Climate Change Adaptation

Climate change adaptation refers to India’s policy and programme-based approach to reduce vulnerability of communities, ecosystems, and economic sectors to the adverse impacts of climate change through resilience-building, risk reduction, and adaptive capacity enhancement.

Key Stakeholders/Targeted Segments

  • Climate-vulnerable rural and coastal communities
  • Farmers and rainfed agricultural regions
  • Himalayan and hill States
  • Urban poor and informal settlements
  • Forest-dependent and tribal populations
  • State and local government institutions

Government Initiatives & Achievements

India’s Climate Action under UNFCCC & Paris Agreement

  • Objective: Stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations, limit global temperature rise, and promote climate-resilient development through international cooperation and nationally driven actions.
  • Achievement: Under the United Nations Framework Convention on ....
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