Decarbonization not a trade-off with growth: Gentari

Decarbonization is not just an economic agenda but a human responsibility, and not a trade-off with growth, Gentari India chief financial officer Sachin Bajaj said at the Mint Sustainability Summit in New Delhi, warning that recent cloud-bursts and floods in Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab that have killed hundreds highlight the cost of inaction.

- Krishna Yadav

Bajaj said the disasters, which claimed hundreds of lives, swept away entire villages and left communities on the Vaishno Devi route in J&K scrambling to rebuild, underscore how fragile mountain ecosystems are becoming more vulnerable as global warming intensifies.

"These are not isolated events, nor abstract statistics. These are human lives and futures uprooted in an instant," Bajaj said. "They remind us that decarbonization is not only an economic imperative, it is, above all, a human responsibility."