New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Decarbonization is not just an economic agenda but a human responsibility, and not a trade-off with growth, Gentari India chief financial officer Sachin Bajaj said at the Mint Sustainability Summit in New Delhi, warning that recent cloudbursts and floods in Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab that have killed hundreds highlight the cost of inaction.

Bajaj said the disasters, which claimed hundreds of lives, swept away entire villages and left communities on the Vaishno Devi route in J&K scrambling to rebuild, underscore how fragile mountain ecosystems are becoming more vulnerable as global warming intensifies.

"These are not isolated events, nor abstract statistics. These are human lives and f...