NEW DELHI: An accelerated growth in the development of alternate energy sources will better prepare India to brace against climate change, experts said on Friday.
At a panel discussion on ‘Climate Risk and Security’ here, Atomic Energy Commission’s former chairman Anil Kakodkar said: “Climate risk is important to understand for countries like India, where both development deficits and development aspirations are very large.
“India must aim to accelerate its development which would in turn increase its ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change better,” he said, impressing the need for India to be “aware and prepared for extreme climate impacts which could lead to sea level rise, floods, storms, shrinking landmass and migrating populations”.
Qi Ye, the director of Brookings-Tsinghua Centre for Public Policy in Beijing, called for India and China to look beyond the border dispute and work in tandem to comabt the menace of climate change.
