At COP27, India supports early warning systems on climate impacts

Environment minister Bhupender Yadav says country 'making swift progress' in building such systems

Climate finance for developing nations is a mirage and adapting measures such as early warning about extreme weather events will save lives, said India’s environment minister Bhupender Yadav at the UN’s annual climate-change summit in Egypt on Tuesday.

“Early warnings for all play a part in not just containing the immediate physical impacts, but also mitigating the far-reaching long-term socio-economics implications that follow,” Yadav said.

India leads the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), an international organisation developing applications for climate forecast and early warning for reducing infrastructure loss and disruption in basic services.

CDRI at the 27th session of