In 200 Yrs, India's Contribution To Climate Change Is 3%, One Of The Lowest Globally: Javadekar
From the increasing frequency of droughts, heavy rains, floods, and cyclones, India has been on the receiving end of many extreme weather events in recent years and experts have predicted that the number of such incidents is only going to go up in the coming years.
Climate change and global warming have been partly blamed for the increase in such extreme weather events in the Indian subcontinent.
While India is one of the worst affected, the country's contribution to climate change has been minimal.
Just 3 per cent in 200 years
India's contribution to climate change in the last 200 years has been only three per cent, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has said, adding that unbridled carbon emissions especially by Europe and the US over the last 200 years, and in the last 40 years by China have caused the climate change disaster.
Developed nations owe USD 1.1 trillion to developing nations as a part of climate change mitigation under the Paris Agreement, and this was discussed at the G7 Summit, which concluded on Sunday, Javadekar said at the virtual 'Environment Conclave: Revival, Regeneration and Conservation of Nature'.
"India is one of the countries with the least contribution in climate change," Javadekar said.
Speaking about the steps taken by the government to combat air pollution, Javadekar said the adoption of the zig-zag technology in 3,000 out of 6,000 brick kilns around the NCR has also helped in reduction of air pollution.
In zig-zag kilns, bricks are arranged to allow hot air to travel in a zigzag path which results in better mixing of air and fuel, allows complete combustion, reducing coal consumption by about 20 per cent.
Javadekar added that the central government is also taking steps to ensure the country becomes free of single-use plastic by next year.
Global warming's impact on monsoon
According to a recent study, if global warming continues unchecked, summer monsoon rainfall in India will become stronger and more erratic. This is the central finding of an analysis by a team of researchers that compared more than 30 state-of-the-art climate models from all around the world.?
The study predicts more extremely wet years in the future - with potentially grave consequences for more than one billion people's well-being, economy, food systems and agriculture.
"We have found robust evidence for an exponential dependence: For every degree Celsius of warming, monsoon rainfalls will likely increase by about 5%," said lead author Anja Katzenberger from the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany (LMU).
"We see more and more that climate change is about unpredictable weather extremes and their serious consequences," said group leader and co-author Anders Levermann from PIK and Columbia University, New York.
