India, April 25 -- Present policies mostly paper tigers; India need greater ministerial integration to counter climate impacts, say experts

Two reports, both released on April 23, have exposed the gross inaction of developed countries in countering climatic impacts globally including in Asia, which has been deemed as the world's 'disaster capital' by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

The report on the response by Group of Seven (G7) countries - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States - to climate change shows that these governments currently stand much off track to achieve required emission cuts by 2030. That is the requirement to keep the rise in global temperature within the 1.5degC t...