A lot of damage is already inevitable due to the emissions of heat-trapping GHGs by richer countries Spare a thought for poor India. India is home to 30 per cent of the world’s poorest, those living on less than $1.90 a day. Of the 1.3 billion Indians, 304 million do not have access to electricity; 92 million have no access to safe drinking water. And India is going to be hammered by climate change. The livelihood of 600 million Indians is threatened by the expected disruption of the southwest monsoon from July to September, which accounts for 70 per cent of India’s rainfall. India’s rivers depend on the health of thousands of Himalayan glaciers at risk of melting because...
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