Climate Impacts India

A survey of 10,751 adults in India conducted between December 2024 and February 2025 reveals that a majority of the population has personally experienced extreme weather events, such as severe heat waves (71%) and agricultural pests (60%), within the past year. These experiences correlate with high levels of worry regarding local impacts, particularly species extinction (61%) and agricultural pests (62%). While most respondents believe global warming significantly affects these events, 32% of the population reported they had never heard of global warming.

• A majority of Indians have personally experienced multiple extreme weather events or related impacts in the 12 months prior to the survey, most notably severe heat waves (71%), agricultural pests and diseases (60%), power outages (59%), water pollution (53%), droughts and water shortages (52%), and severe air pollution (52%).
• Over half of the surveyed population expressed being "very worried" about several local climate-related risks, including agricultural pests and diseases (62%), extinctions of plant and animal species (61%), droughts and water shortages (58%), severe heat waves (56%), water pollution (55%), severe air pollution (54%), and famines and food shortages (51%).
• Most respondents believe global warming is significantly affecting various extreme weather events in India, with the highest percentages for plant and animal extinctions (64%), severe heat waves (62%), agricultural pests and diseases (62%), and droughts and water shortages (60%).
• Despite the prevalence of these events, 32% of people in India have never heard of global warming.

APA

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (2025). Climate Impacts India. https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-impacts-india/

Chicago

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Climate Impacts India. 2025. https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-impacts-india/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{yaleprogramonclimatechangecommunication2025climate, author = {{Yale Program on Climate Change Communication}}, title = {{Climate Impacts India}}, institution = {Yale Program on Climate Change Communication}, year = {2025}, month = may, url = {https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-impacts-india/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }