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Title: Extreme weather events impact 75% of India’s districts: Report
Source:The Hindustan Times
Date:11 December 2020

A new report has found more than 75% of India’s districts are hot spots of extreme climate events. With an unusual spike in extreme events since 2005, these districts are bearing the effects of changing microclimate with loss of property, livelihoods and lives. Coming on the heels of United Nations Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2020 that warned on 09 December 2020 that the world was heading for a temperature rise of over 3 degree C this century, the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) report has highlighted that even with a 0.6 degree C rise in temperature over the past century, India is facing devastating consequences.




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