Panaji: Even as a panel between the United Nations Government about Climate Change (IPCC) warns that global temperatures can exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius for the next twenty years, the state action plan for climate change (SAPCC) prepared for Goa has rang the alarm bell.
that the country’s temperature will rise more than 2 degrees Celsius in less than 15 years.
Goa has submitted its report to supervision of the Union Ministry of Environment, and after being approved, the state will need Rs 465 Crore for the next ten years to place mitigation measures in place.
Regardless of the possibility of rising sea level which leads to the transfer of coastal communities, the report has also warned of an increase in forest fires in Goa in the coming years.
“Forest Fire is a phenomenon that can intensify due to climate change,” said SAPCC report.
The implementation of SAPCC mitigation measures is expected to begin this year.
The mitigation strategy is set to review every three years given the scenario of the impact of dynamic climate change.
“Although quite a lot of documented evidence is not available on whether the incidence of forest fires has increased in Goa because of climate change or human activity, the trend describes the vulnerability of Goa forests for fire, and this can be annoyed due to climate change in 2040.” When SAPCC was being prepared, 92 forest fires were reported in 2016-17, recorded reports, compared with only two or four fires over the previous years.
The report for Goa found that the average temperature in the country was much higher (at 26.7 degrees Celsius) than the annual temperature of the national average, which is around 23.3 degrees Celsius.
Last month’s experienced floods seemed to be in line with the predictions made in SAPCC, which said that the events of very heavy and very heavy rainfall in the state had increased dramatically.
“The average annual rainfall in Goa has increased by 68% over the period 1901-2015.
With increasing rainfall, the variability of inter-annual rainfall in the country has also increased especially since the 1970s.
While the average annual rainfall in This country has increased, the day of moderate rainfall to light in Goa has declined during the period 1901-2015, while the events of rainfall very heavy and very heavy in the state have increased by more than 100%, “SAPCC.
said.
After the SAPCC was approved by the Ministry of Environmental Environment, mitigation measures for cave to climate change will begin with special cell settings at the State Secretariat to work exclusively in this direction.