Lok Sabha Question No. 249 (STARRED), answered on 2018-08-03
Subject: Study of Climate Change
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: DEVUSINH JESINGBHAI CHAUHAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 249

TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.08.2018

## Study of Climate Change

- *249. SHRI DEVUSINH CHAUHAN:

Will  the  Minister  of  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND  CLIMATE  CHANGE  be  pleased  to state:

- (a) whether the Government has allotted enough fund for the latest technology to study the climate change issues in the country; and
- (b) if so, the details thereof including the action/development plan in this regard?

## ANSWER

MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE (DR. HARSH VARDHAN)

- (a) to (b) The statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) to (b) OF THE LOK SABHA STARRED  QUESTION  No.  249  DUE  FOR  03.08.2018  REGARDING  STUDY  OF CLIMATE CHANGE RAISED BY SHRI DEVUSINH CHAUHAN

(a&b)  The  study  on  various  aspects  of  climate  change  vis-à-vis  energy,  water,  agriculture, forestry, human health, habitat, transportation, etc. is embedded in respective sectoral schemes of various  Ministries  for  which  allocations  are  made  in  annual  budget  based  on  the  projected requirement  from  time  to  time.  Recently,  this  Ministry  has  launched  two  programs,  namely National Carbonaceous Aerosols Program and Long Term Ecological Observatories Program to study black carbon impact on climate and monitor impact of climate change on flora and fauna respectively by using state of the art technology. Sufficient funds have been provided for these projects under the scheme 'Climate Change Action Plan'.

The Ministry of Earth Sciences has augmented its High Performance Computer (HPC) facilities  at  Indian  Institute  of  Tropical  Meteorology  (IITM),  Pune  and  at National  Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida. With these facilities the weather and climate modeling capability has been substantially augmented in the country.

The  Centre  of  Climate  Change  Research  (CCCR)  at  IITM  focuses  on  development  of new climate modeling capabilities to address global and regional issues concerning the science of climate change. The IITM Earth System Model - a global modeling framework for long-term climate investigations was developed indigenously at CCCR.  It is the first climate model from India  to  contribute  to  the  Coupled  Modeling  Inter-comparison  Project  Phase-6  (CMIP6) experiments  and  to  the  Sixth  Assessment  Report  of  the  Intergovernmental  Panel  on  Climate Change. This model is used for the future climate change projections over India.

The Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX), an international scientific  project  led  by  IITM,  aims  to  produce  regional  downscaled  projections  to  better understand  relevant  regional/local  climate  phenomena,  their  variability  and  changes.  The information  for  the  South  Asia  region  has  been  used  to  evaluate  climate  change  impacts  on processes that are sensitive to finer-scale climate gradients and the effects of local topography on climate conditions.

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