NABARD Launches National Climate Stack Innovation Challenge
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), in collaboration with the Gates Foundation and Dalberg Advisors, has launched the National Climate Stack Innovation Challenge to strengthen India’s climate resilience framework for rural regions. The initiative aims to build foundational technological layers of a National Climate Stack that will integrate diverse climate datasets and enable more effective climate intelligence for agriculture, rural finance, and public planning. India is increasingly facing climate-related risks such as heatwaves, floods, droughts, and cyclones, which pose serious threats to agricultural productivity and rural livelihoods. Although climate data availability has improved over the years, forecasting and risk management systems remain fragmented across different platforms. The new initiative aims to bridge these gaps by creating interoperable and accessible climate data systems. Objective of the National Climate Stack The National Cli...