Punjab, Sept. 21 -- President Droupadi Murmu called for stronger climate action and greater international cooperation on Sunday, linking the appeal to the rising frequency of natural disasters.
The context she is speaking into
The appeal lands in a month that has made the argument for her. India has sent humanitarian relief to Afghanistan for floods and earthquakes, and the domestic monsoon season has again produced displacement at a scale that is now treated as routine.
"Rising frequency" is the operative phrase. The policy problem with climate disasters is not any single event; it is that the interval between them has shortened faster than the capacity to recover between them.
Why a Presidential appeal matters differently
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