❖ Global reports indicate that India will lose up to 5% of its Gross Domestic Product by 2030 to rising temperatures.

❖ Tamil Nadu with its warm tropical weather, is projected to be severely impacted by heat.

❖ The State Planning Commission brought a report, ‘Beating the Heat-Tamil Nadu Heat Mitigation Strategy’.

❖ The temperature range at which humans can thrive is 25 degrees Celsius to 30 degrees Celsius, with 60% humidity.

❖ However, in many parts of Tamil Nadu, this threshold is regularly breached.

❖ At present, nearly 74% of the State’s population is exposed to air temperature of over 35°C.

❖ The Tamil Nadu State Disaster Management Authority prepared the Heat Wave Action Plan in 2019, and in 2023.