Simply put: Mundoli et al. (2022)
This post is based on the paper " Climate change: the missing discourse in the Indian Parliament " by Seema Mundoli and others, in Environmental Research: Climate . The authors studied Parliamentary Questions (PQs) related to climate change raised in the Lok Sabha between 1999-2019. The study is designed to answer four critical questions related to PQs on climate change. First, the authors ask, How often are PQs raised about climate change? The answer is only about 0.3% of the time. Second, the authors ask, Are vulnerable constituency interests being represented in the Parliament? The answer, sadly, is No ("..there was no evidence for climate vulnerability or gender to have any relationship with the number of PQs asked"). To me, this suggests that our Parliamentarians have not yet appreciated differential vulnerability to climate change, and that there is much scope for granularity in their understanding of climate change. Third, the authors ask, What kind of ques