Effects of climate change at boiling point for India’s poor

Some 270m people there live below the poverty line, many of them without running water or proper shelter, and thus unable to protect themselves from the heat, says Gulrez Shah Azhar.

A vendor sells marigold flower garlands at a wholesale flower market in Kolkata. Heat-related suffering will be particularly acute in India, where about 270m people live below the World Bank’s poverty line of €1.90 a day. Picture: AP Photo/Bikas Das