Raising Risk Awareness

This fact sheet from the Climate and Development Knowledge Network describes the use of extreme event attribution to understand the role of climate change in weather events and its utility for long-term decision-making, featuring case studies from India.

• The World Weather Attribution group found that human-caused emissions had no measurable effect on the extreme one-day rainfall in Chennai on 1 December 2015, which was likely due to the masking effects of high levels of aerosol pollution in the area.
• Chennai's high vulnerability and exposure to floods are driven by land-use issues, including the loss of water bodies, the encroachment of drainage channels, streams, and rivers, decreased natural areas, and the uncontrolled growth of built-up areas.
• On 19 May 2016, India recorded an all-time high temperature of 51°C in Phalodi, Jodhpur district, Rajasthan. While annual mean temperatures across India are increasing, analysis did not find that human-induced climate change played a role in these specific individual heat waves, which differs from findings in other global regions.
• Attribution analyses provide quantitative data on how climate change alters the risk of extreme weather, which can assist the public and decision-makers in reducing vulnerability and prioritizing adaptation solutions.

APA

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (n.d.). Raising Risk Awareness. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/Infographic-with-case-studies.pdf

Chicago

Climate and Development Knowledge Network. Raising Risk Awareness. n.d. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/Infographic-with-case-studies.pdf.

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@techreport{climateanddevelopmentknowledgenetworkndraising, author = {{Climate and Development Knowledge Network}}, title = {{Raising Risk Awareness}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, url = {https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/Infographic-with-case-studies.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }