The Last Window | The Indian Express

The Last Window | The Indian Express

Written by Joyashree Roy |Updated: August 27, 2019 12:12:53 am

The writer is currently Bangabandhu Chair Professor, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

The Last Window

Like other countries, India too must act quickly and decisively on the IPCC report.

Every developing nation needs industrial growth, but given the severity of the threat we face in climate change, not factoring in the importance of preserving prudently chosen and managed forest cover would be ill-advised.

The 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global warming of 1.5°C delivered a clear message: Human activities have caused an approximately 0.87°C rise in global average temperature over pre-industrial times. The latest IPCC report on ‘Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse gas fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems’ takes the warning further and states that the land surface air temperature has risen by nearly twice the global average temperature, at about 1.3°C.