This research work is a product of the research collaboration between the Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy Research, University of Haifa (HMS), Israel, and the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, with the aim of providing policy recommendations to the respective governments of India. Israel. The issue of climate change continues to turn on the light. Although there is no consensus in the scientific community about the rate at which climate change is actually occurring, there is no doubt that climate change is actually occurring as we speak. Currently, climate change is limited to the field of climatology/meteorology only, but it has implications in many other processes, some natural and some man-made. As the Earth warms due to climate change, it…