INDIA\u2019S CLIMATE POLICIES<\/p>\n
The Indian government has said that over the long term, its climate policies will help prevent further damage to these monuments.<\/p>\n
Officials say half of India’s electricity now comes from renewable sources, and the world\u2019s most populous nation aims to be carbon-neutral by 2070.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, early warning systems have been installed at many sites.<\/p>\n
Vimlendu Jha, founder and executive director of environmental non-governmental organisation Swechha, noted that most monuments now have a weather station that signals extreme rainfall or high winds.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut warning alone is not enough, as a warning doesn’t do anything more than\u00a0inform\u00a0you,\u201d he added. \u201cThere needs to be adequate resources and funding for conservation and protection of these places.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year, India\u2019s main conservation body, the Archaeological Survey of India, received a 13 per cent budget increase, bringing its funding to US$138 million.<\/p>\n
But some experts argue this is still not sufficient. They have instead called for comprehensive risk assessments, regular inspections, and more funding for protective chemical treatments to keep these national treasures intact.<\/p>\n
Without sustained investment, they warn, India could lose irreplaceable pieces of its cultural identity \u2013 one crumbling stone at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIA\u2019S CLIMATE POLICIES The Indian government has said that over the long term, its climate policies will help…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11216,64,63,68,75,1209,160061,128],"class_list":["post-301055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-air-pollution","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-india","tag-red-fort","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}