Bihar, among India’s most climate-vulnerable states, lives through floods and droughts almost every year. Yet as the state heads into the assembly election, its deepening ecological crisis finds little space in the political discourse.

As Bihar approaches its two-phased assembly election on November 6 and 11, political debates centre on caste, crime, corruption, and leadership, despite studies spotlighting increasing climate risks.

A study by the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi and IIT Guwahati has found that 14 of India’s most climate-vulnerable districts are in Bihar .

In 2021, the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, a New Delhi-based think-tank, ranked Bihar as the fifth most vulnerable state in its report that mapped India’s climate vulnerability . According to th

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