Responding to climate change

India needs institutions to address concerns

Given the rapid changes in climate and the inability of adaptation strategies to keep pace with them, it seems imperative to devise exclusively India-focused institutions to monitor these developments, forewarn about their ramifications, and moot pre-emptive remedial actions. At present, the country relies largely on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other foreign agencies for these tasks. Though the IPCC’s reports are usually well-researched, and often seek to offer region- and country-specific perspectives as well, yet they do not fully serve the needs of a country like India, which has highly diverse ecosystems. Putting in place