Climate change will pose serious challenges in Uttarakhand in the coming years. These challenges could include epidemics of diseases like malaria and negative impacts on rural livelihoods.
The AR5 lead author, Dr Akhilesh Surjan of Kyoto University said this at the technical session during the public event on IPCC's fifth Assessment Report. Surjan stressed on the need for study of climate change in the Himalayan region on the lines of IPCC, emphasising on the need for increasing mutual cooperation between policy and science.
Prof at Divercha Centre for Climate Change at Indian Institute of Science and AR5 lead author, G Bala said that it is estimated that if immediate measures are not taken to mitigate climate change, the level of carbon di oxide in the environment will be double the present level by the end of this century.
Chairing the technical session State chief secretary, N Ravishankar said that it is a welcome step that the findings and recommendations of AR5 are now being shared at sub-national level and now it becomes a responsibility of policy makers to plan right policies and implement them.
Advisor to CM, Indu Kumar Pandey, chairing the stakeholder session suggested using traditional knowledge with the community for adaption efforts.