Among the countless disastrous consequences of climate change will be the degradation and loss of coral reefs, which will affect about 4.5 million people in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, said a report.
India has seen an increase in temperatures of 0.62 degree Celsius over the last 100 years. While the increase is lower than the global average of one degree Celsius, the country has already felt the effects of climate change, the report stated.
Cyclone Amphan, which wreaked havoc in several eastern Indian states in May 2020, earned the notoriety of being the world's costliest natural disaster at an estimated economic loss of over one lakh crore rupees.
