Blue Alert – Climate Migrants in South Asia: Estimates and Solutions is a paper authored by Dr Sudhir Chella Rajan, professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras, and a climate expert. She estimates the number of people who could be displaced from their homes as a result of climate change at 125 million in India and Bangladesh alone.
Blue Alert warns that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow under the business-as-usual scenario as projected, leading to global temperature rise by 4-5°C , the South Asian region could face a wave of migrants displaced by the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise and drought associated with shrinking water supplies and monsoon variability. Dr. Chella Rajan recommended that “India should seek policy options that are proactive in terms of developing international strategies to reduce the risk of destructive climate change. We cannot wait for the inevitable to happen and hope to adapt to it.”
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