Disaster display: the Assam floods reveal India’s outdated apparatus of climate finance
Climate risk varies by river basins, but governance and finance are sliced up by administrative boundaries. This mismatch is smaller than the one in how funds are devolved to states. For anticipatory funding, here’s how Indian policy must evolve.
The suffering reveals a story of policy mismatches.
This tragedy needs to be understood against Assam’s wider climate risk landscape. The Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment of 2025 places the state fifth among India’s 28 states overall, with t... [5455 chars]
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