Odisha’s agricultural and allied sectors, vital to the state’s economy, face mounting threats from climate change. These sectors are increasingly exposed and are vulnerable to climate extremes, posing significant risks to livelihoods and food security. This scoping report series aims to identify priority districts for targeted interventions to enhance resilience and sustainability in Odisha’s agriculture and allied sectors. The analysis integrates three key components: Resource Use Profiling (RUP), Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Inventory, and Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) to assess the nature, extent, and intensity of impacts on the sector. By triangulating findings from these components, the study identifies districts with inefficient resource use, high GHG emissions, and severe climate risks to guide the formulation of District-Level Climate
Action Plans and the adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices. The report series is divided into three parts.
Part 1 explores RUP and the GHG emissions inventory, Part 2 focuses on the CRA, and the Scoping Study combines insights from Parts 1 and 2 to highlight priority districts for CSA interventions to maximise climate resilience and benefits. This Climate Risk Assessment report, Part 2 in the scoping study report series, identifies priority districts for targeted interventions to build resilience against three major climate hazards: droughts, floods, and heatwaves. Tropical cyclone risk was incorporated at a later stage of this assessment, as cyclones have been frequently occurring event impacting Odisha. Separate risk assessments were conducted for three cyclone categories based on wind speed: 60–90 km/h, 90–120 km/h, and 120 km/h and above.
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