IndiaClimateDialogue: Climate impacts hit 750 million South Asians over 10 years

Almost 750 million people in South Asia were affected by floods, droughts, extreme rainfall, heat waves and sea-level rise — all impacts of climate change.

June 17, 2017

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A new study looks at five major impacts of climate change, the sectors and the people most vulnerable

Communities along Bangladesh’s southwest coastline struggled to rebuild their lives after Cyclone Alia struck in May 2009. (Photo by Mohammad Rakibul Hasan CGIAR)

Almost 750 million people in South Asia were affected by floods, droughts, extreme rainfall, heat waves and sea-level rise — all impacts of climate change or worsened by it — in the first decade of this millennium, according to new research by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).

Read the full story on the India Climate Dialogue website.