PANAJI
Forest Survey of India (FSI) has recently published a report titled: ‘Mapping Climate Change Hotspots in Indian Forests based on observed Climate Change and High Resolution Climate Model Projections’. Dr Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Assistant Professor, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus has contributed to this prestigious report.
Based on observed historical climate data and by using future climate change projections in the 21st century, this report mapped climate change hotspots in Indian forests at a very high spatial resolution. The study concludes that forested grids in Himalayan region and from the north-eastern States consistently appear as climate change hotspots across climate change scenarios and time-horizons.
Recently Dr Chaturvedi has also contributed to India’s Third Biennial Update Report (BUR), that Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India recently submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Dr Chaturvedi, has contributed to this report as an external reviewer along with renowned scientists, experts and officials in the field from reputed Indian academic institutions and government offices.
India is a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as such India periodically reports about its national circumstances, national GHG inventory, mitigation actions, and an analysis of the constraints, gaps and related finance, technology and capacity building needs, including information on domestic measurements, reporting and verification.
Following are links for those reports:
http://webline.org.in/technical-information-series-vol2-no5-2020.pdf
https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/INDIA_%20BUR-3_20.02.2021_High.pdf
