Climate action can help address crop loss in Central India
It is now beyond doubt that climate change is largely due to human activities. Therefore, any discussion on climate change includes human contribution to the same and its effects on life on earth.
Ecologists and environmentalists have come up with concepts and frameworks such as planetary boundaries, ecological footprint and biocapacity to quantify our contribution to climate change and the extent of damage due to it.
The more recent discourse also includes ‘climate action’, which is any positive actions by human society and individuals for adaptation to or mitigation of climate change or both.
At a village level, there has to be a different set of indicators to measure the impact of climate change as well as the outcomes of climate action.