Infrastructure projects worth around ₹2.95 lakh crore in India are facing severe climate risks, according to a recently released report by a Delhi-based research organisation. “…India’s infrastructure push may be expanding climate exposure faster than risk-transfer mechanisms are adapting,” the report said, underlining that insurers are becoming increasingly concerned about infrastructure projects. It linked the finding to the fact that India has been recently ranked as the seventh most vulnerable in terms of climate impacts. Projects under the climate scanner have mostly been planned in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, with a cumulative investment of around ₹2.95 lakh crore. “These (vulnerable projects) range from Odisha’s Paradip port modernisation project, to ₹5,000 crore worth of port projects in Andhra Pradesh...,” the report says.

Source: The Telegraph January 27, 2026 01:23 UTC