5 climate change challenges India needs to wake up to

In the lead up to the anniversary of the signing the Paris Climate Agreement we need to re-assess climate change–induced national risks.

On the 46th Earth Day, April 22, 2016, at the UN Secretariat in New York, in a record pact, several nations committed to slowing down the emission of greenhouse gases in order to check global temperatures rising well below two degrees Celsius.

World leaders made this commitment to leave behind a cleaner and cooler world in the presence of 197 children — representative of future generations who stand to inherit the earth.

India ratified this accord on the birth anniversary of the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, in 2016 ahead of the Marrakech Climate Summit. We may have committed to more renewable energy, but as a developing nation hungry for power, it’s hard to eschew coal, as witnessed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurating new units of the Koradi Thermal Power Station in Maharashtra this Good Friday. Read more…