India, Sept. 10 -- Devendra Jhajharia understands climate change. Double Paralympic gold medallist and president of the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI), Jhajharia comes from Churu, Rajasthan. "When I was growing up, we craved for water," he said, "but now there are floods. Our roads were not built to withstand floods, nothing was built to withstand this."

Jhajharia was at IMT Ghaziabad last week at the second edition of the Climate 11 Summit around sport and sustainability. Jhajharia and PCI vice-president SP Sangwan signed Climate 11's Delhi Declaration, becoming the first sports federation to officially commit to including climate action as part of its governance, organisation and advocacy functions.

After the signing, the para ja...