From Mumbai floods 2005 to the recent 2015 floods in Chennai; heat waves taking lives in India in 2015 and 2016. The Bramhaputra is regularly inundating Assam and other regions of the Northeast. Each time disaster strikes, it causes unprecedented devastation to both ecology as well as human lives. The citizens are caught unawares not just in terms of the disaster alert signs but also to how to deal when disaster strikes.

With climate change impacting India, these climatic events are on the rise, along with few other implications that is not necessarily high on the minds as they are not defined as disasters, but slowly and indirectly affect the region socially, ecologically or economically.  Like Heat waves, depletion of water bodies, vector-borne diseases like Malaria & dengue, as also erosion of soil. The implications of these disasters are causing crop failures, clean access to water, not to mention loss of life and property.

However, whilst it is important to look at low carbon and energy strategy for mitigating or rather reducing human-caused impacts on climate change, there is still a huge gap in information dissemination particularly with regional and climatic data on the impacts on the vulnerable communities and women. Understanding these gaps will enable better preparedness and in building resilience to the impacts of climate change.