Srivastava, Sanjay Kumar
(2026)
The resilience dividend: Aligning adaptation, growth and equity in India.
Letters in Economic Research Updates, 2 (3).
pp. 1-6.
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| Abstract: |
India’s climate risk is compounding faster than the institutions built to manage it. The Belem Adaptation Indicators
agreed at COP30, alongside India’s Third National Communication, supply the reporting architecture for resilience. What
they do not supply is finance or sectoral coherence. This commentary examines the economics of that shortfall, placing
agriculture at the centre of the analysis: the sector employs close to half the workforce and absorbs the largest share
of climate-related loss. Its argument cuts against the grain of how budgets are written. Adaptation is not a welfare cost
to be contained but a capital investment with a measurable return, and the global evidence puts that return at between
two and ten rupees for every rupee committed. Treating it accordingly, by classifying adaptation as productive capital
expenditure, financing climate-smart agriculture at scale, and targeting the districts where climatic exposure and poverty coincide, would let India shape the Global Goal on Adaptation rather than merely report against it. |
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Journal Paper
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| Subjects: |
School of Natural and Engineering Sciences > Energy and Environment |
| Divisions: |
Schools > Natural Sciences and Engineering |
| Date Deposited: |
10 Sep 2026 06:16 |
| Last Modified: |
10 Sep 2026 06:16 |
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http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/3453 |
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