JAMMU: Reports said that 9 major cities in India will witness intensifying heat stress even if 2015 Paris climate targets are reached and could experience extremely hot days every year in the future, a new study has said.
The study, published on Monday in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at 44 cities across the world. Kolkata, Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Surat, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad were selected from India as they are the largest metropolitan areas and will continue to be this century.
The Paris Agreement seeks to limit the usage of fossil fuels in the world in the second half of the century, limiting the rise in average world temperatures to “well below” 2.0 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above preindustrial times.(Agencies)
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