. She stated that climate models predict that India will experience rapid climate change, which will increase the country’s natural ecosystems and agricultural output. She recently completed a research project entitled Improving adaptation strategies in response to climate extremes and air polluting India.
She told AA that if mitigation and adaptation measures are not taken quickly, wisely and on a large-scale, the country will likely be unable to maintain its rapid economic growth and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), that U.N. member countries agreed to in 2015.
On the other hand, the Indian government maintains that it is implementing India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change. This is the overall policy framework for Indian climate action.
“Several additional measures have been taken, keeping in mind the threat from climate change, by various ministries and entities of government as part their regular mandated actions and responsibilities. These are periodically shared with all stakeholders and the world through India’s National Communications and Biennial Update Reports submitted to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change,” said the government in parliament last month.
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