The context: For the past three decades, the discussion on climate change and global warming has taken center stage on the world’s platform. Ever since the 2015 Paris Agreement, limiting global temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average global temperature has been a central tenet of this discourse. The global average temperature is rapidly approaching the critical threshold.
Login to read moreFr Sacaria Joseph, SJ (CCU) teaches at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. He can be contacted at [email protected].