India has been a partner country of the project since 2018. The project works there in close cooperation with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), which hosted the workshop. The event focused on showcasing longstanding work in monsoon and extreme weather event forecasting, agriculture modelling and human migration. With respect to the monsoon, project researcher Professor Elena Survovyatkina presented her important work on improving monsoon forecasting timeliness and reliability for parts of India. This was presented in the context of work with local collaborators on early warning around extreme weather. Project researchers Dr Stephanie Gleixner and Dr Roopam Shukla presented work on real-time yield information for crop insurance, as well the social factors that impact upon agricultural production in a changing climate. Project collaborators further extended on this by presenting their work on modelling and mapping agricultural risks in a changing climate, as well as how to build capacity - including amongst affected farmers - in this context. Project researcher Himani Upadhyay presented her work on mobility and immobility pressures arising with climate change in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. With TERI researcher Santosh Muriki, she also showcased a major report prepared within the B-EPICC project in collaboration with TERI, which links modelling of climatic change in Uttarakhand with human mobility. The event was wrapped up with an important discussion hightlighting the challenges and opportunities in communicating climate science in a way that is impactful. Project staff Dr Thomas Nocke and Mechthild Becker highlighted how the B-EPICC project has sought to build climate capacities, including through accessible climate visualisation via the Climate Impacts Online tool. This was rounded off with a presentation by Climate Trends' Aarti Khosla, who focused on communicating climate science in the media.
