West Bengal, compared to other states, does not have a large coastline, as it spans just 210 km in the districts of East Midnapore and South 24 Parganas but faces the major problem of maximum coastal erosion due to climate change-induced rising .
This issue is cited by Dr Anjal Prakash, the research director with the Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business and one of the authors of the 6th assessment report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).Base
People residing in and around the Sundarbans the world's largest mangrove forest are being forced to spend their meager incomes on buying drinking water as climate change and local policies exhaust their options.