By 2020, India is set to become the youngest country in the world with 64 percent of its population in the working age group, and average age of 29 years. This will make youth one of the biggest constituencies in India. It will be youth who will be mostly impacted by the policies and politics too. Climate change and its emergent repercussions will have consequences for most areas of life and work of the present and future generations. India with its population of 1.2 billion will also be adversely affected and different vulnerabilities exacerbated.

India with its huge coastline and delicate mountain ecology in the north, changing monsoons- a majority of its population of 1.2 billion will risk lives, livelihoods and a general level of security with extreme weather event becoming a regular phenomena leading to severe loss and damage.

In 2014, China was responsible for some 28 percent of the worlds carbon emissions, followed by the United States (4 percent), the European Union (10 percent) and India (7 percent), according to the Global Carbon Project. India is the worlds third-largest single-country emitter.

India puts out around 1.7 metric tons of carbon emissions per capita, compared with 6.2 for China and 17.6 for the United States, according to the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.

The conditions are worse for neighbouring countries and other countries in that region,

In China alone, 1.2 million people are dying each year as a result of air pollution. Beijing residents call it ' air-pocalypse' .

In Bangladesh, even a slight increase in sea level could put the country under water. The Maldives faces a similar fate.

Indeed, even Singapore, which prides itself as a city in a garden, is often choked by severe haze from fires caused by illegal burning of forests in neighbouring Indonesia.

Indias environmental woes are, of course, dire and seem to get worse each year.

Recently, when President Obama arrived in India last January for talks. A bit of rain came and cleared the air. Even so, the air quality index hovered around 200 when the president arrived at the viewing stand to watch India's Republic Day Parade as the cheif guest of India's 66th Republic Day. Thats approaching whats deemed a very unhealthy level of the microscopic 2.5 particulate matter, which causes respiratory disease and other ailments.

The Americans were prepared. Delhi police had kept traffic to a minimum around the parade route, and the Embassy ordered 1,800 Swedish air purifiers in the weeks preceding the American delegations arrival. (Its not clear whether any of those air filters actually made it into Obamas special bullet-proof parade enclosure, as the Indian media had reported.)

Bloomberg Media published a story titled "Mr. President, Worlds Worst Air is Taking 6 Hours Off Your Life" which argued that Delhis toxic air was so harmful that it could shorten the presidents longevity.

The air in New Delhi is the worst in the world, according to a World Health Organization report last year. Environmentalists say that efforts to control it – such as a switch to clean-burning natural gas for auto rickshaws – have made little long-term impact as the city has sprawled, eight coal-fired power plants chugged out more power and more than 7 million cars clogged the roads.

The situation is hardly better in in other parts of the country. Earlier this year, a report by a Yale University research team showed that India ranked 174th of 178 countries in air quality, somewhere close to China and Pakistan.

Regarding Indo-U.S talks on Environmental issues, environmentalists expressed disappointment that the agreement between the two countries did not specifically target carbon emissions, especially as India doubles its coal production to try to meet unrelenting power needs. India is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind the United States and China.

There was Modis short response to a reporters question about whether he felt pressured to agree to a China-style climate deal with the United States.

" The sad thing for India is that while in rejecting a China-type deal, Modi said, 'There is no pressure on us from any country or any person, but there is pressure when we think about the future generations and what kind of world we want to give them,' "

In attempting to provide adequate energy, if India goes with coal to the extent in current plans, Modi will be leaving future generations in India — already one of the hottest populous countries — to suffer under oppressive warming so severe that, according to some projections, mammals (and that includes people) will not be able to survive outdoors.