ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the response of the young participants towards climate change in their day-to-day life. India with its 1.2 billion people represents 17.5 per cent of the world's population and thus is an important global player in questions of anthropogenic impact on global climate change. According to the 4th and 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the thinning of the Himalayan Glaciers can likely be attributed to global warming due to increase in anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases since the 1960s. In a qualitative study conducted in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, it has been investigated how young people respond to local climatic changes in their day-to-day life, while living in a highly sensitive ecosystem the Himalayas. The difficulty to measure climate risk perception by percentage is expressed in various findings from different surveys. Research on local knowledge in the western Himalayas of India is connected to traditional sources of knowledge like the weather calendar.
