With a Special Reference to its stand on Climate Change in International Forums.

In the last couple of decades, there have been extensive debates over the existence of global warming, today, the debate is largely over and a consensus has emerged in the global scientific community that Global Climate Change is occurring and that it will have a dramatic and adverse impact on the planet earth’s ecosystem.

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Factors Responsible for Global Warming:

The cumulative onus for such stupendous and sharp increase in the emission of the greenhouse gases is singly borne by humans alone, for it is us, humans, who have contributed towards the menace only to uphold our selfish wants and desires. Discussing on the major ways in which humans have aggravated the issue it can be said that the major sources to be blamed for such high increase in the greenhouse gas emissions include the power sector, industry, and the transport sector respectively.
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India has been ranked as the sixth most vulnerable country in the world in terms of facing extreme weather events, with Haiti, Zimbabwe, Fiji, Sri Lanka and Vietnam taking the top five positions in a list of nations facing climate risk by the Berlin-based NGO Germanwatch through its Global Climate Risk Index (CRI). CRI is based on an analysis of the number of deaths (due to climatic conditions) per 100,000 inhabitants, and the extent of financial losses per unit of GDP of countries. Economic and population data from IMF were taken into account while arriving at the rankings. The report noted that in 2016, India lost the maximum number of lives (2,119) and over $21 billion worth of property to weather-related events while the USA suffered the maximum financial loss (over $47billion).
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