Rising temperatures to gas emissions, here is India's climate change story

India has readied its draft of the Biennial Update Report on climate change for the UN. It details, growth in India’s greenhouse gas emissions, what India is doing to tackle them and the climate change impacts that India is already witnessing.

The annual mean temperature for the period 1901-2015 over India has shown a significant increasing trend of 0.63°C per hundred years. This has led to changes in the climate, including exacerbated extreme weather events. The frequency with which rainstorm events occur has increased between 1951-2015. The frequency of dry days has also increased simultaneously. 

India is committed to improve the greenhouse