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Aug 16, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
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2019 recorded four of the world’s hottest & eight of the wettest 15 places across the globe, in India.

600 million at risk, no national study conducted but somehow minister @PrakashJavdekar knows there has been no impact of #ClimateCrisis

bit.ly/2YVpLJg Under Paris Agreement, India was to create an additional ‘carbon sink’ of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through additional forest, tree cover by 2030.

India’s Biennial Update indicates the opposite:

68,215 gigatonnes in 2014 vs 200,036 in 2010