India, Sept. 19 -- Around the world, artists have been using their practice to highlight the effects of the climate emergency. Back in 1982, Hungarian-American conceptual artist Agnes Denes grew a crop of wheat in a 2.2 acre landfill in New York's overcrowded, industrialised, financial sector. As Wheatfield - A Confrontation reached harvest, she distributed the grain across 28 cities, with an exhibition titled The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger, and encouraged audiences to plant the seeds.

In 2014, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson transported giant blocks of ice from Greenland, and placed them outside Copenhagen's City Hall to allow city folks to engage with melting glaciers firsthand. He did it again in Paris ...