Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan Tuesday said India did not wait for any report to realise that climate change posed a threat and made all efforts to combat global warming.
He was reacting to a report released Monday by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) which stated that India could witness deadly heatwaves if the planet's temperature goes up by two degrees Celsius.
Reacting to the findings of the report, Harsh Vardhan said, "We have not been waiting for a report to take action against climate change. We are already putting all our efforts to ensure that the global temperature does not further increase."
The IPCC report said,"At +1.5C, twice as many mega cities as present such as Lagos in Nigeria and Shanghai in China are likely to become heat stressed, potentially exposing more than 350 million more people to deadly heat stress by 2050."
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