Climate adaptation technologies: How India can protect its communities against climate change
Adaptation technologies and solutions in India should be developed and customized to address the existing climate-induced vulnerabilities especially around agricultural production and food security, disaster risks, access to resources (water, power, coastal resources etc.) and human health.
Over the past few years, India has witnessed a spike in the intensity and frequency of climate change induced extreme weather events. In the absence of adaptation measures, extreme river floods are likely to affect an additional 13-34 million people by the 2040s and expose 18 million people to sea-level rise induced flooding annually.
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These outcomes will have far reaching implications on India's economic growth and productivity, health of its communities and availability of natural resources. The impact could be cataclysmic for poor and marginal farmers, coastal communities, forest communities, minority groups, assetless population, and especially women.
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Adaptation technologies and solutions in India should be developed and customized to address the existing climate-induced vulnerabilities especially around agricultural production and food security, disaster risks, access to resources (water, power, coastal resources etc.) and human health.
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Many of the solutions require upfront investment and become prohibitive in the absence of appropriate financing solutions. For instance, structural approaches to protect against destructive flooding from sea-level rise, micro and drip irrigation systems to reduce crop water demand, construction of flood proof drinking water wells to prevent contamination of water supplies, desalination to increase water quantity, grey storm water management systems to prevent inland flooding etc. are expansive solutions and may need financing.
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