India Climate Collaborative(ICC)

News:Recently,Philanthropy arms of top corporate groups have announced a partnership to launch an initiative called India climate Collaborative.

Facts:

About India Climate Collaborative(ICC):

• India Climate Collaborative(ICC) is a first-of-its kind India-focused collaboration launched by philanthropic arms of top Indian corporates to minimise the climate change impact.
• Aim: To work together to build a compelling, India-focused climate narrative and drive solutions that help people and nature thrive.

Need of this initiative:According to India Climate Collaborative(ICC),this initiative was launched as:

• India ranked highest in climate-triggered deaths in 2018 and is the fifth-most vulnerable country to the impacts of climate change. 
• Approximately 42% of India’s land area faced drought in April last year worsening the farm crisis. 
• Since 1980, nearly 60,000 suicides in India are attributed to warming temperatures accounting for almost 7% of the national upward trend in suicide rates. 
• There has been a 150% rise in air pollution-related deaths over the past 20 years and in 2017 alone,India saw 1.2 million deaths due to air pollution. 
• India suffered an economic loss of $37 billion due to climate change in 2018.Of this losses due to floods amounted to $2.8 billion.