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Looking back, 2021 has been a year full of extreme weather events ranging from intense rains and flooding to extreme heat waves and drought spread all over the world, largely fueled by climate change. In fact, a study by the World Weather Attribution Initiative found that the extremity of events such as flooding were about five times more due to human-caused climate change. As far as global temperature rise, 2021 was more than 0.4 degrees celsius hotter than 2000 indicating continuous temperature rise over the last 150 years caused by global warming.

The 26th Conference of Parties (COP) international climate negotiations held in Glasgow in November 2021 was an important climate-related event this year. In the summit, India has pledged to power 50% of its electricity from renewables (currently it’s at 20%) and reduce carbon emissions by 45% by the year 2030 in addition to a few other longer term goals.

As of 2021, India is one of the top greenhouse gas emitters, third after China and the U.S. This makes it even more imperative for each of us to take immediate action.