Scaling climate adaptation from policy to grassroots

India is the ninth most climate-vulnerable nation globally, with 430 excessive climate occasions recorded between 1995 and 2024, inflicting losses of $170 billion and impacting 1.3 billion folks. India’s Nationally Decided Contributions (NDCs) for 2031–35 acknowledge these dangers and emphasise the mainstreaming of local weather resilience and adaptation into the nation’s improvement technique.

The up to date NDCs strengthen adaptation throughout coastal resilience, infrastructure, catastrophe preparedness, warmth mitigation, biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods. This aligns with international commitments to triple adaptation finance by 2035 and the adoption of Belém Adaptation Indicators at COP30. Nonetheless, reaching these objectives would require sustained financing and institutionalising adaptation from nationwide to the grass-root ranges.