Climate change is a decades-old word which is an important topic from the 1980’s and still its significance is not considered. India is 3rd world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind China and US. Yes...! we are third, and we also signed the 2015 Paris agreement (to reduce and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions). We still aren’t talking about Climate change impacts on our weather systems. Unusual rains, heatwaves, changing river flows, collapsing ecological dynamics, depleting natural resources, and so on. The world is trying to get rid of fossil fuel habits, but we are still relying on it. The cooperation that we are giving is a stampede to automobile showrooms when the Government announces the ban of selling the BS4 vehicles to bring down the pollution. We knew that the 2015 flood in Chennai was the effect of climate change due to the rise in carbon emission which lead to extreme rainfall. The 21st century is witnessing CO2 content in the atmosphere going up to 6 to 10 parts per 10,000, which means we are injecting 30 billion tonnes of CO2 every year to our atmosphere. In 2019, Prime Minister Modi while addressing the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York said that “The respect for nature, the judicious use of resources, reducing our needs and living within our means have all been important aspects of both our traditions and present-day efforts. ‘Need, not greed’ has been our guiding principle”. Why is this important? In India the climate change is mostly human-induced which started with the genesis of Industrial revolution. The time when we started acceleration towards the industries, we were devoid of any EPA and possible treatment facilities like western countries. The drastic effects caused an alarming situation for the country causing the Government to take climate change as a serious topic. Wait, have you read the manifestos (Congress will deliver & Determined India and Empowered India) of the two largest political parties of India (INC & BJP) where they talked about climate change? According to Forbes, INC-4.5% and BJP-0.6% of the manifestos have pertained to climate issues which pretty much shows that it barely covers in Indian political agenda. More than 2 million deaths a year in India are due to pollution than the other diseases and still we can’t find PM (Particulate Matter) masks in stores. We are running out of groundwater, sea level is rising, deadly heatwaves are striking, cyclone disturbances, less agricultural yields, endangered list of species are going up, and so on. Hence, we are not focusing enough on sustainable development towards climate change. The solution for preventing further damage to the atmosphere would be the immediate adoption of energy independence using clean renewable sources of energy. Apart from climate politics and industrial revolutions we need to focus rather on renewable energies than fossil fuels. India’s economy is characterized as a developing market economy. Also, we are striving to overcome renewable resources with our economy. As of 31st March 2020, 35.86% of India's electricity generation is from renewable sources. We can use the salt ranges of Gujarat, hot and cold deserts, coastal areas for power production from solar, wind and hydroelectric. In India, the price of monocrystalline 200-300Wh solar panels with 17% efficiency costs Rs. 47, is not affordable to all peoples although subsidy is being provided to promote solar energy, still it is costly to afford. Methane (CH4) is not an alternative source of energy for India, the current production of coal bed methane is about 2999.7 Million Metric Standard Cubic Meters which can remain in the atmosphere for 12 years and the emission warms the planet. The awareness of climate change is lesser and the impact on humans is not yet considered. Climate change is inevitable, as it is caused by nature as well as anthropogenic activities. The anthropogenic activities cause non-linear behaviours in our Earth’s system, while the natural activities like continental drift, plate tectonics, volcanic activities, ocean currents, etc., also contribute to climate change. The climate change is not new for this planet Earth, Ice core from Antarctica and Greenland recorded the shifts in climatic events in the past. Countries are racing their research observatories in the continent of science (Antarctica) to study the thick ice sheets encompassing the paleo event records to study climate science. Research on past events helps to predict the changes of Earth as past is the key to the future. Former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam called upon the people to contribute a role to fight the climate change by taking up activities to protect nature. He noted “Every Indian must take an oath that he will plant and nurture at least one tree. One fully grown tree absorbs 20Kg of carbon-di-oxide and emits 14Kg of oxygen...” and that this can save our mother earth. The answer to the question “IS INDIA IGNORING THE CLIMATE CHANGE?” is to be asked to ourselves, we are this generation, that has been a spectator of devastating evidences and events of climate change. So, the question has to start with ourselves as WE ARE THE SOLUTION. Just a political rule cannot bring wonders if the individual refuses to participate. In what way are we as an individual giving back to the health of our planet, what shift in our practices are we making and taking up in order to combat climate change. How serious are we as individual about the effects it has on our ecology? In fact, for a solid political agenda to be taken up in this case, every individual should start thinking about whether we are fighting towards climate change effectively. © Sabari Nathan, C. & ECOR Foundation