India is a country which will be severely impacted by climate change. This puts additional hurdles in its developmental path in addition to the challenges of poverty eradication and growing population. The projected impacts of climate change cut across various sectors, natural system such as coastal areas, water resources, forests, agriculture and health. With a large agrarian population, India is vulnerable to changes in weather parameters. Further, rainfall variability and melting of glaciers will impact replenishment of rivers, thereby affecting availability of water in river basins and watersheds. In India, most of the rivers flowing in the northern regions are dependent on snow and glacial melt; thus climate change threatens the perennial nature of these rivers. This has huge implications for agriculture and allied activities and resultant livelihoods. This is a serious concern for an economy that is tied to its natural resources base along its developmental path.
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