Business Times: Climate change is threatening to derail Indias fast-growing economy, a top aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week. Erratic monsoon rain patterns have left crops parched, jeopardizing Indias nearly $370 billion agricultural sector and hundreds of millions of jobs.
The No. 1 risk we face is global climate change, because we are still very dependent on the monsoon, Jayant Sinha, the countrys junior finance minister and a Harvard Business School graduate, told Bloomberg News. The...