An Expert’s Warning

byShyamala M Iyer

Sunita Narain is the director-general of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), director of the Society for Environmental Communications and also editor of Down to Earth magazine. She is an environmentalist and expert on climate change issues. She also plays an active role in policy formulation on issues of environment and development in India and globally. SHYAMALA M IYER converses with the 2005 winner of the Stockholm Water Prize.

(Image Source: downtoearth.org.in) There is so much discussion on climate change. What exactly does it mean? In 1992, climate change was officially defined by the United Nations as a ‘change of climate’ due to human activities (such as the burning of fossil fuels like coal or petroleum that res