The Government has set up the “Expert Committee on Impacts of Climate Change” on 7th May 2007 under the chairmanship of Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India to study the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on India and to identify the measures that we may have to take in the future in relation to addressing vulnerability to anthropogenic climate change impacts.
Dr. R. K. Pachauri, Director General of The Energy Resources Institute(TERI) is also the Chairman of the Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), which has submitted its three Working Group Reports recently. These Reports provides a global assessment of observed climate change, climate processes and estimates of projected/future climate change, impacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems and their vulnerability etc. and provides findings at the continental level. No country specific findings for any country including India have been provided in these Reports.
This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Shri Namo Narayana Meena in a written reply to question by Shrimati N P .Durga in the Rajya Sabha today.
Report on Climate Change in India
