The climate emergency is real for India

With a rise in earth's temperature inevitable now, India needs to empower and make every district climate-change ready in order to mitigate its impact on the poorest populations

The climate has changed forever and will remain so for centuries, if not a few thousand years into the future. Human-caused carbon dioxide emissions are responsible for it, and our current mitigation strategies are insufficient to stop it from changing further. The global mean temperature will cross the 1.5°C limit in the current decade or next, and the 2°C mark during 2040–2060. This is the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a nutshell.

Let us first look at some of the irreversible climate change and extreme weather events that have already set in and are