India, Nov. 14 -- Planet Earth is the only place we have to live, yet it is the place we are damaging on an alarming scale. Sooner than we can imagine, we will make it uninhabitable and may be forced to leave - the irony is, we have nowhere to go! We humans are the proverbial frog in simmering water, which boils to death rather than jump out because it cannot comprehend the slow rise in temperature.
The Global Carbon Budget 2025 report, released at COP30 in Belem, Brazil, yet again sounds the alarm, but no one is listening. Though, on one hand, it offers a glimmer of hope: India's carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise by only 1.4 per cent in 2025 - a slower pace than in previous years. On the other hand, it confirms that the world...