Council of Scientific &Industrial Research (CSIR), as a part of the Earth Day Celebrations, installed and activated India’s biggest Climate Clock on the CSIR Headquarters Building in Rafi Marg, New Delhi today. The event signifies CSIR’s aim to spread awareness about climate change and its ill effects. Climate change is impacting societies globally but warming beyond 1.5°C will prove disastrous to the over 3 billion people who live in places highly vulnerable to climate change as reported by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Source : PIB World climate clock We are in a Climate Emergency, but there is still time to avert disaster if we take bold, immediate action at the speed and scale necessary – beyond what politicians have deemed politically possible. The next ~7 years is humanity’s best window to enact bold, transformational changes in our global economy to avoid raising global temperature above 1.5ºC, a point of no return that science tells us is likely to make the worst climate impacts inevitable. The project is centered on a simple tool: a clock that counts down the critical time window to reach zero emissions (our “Deadline”), while tracking our progress on key solution pathways (“Lifelines”). The Deadline and Lifeline on the Climate Clock tell us what we need to do, by when. They are arguably the most important numbers in the world. The real-time data of the climate clock can be accessed through the website https://climateclock.world/. The climate clock shows the time and how much time is left to reach the global temperature increase by 1.5°C on the basis of real-time data and if the temperature increases then its consequence will be irreversible. It was launched in New York in September 2020. Source : https://climateclock.world/