India, Oct. 28 -- The health impacts and risks of climate change accelerated in the decade since the Paris Agreement entered into force (2016-2025) indicating climate action failed to keep pace, the 10th indicator report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change has found.

The report added that high heat remained a concern for India in the decade 2016-25, with the Lancet report stating people in the country were exposed to over 2,600 hours per year during which heat posed a moderate or higher risk of heat stress during moderate outdoor physical activity. This figure is over 200 hours higher than the annual average in the 1990s.

"People in India also lost an estimated 64 hours of sleep annually, due to high night-time temperat...