Exploring India’s climate financing policies, this blog highlights the urgent need for resilience and adaptation strategies in response to increasing climate vulnerabilities and extreme weather events.

Climate financing policies across the globe, including India, prioritised investments in mitigation in sectors such as agriculture, waste management, renewable energy, and low-carbon transport with the long-term goal of reducing carbon emissions. Consequently, the inception of climate-resilient infrastructure and adaptation strategies were at the bottom of the list of policy priorities.

Climate change refers to long-term fluctuations in temperature and weather patterns. Variations in the solar cycle are generally responsible for such fluctuations. But, since the 1800s human activities such as burning of fossil fuels and coal have been the drivers for such changes. When fossil fuels are burned, it causes combustion which increases the heat and light leading to rise in the temperature of the earth, also known as Greenhouse effect.