Shimla, Sept. 17 -- Himachal Pradesh's Department of Environment and Climate Change has stressed the urgent need for climate-resilient development and infrastructure planning, warning that the Himalayan state faces growing risks from extreme rainfall, flash floods, landslides, and cloudburst events due to climate change and human intervention.

The warning is based on analysis of data, maintained over the decades and based on research, by the department's Climate Change Centre.

"Average temperature in the Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh has risen by 0.9 degrees Celsius," Senior environmental scientist Dr Suresh Kumar Atri, who has been associated with the analysis, told ANI.

He said scientists have projected that this warming trend...