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Live MintNew Delhi: How do we feel the effects of climate change in our everyday lives? “People just get on with their lives, and that’s not nice", she says, putting the onus of this forgetfulness on the fact that in India, we tend to focus on “seasonal climate conversations"—like heat waves during summer, and floods during the monsoon. “It’s almost inevitable that we reach it by the end of this decade, or early next decade," says climate scientist Aditi Mukherji, who, like Pathak, has been a lead author on climate reports made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN’s climate science body. “The global change is affecting us more, the Indian Ocean region, which is tropical, and surrounded by ocean.” — Roxy Mathew Koll Show me the money The GCP’s estimates for 2024 find India to be among the highest emitters, with GHG emissions rising by over 4% from 2023. The deal was described as “the final nail in the coffin of 1.5 degrees Celsius" to Mint by Vaibhav Chaturvedi, senior fellow at the climate policy think tank Council on Energy, Environment and Water.