Heatwave Crisis Hits India: Vulnerable Communities, Economy Suffers
Millions of lives and economy are at existential risk due escalating heatwaves in India and across the world. There has been a dramatic increase in the loss of working hours by 50 per cent due to heatwaves in India. What is the primary reason for the deteriorating situation? How can economies be made climate risk-proof?
Climate change is this century’s biggest challenge that mankind is faced with as it lacks a concerted response against it. Even the international bodies such as the United Nations have warned that the world will break all records of global warming if we continue with the current response to climate change. It is no more a distant threat but an alarming reality that is killing economies, businesses and people at an unprecedented rate. Every weather and season has started ...