# Chandra Bhushan Back to [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/People/People|Lomborg People]] · [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/BjornLomborg-x-profile|@BjornLomborg]] · Topic: [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] **Role:** Indian environmental policy analyst; founder-CEO of iFOREST (International Forum for Environment, Sustainability & Technology), New Delhi - Wrote the ET rebuttal to Lomborg's India column: "India can achieve Viksit Bharat and Net Zero without trade-offs" (Economic Times, Oct 19, 2026), plus a companion piece on iFOREST's site, "When you catch a false binary". - His main arguments: NITI Aayog's $8.1tn is cumulative investment to 2070, mostly private and mostly after 2050, so it is small relative to the future economy (≈0.8% of GDP in his framing ⚠️); and climate impacts are already costing India, citing the Lancet Countdown (247bn labour hours lost to heat in 2024, ≈$194bn ⚠️ as he reports it). - See [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on India, Growth and Net Zero (2026-10-30)|India, Growth and Net Zero]].