"West Bengal ranks 60th in climate risk by 2050, and the modelling shows that damage to the environment in Bengal may increase by 81 per cent from 1990 to 2050."
Due to climate change, sea-level rise is increasing in coastal areas of India, An area of 2,318 km of the east and west, West Bengal with 323.07 km coastline, has lost 60.5 per cent by erosion, Jitendra Singh said in Lok Sabha.