Climate

India's rush to seal trade deals promises an export surge, but its cargo gateways look too fragile to face a future of climate risks. Let's fix Indian shipment infrastructure before rising sea levels, cyclones and worse get in the way.

Water scarcity is connected to climate and environmental degradation. Along with the entire world India too is witnessing quick deterioration of environment.

Cold snaps may delight climate-change deniers, but they don't come cheap. From billion-dollar winter storms to a $20 trillion global cleanup bill, extreme weather—hot or cold—is draining economies fast. Snowballs may melt away but the costs remain.

India doesn't face a climate trade-off. Resilience must advance alongside a transition to a low-carbon economy. The latest Economic Survey's framing, however, seems to put adaptation ahead of mitigation.

India has an estimate of what it'll cost to meet its climate challenge, but budgets so far have shown little urgency to allot the funds needed. Given the economic perils posed by climate change, we must close the gap between green rhetoric and budget outlays.

Tariffs matter, but the harder negotiations India must pursue are within. A warning from Davos by Harvard's Gita Gopinath and a grim episode of fatalities in Indore remind us how pollution has become a pressing health menace with serious economic consequences. Time to get into mission mode.

China's construction pause looks like bad news for economic growth, but it can yield a climate dividend. As cement demand trails off after a decades-long boom, emissions from this sector are stalling. With a tech-led clean-up proving difficult, climate warriors can hope we're past peak cement.

The world's biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising