The Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC has said that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land; widespread and rapid changes have been brought about in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. What does this global warming alarm mean for all of us? BOOM Explains.
Dr Arunabha Ghosh, Founder-CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), says that global warming affects us through the associated impact. In terms of hot tropical countries like India, the heat stress becomes critical. It basically means that millions of jobs that are required to be performed outside in the heat will get affected. By 2030 in India alone, we will have a severe loss of the jobs that are possible in the open, which has an economic impact.
He also says that the rich countries have nowhere come close to reducing emissions that they have themselves promised to do. Put together all rich countries have emitted about 25 giga tonnes, extra, between 2008 and 2020. Than what they were permitted. And this extra 25 giga tonnes is effectively nine years of India’s emissions or half the world’s emission in a single year.
Watch BOOM's Govindraj Ethiraj in conversation with Dr Arunabha Ghosh on the IPCC Climate Report and how it will impact India.