NEW DELHI: (Jun 5) India’s cities are growing unbearable each summer, and it is the most vulnerable — the informal workers, the elderly, pregnant women, and infants — who suffer the worst of it, confined to concrete urban pockets where temperatures run several degrees higher than surrounding areas.
Among them, the informal workforce occupies a particularly vulnerable position, powering nearly half the nation’s economy and accounting for an estimated 45 to 50 per cent of India’s GDP, while remaining the most heat-exposed.
In an exclusive interview with PTI Videos on World Environment Day, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Inger Andersen noted that the situation is deeply concerning, “particularly for those who work outdoors doing physical labour, and for the most vulnerable like the elderly, pregnant women, infants, and those living with other illnesses.”
Source: PTI News
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