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Rising sea levels and flooding are the biggest threats of climate change. As temperature rises, ice melts and water level rises. This threatens to engulf coastal areas and cause mass displacement and loss of life. Initial predictions expected a sea‐level rise of over 59 cm by 2100, but current rates will likely exceed this by a wide margin. According to Pandve (2010), a sea‐level rise of 1 m would inundate up to 5763 km of India, as many cities lie only a few feet above sea level, making severe coastal floods.