Developing urban climate vulnerability index and assess the vulnerability of 5 selected cities using the vulnerability index
The project focused at developing an Urban Vulnerability Index that will help to identify and target climate vulnerable regions, sectors or populations, raise awareness, and contribute to a monitoring strategy and serve as a decision support system to the Government of India for devising adaptation and mitigation strategies for urban sector in India.
The objective of this project was to design framework, define sub-indices/indicators to assess urban climate vulnerability of the cities and bring forth the areas of adaptation which the cities should prioritize for improving its resilience and integrate it to their developmental initiatives.
The study has been carried out by reviewing the existing methodologies of Disaster Vulnerability Index Assessments, calculations, ranking & scoring along with the identification of the Indian cities based on the population, city location & ecosystem types (coastal region, hilly region & arid regions). The shortlisted cities are Delhi, Rajkot, Shillong, Bhopal, Vizag, Hyderabad, Jaipur& Bhubaneshwar. List of Indicators and sub-indicators has been developed considering the various aspects of climate change and urban climate vulnerability towards demography and critical infrastructure and governance at city level. Expert Meetings and Consultation were conducted to discuss and finalize ranking / scoring methodology, followed by Pilot survey and vulnerability assessment of cities.
Across 8 Universities, altogether 1000 students, 75 research scholars and nearly 60 faculty members participated in the symposia. A final event was held on 29th May 2018 at American Centre, New Delhi. This event saw participation of University winners from each of the university campuses where the programme was conducted initially. The University winners from Kurukshetra University and Banaras Hindu University were jointly awarded the winners of the inter-university debate competition.
Supported By:Ministry of Environment,Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Govt. of India