That climate change is a huge concern and has a cascading effect on businesses and the economy are clear. A collective and multi-pronged effort is required from individuals, corporates and countries to solve the climate crisis.
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Last year, specifically, the world experienced telling signs of a notable shift in weather patterns and a dramatic rise in natural calamities: Catastrophic storms, torrential rainfall and relentless heat waves. This took a toll on lives, livelihoods and economies. The general degradation of air, soil, oceans, ecology and forests has cast an urgent need for a swift course correction towards sustainable living.
The problem is daunting, agrees Zerodha’s CTO Kailash Nadh, who envisioned and helped set up the Zerodha-sponsored Rainmatter Foundation as a philanthropic initiative for climate action. “There is no technology to reverse climate change, and one is forced to have a pessimistic outlook, but we have to try,” he adds.
(This story appears in the 10 March, 2023 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)