‘Climate change questions’ least asked in Parliament, 0.3% queries

New Delhi, July 22 (UNI) As many as 895 questions related to climate change were raised by 1,019 Members of Parliament, forming only 0.3 percent of the total queries asked in the House in 20 years, revealed a recent study.
India is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change “ranked 29 out of 191 countries” due to its geographic size, climatic conditions, and large population, especially of vulnerable groups, as per the paper “Climate change: The missing discourse in the Indian Parliament”, prepared by Seema Mundoli, Zubin Jacob, Ranjini Murali, and Harini Nagendra in association with the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, and The Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, US.