India

It takes only 28 days for the average Canadian to produce as much greenhouse gases as the average Indian will produce over the course of the entire year.  Therefore, January 28th (28 days into the year) is "Climate Change Impacts in India Day."

“India is likely to suffer a wide array of impacts, ranging from insecure energy and food supplies and reduced availability of fresh water to extreme weather events, such as cyclones, flooding, heatwaves, and droughts. The worst-hit will be the poor in both rural and urban areas, who are more vulnerable and whose ability to recover from disasters is lower. Public health, human development goals and the country’s rich biodiversity will all be hit.” Climate disturbances such as high floods and droughts frequencies during the annual monsoon season and the fast melting of the Himalayan glaciers will likely to create water crisis for India in next 20 to 50 years.  In the agricultural sector, the significant impact of climate change has already been seen: “the growth in production of food grains has stagnated since the late 1990s, and this has been accompanied by large year-to-year variations.  In fact, the rate of growth of production and yield from 1991 to 2005 has been lowest since India gained independence.”

For more information on climate change impacts in India, continue reading the Oxfam International report, 'Asia up in Smoke'.