Mitigation aims at reducing climate change impact and it involves reducing the flow of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere either by reducing sources of these gases or enhancing the “sinks” that accumulate and store these gases. Adaptation aims at adapting to life in a changing climate and it involves adjusting to actual or expected future climate. The goal is to reduce our vulnerability to the harmful effects of climate change. This paper deals with climate change scenario in India and climate change impact on agriculture, energy security, water security and health. It outlines the climate change adaptation practices and mitigation measures in agriculture and other sectors. This paper concludes with some interesting findings along with policy suggestions. For instance, according to the estimates stated in climate action plan or the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), India will require a whopping $2.5 trillion to deal with the impacts of climate change by 2030. Decreases in the availability of water and increases in temperature will pose major risk factors to thermal power generation and projects will need to be planed taking into account climatic risks. A Clean Development Mechanism project must be voluntary, generate “real, measurable, and long term benefits related to the mitigation of climate change” and generate “reductions in emissions that are additional to any that would occur in the absence of the certified project”.
Sinks, Vulnerability, Mitigation, Accumulate, Intergovernmental, Frequency, Unpredictable
