{"id":252100,"date":"2024-06-04T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-climate-challenges-that-indias-next-government-will-face\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T15:18:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T15:18:46","slug":"the-climate-challenges-that-indias-next-government-will-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-climate-challenges-that-indias-next-government-will-face\/","title":{"rendered":"The Climate Challenges That India\u2019s Next Government Will Face"},"content":{"rendered":"
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India, the world\u2019s most populous country, is also among the most vulnerable to climate hazards. That\u2019s not only because of the heat and floods that global warming has exacerbated, but also because so many of the country\u2019s 1.4 billion people are vulnerable to begin with. Most people are poor, by global standards, and they have no safety net.<\/p>\n

Early election results Tuesday signaled that the party led by Narendra Modi, the two-term Hindu nationalist Indian prime minister, is poised to win the largest number of seats in the Indian Parliament but may have to join with smaller parties to form a coalition government.<\/p>\n

That government will face major challenges brought on by climate change.<\/p>\n