India, May 20 -- A seismic shift is underway in the battleground between environmental imperatives and economic realities, challenging the very core of conventional economic wisdom. Climate change, once viewed only through the lens of extreme temperature fluctuations and weather patterns, and dismissed as a "polar bear problem", has morphed into a full-blown crisis. It now reverberates through global economies, impacting everything from the prices we pay for goods and services, the heat to which we have to adjust (India is currently reeling under severe heat waves), the location of industries, and the weight of different voices in international forums. To emerge as a leader in this rapidly heating world, businesses and countries in the Gl...