Researchers at IIT Guwahati, IIT Mandi and IISc Bengaluru have developed a climate change vulnerability map for 12 Himalayan states in India that will help prioritise resource allocation to address these vulnerabilities.
The maps will enable them to assess which states in IHR aremore vulnerable, what has made them vulnerable and how the government mightaddress these vulnerabilities.
The results were presentedhere today during a workshop organised by Indian Institute of TechnologyGuwahati and Indian Institute of Technology Mandi with support from IndianInstitute of Science Bengaluru, Department of Science and Technology (DST) andSwiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
The 12 states include Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and the hilly districts of West Bengal, and Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir.