Climate change to deliver debilitating blow to seven Karnataka districts: https://www.deccanherald.com/state/top-karnataka-stories/climate-change-to-deliver-debilitating-blow-to-seven-karnataka-districts-study-1047482.html NOV 05 2021.
The study, which is part of Karnataka government's draft climate action plan, said the extremities caused by climate change will effect change in vegetation in Vijayapura, Raichur, Koppal, Ballari, Chitradurga, Kodagu and Hassan under both low-emission and high-emission scenarios.
Indu K Murthy, Principal Research Scientist, Adaptation and Risk Analysis, at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy: , "This means that the future climate at such locations will not be suitable for existing vegetation or forest type and biodiversity. The forest type change may be accompanied by forest dieback and mortality,” the study added.
Interventions were needed to prepare districts, especially farmers, by including crops that are resistant to climate change.
The study suggested that forest and agriculture policies need to change at the earliest with measures adopted to promote biodiversity at every level.
“Allowing the market to drive such policies will lead to monocropping and monoculture. Instead, the rules related to social and agroforestry as well as agriculture have to adopt measures that proactively promote biodiversity. This can also prepare the farmers to face the future,” she said.
study Experts have called for detailed studies to understand the various facets of the problem Chiranjeevi Kulkarni, DHNS, Bengaluru, NOV 05 2021, 01:08 ISTUPDATED:..
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