The issue of climate change and the degradation in biodiversity have ceased to be a far off environmental concern but a part of everyday strain on the lives of those who are in the most immediate contact with the environment. The paper discusses the impacts of these two crises on the lives and sustainability of tribal peoples in general with specific focus on forest-reliant Adivasi people in India as compared to the larger global context. It combines recent evidence of the global evaluation about the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, the Living Planet Report of the World Wide Fund on Nature, the temperature record verified by the World Meteorological Organization, the effects estimation of the Intergovernmental panel on climate change, and reads that information alongside census and forestry data about tribal populations. The main point is that the tribal communities are in a problematic dual position. Keywords: Sustainability; India; Keywords: Climate change; biodiversity loss; tribal communities; Adivasi; forest livelihoods; traditional ecological knowledge
Sunny Devel (Sun,) studied this question.