GLOBAL WARNING

Repeated disasters exposed India's climate vulnerability even as global climate leadership grew, but weak governance, reactive planning and diluted enforcement ensured awareness did not translate into meaningful mitigation

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From 2005 to 2015, India’s engagement with climate change unfolded in a paradoxical arc.

It was a decade marked by devastating natural and man-made disasters that repeatedly exposed ecological fragility and administrative unpreparedness, even as the country slowly repositioned itself on the global climate stage from a reluctant participant to a cautious agenda-setter.