Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA)
Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA)
February 3, 2025 at 03:02 PM
With 14 million Indians estimated to be displaced by climate change and environmental crises, a number expected to exceed 45 million over the next 25 years, climate-induced displacement and migration is a blindspot in India’s policy and public finance frameworks. Net-zero targets and mitigation measures—the government increased its budgetary allocation for renewable energy by 143%—overshadow adaptation issues, such as human mobility, with the National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change cut from Rs 118 crore in 2015 to zero. *_Write Evita Rodrigues as part of the Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2024 from the Centre for Financial Accountability_* https://www.cenfa.org/millions-poised-to-be-displaced-by-climate-change-but-few-signs-india-is-planning-or-budgeting-for-it/

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