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During the summers, in the crowded informal settlement she calls home in Ahmedabad, India, Meenaben would lay wet jute on the floor and hay on the roof of her home to lower the temperature inside. If she didn’t, her home would get so hot her husband would sometimes be hospitalized with heatstroke.
Meenaben’s home is made of building materials that trap heat; without air conditioning and insulation, her home can reach upwards to 45 degrees C (113 degrees F) inside. Extreme temperatures aren’t the only threat. During the monsoon season, Meenaben would watch rising flood waters destroy her neighbors’ homes, leaving fetid pools of water in their wake.
Saving lives and livelihoods: The benefits of investments in climate change adaptation and resilience, March 2021
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Adaptation to and resilience against the impacts of climate change are urgent and growing priorities around the world as levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to increase. Impacts such as sea level rise and changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including heavy rainfall, tropical storms and heatwaves, are a threat to lives and livelihoods around the world. These impacts undermine economic development and efforts to eliminate poverty and raise living standards. Indeed, efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals are being harmed by climate change impacts that are already occurring. It is the poorest people in every country who are usually most vulnerable and exposed to these impacts. And these impacts will continue to grow until global emissions of greenhouse gases are reduced effectively to [net] zero.
Are Indiaâs Cities Planning to Be Victims of Climate Change? A Tale From Gujarat
An excerpt from Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope by M. Rajshekhar, published by Westland/Context.
Traffic moves along roads in Ahmedabad, India, March 21, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave
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The following is an unedited excerpt, published with permission, from Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope by M. Rajshekhar, published by Westland/Context, January 2021.
India’s track record on climate adaptive/mitigative urban planning has been dismal. Most buildings and houses use construction material that absorb heat and drive up cooling costs. Cities have low and decreasing tree cover, and rising hard spaces. As Bangalore found in 2017, even after heavy rains, there is little groundwater recharge. In city after city, lakes, which can recharge groundwater, are being killed through real estate development. Little thought
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