India, Feb. 27 -- At sunrise in a village in Sundargarh along the highway in eastern India's Odisha, 32-year-old Sushila walks half a kilometre to fetch water. She uses her sari to shield her face from the coal dust that settles on her skin and in her lungs as coal-laden Tata Hyva trucks drive past. These trucks ply day and night, transporting coal dispatched for thermal power from the big open-cast coal mine five kilometres from Sushila's village. Her daily walk illustrates how far removed women like Sushila are from the climate negotiations that affect them; that women and marginalised communities in India's coal regions are already living the future the world is trying to avoid. Their everyday struggles are part of the realities of coa...