India is a signatory to all the major climate treaties across the globe including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (SDGs being absolutely bold and ambitious commitments to finish). A landmark study released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals that India is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to global warming and will face the brunt of climate change devastation in the coming years. Their Special report on 1.5°C investigates the impacts of increase in global average temperature by 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in the context of strengthening global response to the threat of climate change and sustainable development. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will not leave us safe. India, as well as the rest of the world will continue to experience increasing negative impact as the temperature rises, although it would be much lesser than the calamitous effects of a 2°C warmer planet. India is already losing about 1.5 per cent of its GDP every year due to climate change-related risks. This builds a stronger case for India to further invest on adaptation and build resilient infrastructure, medical facilities and undertake climate smart agriculture. Recently, the Indian government has pledged INR 480 crores towards setting up of a secretariat “Coalition for Disaster Risk Resilient Infrastructure” on the lines of International Solar Alliance and has already received support from the UN, World Bank and many developed economies which will support building standards, frameworks, R&D etc. to build resilient infrastructure. Industry will have to contribute by beginning to produce materials which can help build disaster resilient infrastructure as well as design and construct using these.