From fatal heatwaves and cruel droughts to devastating floods and fast-depleting water tables, climate change is the greatest disruptor of our time - and it can no longer be ignored. In this book, author Mridula Ramesh draws on her extensive practical and investing experience, to explore myriad facets of this raging issue: why women are peculiarly affected by a warming climate; how climate change poses a security threat to the Indian state; why just focussing on green sources of power is an incomplete solution for India; how managing waste can create hundreds of thousands of urban jobs and how households can cope in a 'Day Zero' water situation.

In doing so, she shows how climate warriors, from the cotton fields of Punjab and thriving eco start-ups in Bengaluru, to a forest guardian in Assam and the johads of Rajasthan, have employed ingenuity and initiative to adapt to the changing conditions - and sometimes reverse their shattering effects.

Mridula Ramesh is the founder of the Sundaram Climate Institute which focuses on waste and water solutions and education. She is an active angel investor in cleantech start-ups with a portfolio of over a dozen start-ups. A graduate with distinction from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management Mridula worked at McKinsey in Silicon Valley before returning to India. Leveraging her two decades of management experience she teaches a postgraduate class on climate change at the Great Lakes Institute of Management.

The climate solution; A book by Mridula Ramesh