Climate change: Why people are reluctant to act despite knowing the risks

Jeffrey Shaman of the Mailman School of Public Health in New York explains how climate change impacts our health and why it is so difficult to link a particular public health event to climate change

In Katowice, a Polish city whose economy has always rested on coal production, world leaders sat down last month to work on a framework on how to move forward with the 2015 Paris Agreement that aims to contain global warming below 2 degree Celsius.

The leaders who are a part of the 24th Conference of Parties (COP)--the highest decision-making body of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change--aimed to put in place measures to safeguard the health of our planet.

As many as 600 million people in India are at the risk of fallouts from