India has diverse geography and landscapes spanning plains, hills, plateaus, deserts, coastal regions and islands. To frame climate policies, data on the impacts of climate change across different spatial and temporal scales and sectors are needed, for which climate information is crucial.
This report summarizes the findings of an assessment for all 28 states of India. The timescale for the analysis is the near- or short-term period of the 2030s (2021–2050), and it has been compared with the climate of the near past historical period (1990–2019) at a district level. Climate change projections are done for two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) or climate scenarios, namely RCP 4.5 (moderate emissions scenario) and RCP 8.5 (high emissions scenario).
A warmer and wetter future is projected for almost the whole of India during the short-term period of the 2030s under both climate scenarios.