Rising heat stress has incurred losses upto $3.75 billion dollars for farmers in India according to the Climate Transparency Report 2022
In 2021, USD 159 billion, or 5.4% of India;s GDP was estimated as potential income loss (including service industry, manufacturing, agriculture, and construction) from labour capacity reduction due to extreme heat .
The lack of adequate ‘cold chains’ of refrigerated warehousing and transport causes two million vaccine preventable deaths each year, and the waste of 200 million tonnes of food.