Increases in population and incomes, unequal financial allocations, social inequities, community exploitation, and insufficient climate risk assessment for integrated policy and financial decisions have led to a lack of coherent decision making about climate uncertainties. There is also a lack of research on new technologies that build domestic capacities for climate action. Climate change impacts such as extreme weather deeply impact communities where majority of the household will suffer. This results in a national decrease in productivity with impacts on food and nutrition resulting in malnutrition in women and children. Also, the transport sector is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 10% while natural resource extraction is increasing and 240 million people in India have no access to electricity.
To address these issues, we need to work on making India a resource efficient economy by increasing support for research, evidence-based policies and circular economies in a way that fosters just transition, builds resilience, and strengthens livelihoods.