Climate change is killing more Indians than ever before. A Lancet report recorded an eight-fold spike in heat-wave-related deaths over 10
years to 2,422 in 2015. About 130,000 cases of dengue were reported in 2016 from 20,000 in 2010. Climate change affects India more than
most countries; a temperature rise of 1°C would result in a 1.33 percentage point drop in the Indian per capita output, according to a
study by the International Monetary Fund. That’s higher than the global average for emerging economies of 0.9 percentage point.
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