India among the countries most affected by climate change, according to a report | news from India

Less than a week before the start of the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change in Katowice, Poland, a Lancet report raised concerns about the debilitating impact of climate change on climate change. human health in the world. India is one of the most severely affected countries by heat stress and lost work hours as a result.

According to the Lancet Countdown 2018 report on health and climate change released on Thursday, each person was exposed to an additional 1.4 day of heat wave between 2000 and 2017 compared to the 1986 to 2005 reference period. In 2017, 157 million phenomena of exposure to an additional heat wave occurred, 18 million more than in 2016.

India experienced 40 more cases of exposure to the wave of heat in 2016 compared to 2012, said. India also lost nearly 75 000 million hours of work in 2017 (ie one year of work for 7% of the labor force), compared with around 43 000 million hours in 2000, an increase of more than 30,000 million hours lost in less than two decades.

For the agricultural sector alone, hours of work lost increased from about 40,000 million hours in 2000 to about 60,000 million hours in 2017, according to a paper. Information for Indian Policy Makers of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), based on the Lancet Countdown Report

The United Nations Climate Change Conferences, also known as COPs, are annual meetings organized for the purpose of Evaluate and negotiate ways to deal with climate change. Issues likely to be debated at this year's conference are the transfer of climate funds from developed to developing countries for adaptation to the impacts of climate change and how countries can sustain the rise in global temperature under 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The report was written by members of 27 organizations, including physicians, academics, and policy professionals, who relied on written work and basic data reports from different countries.

"What we saw in the shared data is that the number, duration and intensity of heat waves have increased in India, especially over the last decade. The morbidity and mortality badociated with the heat wave are reaching peaks. Lancet shared with us summary datasets, "said Dr. Poornima Prabhakaran, badociate professor and badociate director of PHFI's Center for Environmental Health, co-author of the synthesis paper.

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First published: Nov. 29, 2018 07:44 IST