Lok Sabha Question No. 1277 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-12-11
Subject: Climate Change
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Vivek Narayan Shejwalkar

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1277

TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.12.2023

## Climate Change

## 1277.   SHRI VIVEK NARAYAN SHEJWALKAR:

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

- (a) whether the Government has conducted any study to identify the States which are most affected by the continuous climate change;
- (b) the details of the facilities being provided by the Government to students carrying out research on climate change; and
- (c) the name of the crops which are most affected by climate change?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

(a) and (b) Climate change is a cross-cutting issue spanning various Ministries/Departments and  institutions  under  them.  Research  on  climate  change  is  mainly  sponsored  by  the Department  of  Science  and  Technology,  Ministry  of  Earth  Sciences  (MoES),  Ministry  of Environment,  Forest and Climate  Change  (MoEFCC),  Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Sectoral aspects of climate change are also studied by different Ministries/Departments  concerning  sectors  like  agriculture,  water  resources,  human  health, power, renewable energy,  transport,  urban,  etc.  Further,  many  universities  and  government research  institutions  such  as  the  Indian  Institute  of  Technologies  (IITs),  Indian  Institute  of Science  (IISc),  Central  and  State  Universities  and  their  departments  also  carry  out  climate change  related  research.    All  such  research  facilities  may  be  availed  by  students  as  per established procedure in this regard.

Government of India through its various Ministries/Departments assesses the impact of climate change in keeping with the new data and increased scientific knowledge on the subject. Also, at the State level various research organisations, universities, academia undertake studies on climate change as per their mandate. One of the studies undertaken by Department of Science and  Technology  to  understand  the  impact  of  Climate  Change  is  'Climate  Vulnerability Assessment for Adaptation Planning in India Using a Common Framework' (https://dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/Full%20Report%20%281%29.pdf)

As  per  Ministry  of  Agriculture  and  Farmers'  Welfare,  several  climate  change  research infrastructure facilities such as Free Air Temperature Enrichment (FATE) chamber, Carbon dioxide and Temperature Gradient Chambers (CTGC), Temperature Gradient Tunnel (TGT), Eddy-Covariance Towers, Automatic rain-out shelters, Psychometric Chamber, Gas

Chromatography, Methane Analyzer, Environmental Growth Chambers, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Animal Calorimetric System, Recirculatory Aquaculture System etc. were established  at  several  ICAR  institutes  including  ICAR-IARI,  New  Delhi;  ICAR-NRRI, Cuttack; ICAR-RC NEH, Umiam; ICAR-IIHR, Bangalore; ICAR-NIASM, Baramati; ICARIIVR, Varanasi; CMFRI, Cochin; NDRI, Karnal; CIBA, Chennai to enhance the research and development on climate change. These facilities are being extensively used by the students of M.Sc. and Ph. D. for research work.

(c) The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare,  Government  of  India  has  conducted  climate  change  impact  analysis  including changing monsoon patterns and its effect on agriculture sector under National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) project. Climate change impacts crops such as rice, wheat  and  maize.  In  the  absence  of  adoption  of  adaptation  measures,  climate  change projections  are  likely  to  reduce  rainfed  rice  yields  by  2-20%  in  2050  and  10-47%  in  2080 scenarios while, irrigated rice yields by 2-3.5% in 2050 and 2-5% in 2080 scenarios, wheat yield by 8.4-19.3% in 2050 and 18.9-41% in 2080 scenarios and kharif maize yields by 1019% in 2050 and >20% by 2080 scenarios.

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