The Green Shift In Automotive And Surface Transport

This article aims to create awareness of the serious effect of climate change and a request to participate in the Green Revolution.

The global mean temperature has risen by 1°C over the past 120 years, mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. Over the next 20 years, the global average temperature will rise by 0.2 - 0.4°C per decade. Other key environmental problems include increasing air, water, and marine pollution, and elevated levels of particulate matter represent a health hazard, particularly in cities in developing and emerging countries. In 2010, NASA declared that the world's largest climate change pollution contributor was automobiles.

Effect of Climate Change in India

Over the last two decades, droughts and floods have become increasingly frequent across India. In just the last 15 years, India's annual average number of drought-affected districts has increased 13-fold, affecting 140 million people annually.

At the same time, flood events have risen fourfold, with 98 million Indians affected yearly. The effects of climate change are already being felt around the globe, and India ranks seventh on the list of countries expected to be the most affected by global warming.

It faced eight tropical cyclones in 2019, with six classified as…