India loopt voor in aanpassen aan Klimaatverandering

" India, likely to be one of the countries worst-hit by global warming, is already ahead of most developing nations in putting in place measures to help it adapt to climate change, the World Bank said on Thursday.Experts predict that the earth's temperature will rise by 2-3 degrees centigrade in the next 50 years if greenhouse gas emissions continue at current rates.This will seriously affect the Indian subcontinent and result in more frequent and more severe natural disasters like floods and droughts, more disease and poor crop yields, they add.

Experts estimate that it will cost the world tens of billions of dollars a year for countries to adapt to the new challenges.But Rahill said the cost for India would be marginal compared to its overall development budget."Since India is already investing heavily in infrastructure and other development programmes, the cost of adaptation to climate change would be a marginal increase to that," he said.Rahill said the challenge was to step up measures in rural areas where there were already serious water shortages.

According to India's The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), climate change will particularly hit crop production with around 66 percent of cultivated land dependent on rain."

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