Best of BS Opinion: Towards a new compact, a warning to India, and more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day.

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Wednesday.
 

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just been released, and it makes for grim reading for the world in general and for India in particular. Since the fifth report, the consensus has firmed up, and the IPCC reports that the evidence is now “unequivocal” that anthropogenic — human-caused — warming is in effect, and that temperatures have already risen by 1.1 degrees Celsius since the industrial revolution. The report has specific warnings, however, for South Asia and India. The Indian Ocean is warming