India among countries that will be most 'economically harmed': IPCC report

Report says India will face extreme weathers, water scarcity, health hazards, threat to food security

India will face extreme scenarios emerging from climate change on almost all fronts — from rising sea leve­ls to groundwater scarcity, from extreme weather patterns to a fall in crop production, besides a rise in health hazards. The United Nations Inter­gov­ernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents this grim pict­ure in the second part of its sixth as­sessment report released on Monday.

Referring to India as one of the countries that will be most “economically harmed” by climate change, the report highlights a risky anomaly of it facing both rising sea levels and water scarcity. “India is one of the most