According to Mr. Chandra Bhushan, two major points that we should not ignore are: one, development gains are washed away by climate change; and two, there needs urgent need to contain emissions so that the global temperature rise never beyond 20C. Neither current environmental conservation model has a control over pollution nor the ongoing economic growth model meets the need of all. Hence the urgent necessity for an alterative. The onus is now on the humanity to reinvent an economic-environment model. This would sound as an imbroglio, but solvable through a six-point approach as follows:
Narrative 1: The small country Bhutan has introduced a big idea of Gross National Happiness index to replace the unsuccessful GDP. France has started practicing Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. All such creative ideas comprise of various indicators that promote not growth but welfare; inclusive development, equality and wellbeing of the environment. 
Narrative 2: It’s high time that each and everyone gets equal rights and entitlements in the global atmospheric space, which also builds conditions for limits on consumption and production. 
Narrative 3: Creation of resilient local ecosystems and resources like building a water resilient society thereby promoting community-owned decentralized water management assets; ensuring that every drop of water is harvested, recycled and reused.
Narrative 4: Adopting innovative technologies, for example, efficient public transport system instead of private modes of travel; green cities than energy and resource inefficient cities. 
Narrative 6: The idea was made lucid when Mr. Chandra Bhushan explained that high value export-led, mechanised production and consumption get dollars, taxes and few wealthy people; not jobs, equality and sustainability.
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