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Climate impacts in Indian Sundarbans more severe because of the region’s development deficit, says new study by Indian NGO

Posted by: sarah-indra, 3. January 2012 - 11:38
Source: http://cseindia.org

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Manmade embankments protect the low-lying villages - like this one in the Sunderbans, India

It is well known that Sundarbans, one of the most biodiversity-rich habitats in the world, is getting severely pummeled by changing climate. What is now becoming apparent – at least in the Indian part of Sundarbans – is that the impacts of climate change have all the more worsened because of official apathy and complete lack of development planning in this region.

This conclusion has come from a new study and a report thereon, done in Indian Sundarbans, by the New Delhi-based research and advocacy organisation Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). CSE released the study titled ‘Living with changing climate: Impact, vulnerability and adaptation challenges in Indian Sunderbans’, here today in a function organised in partnership with the Bangladesh-based Coastal Development Partnership (CDP).

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