The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (American, 2020)

Summary:
There is a very catastrophic heatwave in India, the power has gone so there is no A/C. Frank May starts helping people, but they continue dying massively. Frank tries to stay calm and positive, but everything starts to get worse. They decide to go to the lake as a last resort, but everyone dies except for Frank, who ends up really traumatized. The population in India decreased extremely and the world leaders finally decide to do something about climate change. On the other hand, Mary Murphy is the director of an organization called The Ministry for the future, that had the intention of changing things with great ideas. As they had no power to impose anything, they had to convince the other countries to do something about the climate crisis. Then, the heatwave comes. People start changing and doing something about it due to an economic policy that central banks came up with. Also, they start doing geoengineering to reduce the heat that was coming into the Earth. A group of ecoterrorists wanted to avenge their dead and did actions that really made a difference, like bombing power plants and downing jetliners. Finally, there is a hopeful future due to all these actions.

Another summary:
The story follows the efforts of the Ministry for the Future, an organization founded during a meeting of the Paris Agreement, as they attempt to change the world to combat climate change. The main focus of the story is Mary Murphy, this young agency’s appointed leader, as well as the different specialists that work alongside her in areas that range from artificial intelligence to finance going through animal conservation and native people’s rights. Throughout the book we also see glimpses of other people’s lives and how they suffered under the old system or how they benefitted from the war on climate change, namely a scientist trying to stop the sea level from rising, some forced workers from poor countries, and various accounts from immigrants. The story also pays particular attention to Frank a survivor of a terrible heat wave that devastated part of India. He is on a personal quest to do something to try and prevent such a catastrophe from happening ever again

Another summary:
The Ministry for the Future, a Subsidiary Body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is in charge of decarbonizing the world in order to protect current and future generations from global warming. It is run by an Irish politician, Mary Murphy, the protagonist of the novel. After a heatwave in India that caused the death of millions of people, the Ministry, the Indian government and geoengineers, and even some eco terrorist groups, make their own individual efforts to try to revert the effects of climate change. Alongside these events, there are also different glimpses of people who suffered the consequences of the heatwave, such as Frank May, who has to deal with PTSD and goes to therapy after surviving the traumatizing horrors of it. However, he finds no solution to his panic attacks, so he decides to kidnap Mary and urges her to take greater action to address the climate crisis. He finally releases her and escapes, effectively making an impact on her. Then, Mary proposes to different countries a series of changes in order to reduce CO2. After many years, the climate crisis is reversed. CO2 levels drop for the first time thanks to the carbon coin and drawdown efforts. 

World view: The world portrayed in the story is an hypothetical society which seems to be worse than the one the author lives in.
Future projections: It’s a fearful prediction of the possible outcomes of today’s actions. Thus, it warns us against the terrible disasters (e.g. overpopulation, war, climate change) which would follow if there is no change in direction.
Ideology: Explains how a better society came to be, in which sociopolitical institutions and individual relationships are organized to a more perfect principle than in the author's community.
Characters, plot and writing style: The story features a rebellion against the adverse circumstances (revolutionaries may exploit newer technologies for these ends).
Classification: Dystopia