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India, U.K. to assess climate change impact

NEW DELHI: India and the United Kingdom have announced five new projects to assess the potential impact of climate change on the country. They will also take up regional projects to identify and develop adaptation strategies.

This was announced at the first Indo-U.K. programme on climate change impacts and adaptation-phase II workshop held here on Monday. The second phase of the collaborative research programme follows a major assessment of the impact of climate change on India, carried out by the U.K.’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests.

The projects will develop improved scenarios for predicting the impact up to 2050. Two regional projects will be executed in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh to assess the impact and vulnerability, and to develop adaptation options.

The five projects are linking water and agriculture in river basins (IIT-Delhi); development of high-resolution climate change scenarios for India (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune); State-level vulnerability and adaptation assessment (Madhya Pradesh-Development Alternatives, New Delhi); State-level vulnerability assessment and adaptation strategies (Orissa-Winrock International India); and the socio-economic impact of climate extremes (IIM, Ahmedabad).

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