3.8 million people internally displaced due to weather-related disasters in India in 2020

 New Delhi: In 2020, more than 3.8 million people were internally displaced, mainly due to weather-related disasters, according to a special report to the United Nations General Assembly, as countries around the world grapple with extreme weather events , from drought to floods. India hosted more than 5 million new refugees, while China and the United States received more than 1.7 million.

Ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York this month, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change Ian Fry highlighted how climate change affects or violates the rights of people around the world. change... change. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to New York to attend and address the annual general meeting and climate change is one of India's key tasks this year.

The report strongly criticized the lack of commitment from key polluters, saying that G20 members would not be able to meet their inevitable nationally determined contribution obligations based on pre-COVID-19 forecasts. “The five G20 countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Korea and the United States) are expected to fall short, so further action is needed. In contrast, the world's 55 most vulnerable economies have lost more than half of their economic growth potential as a result of the climate crisis," the report said. In 2019, the world's largest emitters of carbon dioxide: China, the United States, India, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, the Russian Federation and Japan together accounted for 67% of total carbon dioxide emissions. carbon in the world. CO2 emissions Total fossil carbon dioxide emissions. Members of the Group of 20 are responsible for 78% of emissions in the last decade. This report lists the economic and non-economic costs of climate change and highlights recent extreme weather events. In India's context, this reflects the death toll from massive floods that affected 5 million people along the Brahmaputra River, several cyclones in Odisha and the region's unprecedented heat wave this summer. Fry's report calls for special funding for loss and damage. "Despite unanimous calls from the G77 and China at the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow (UK), a new mechanism to finance the costs and damages, the proposal was rejected by developed influencers. countries. was."

"Ultimately, developing countries were forced into a three-year dialogue on how to finance costs and damages without decision-making power, under pressure from rich countries. "In fact, major issuing countries have refused to cooperate in accordance with the principles of international cooperation," the report said.

 

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