A documentary series of 16 stories of resilience shot in five of India’s most climate-vulnerable states
2 years, 5 months ago

A documentary series of 16 stories of resilience shot in five of India’s most climate-vulnerable states

The Hindu  

Women from 10 self-help groups from Tandahara village in Odisha’s Puri district have been nurturing a forest, which will provide a measure of protection from the water, especially seawater intrusion, that destroys their fields. Elsewhere, at Kalu village in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district, a ‘community facility centre’ helps pastoralists build climate resilience by storing water for cattle in the drought-hit region and in Uttrakhand’s Almora district the women of Kharkiya village help fight forest fires. These are part of a short documentary series Faces of Climate Resilience comprising 16 stories of climate resilience filmed in five of India’s most climate-vulnerable States — Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. The films, produced in association with India Climate Collaborative, Edelgive Foundation and Drokpa Films, were commissioned by the not-for-profit policy research institution and will be uploaded on their YouTube channel in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference scheduled to be held at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from November 6 to 18. “These shorts ‘humanise’ climate change, bring out the stories of communities building climate resilience and how people are adapting despite the climate challenges, and get these out to people,” says Shawn Sebastian.

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India hasn’t warmed as quickly but likely to warm faster now: Harvard scientist
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India hasn’t warmed as quickly but likely to warm faster now: Harvard scientist

Hindustan Times  

Temperature rise in India has been lower than in the world’s other parts as per the 40-year data from the US agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration but this will change and India will have to adapt to higher rates of warming, a Harvard University climate scientist has said. “The good news is that India has not warmed as quickly..it …

Bridging Science and Policy: How localised climate data can shape India’s resilient future
1 week, 2 days ago

Bridging Science and Policy: How localised climate data can shape India’s resilient future

The Hindu  

In a rapidly warming world, climate data is not just numbers on a screen, it holds the key to survival. Processing complex climate data into easily usable form at a high level of granularity is difficult and hence there is a general hurdle for the policymakers to interpret the projections and apply them effectively. This scenario made us firmly believe …

Building inclusive climate resilience in India’s cities
1 month, 1 week ago

Building inclusive climate resilience in India’s cities

The Hindu  

The Disaster Management Bill, 2024, which was passed in the Lok Sabha in December 2024, offers great promise to combat increasing climate woes that plague Indian cities. In the recently launched report, From Informality to Impact: The Untapped Potential of Scaling Urban Resilience Innovation in Informal Settlement, Transitions Research and the Global Resilience Partnership ‘assessed more than 130 resilience solutions …

Storms, droughts, displacement: How climate change is hitting India's tribes
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Storms, droughts, displacement: How climate change is hitting India's tribes

India Today  

If you see ants building mounds along the sides of their nests, would it mean anything to you? Sustainable Ecosystem Management Indigenous communities have always played a key role in managing ecosystems sustainably, helping to protect natural resources and biodiversity. Integrating Indigenous Knowledge with Modern Technology An integrated approach that combines modern science with Indigenous knowledge is important for tackling …

A liveable planet must remain on the agenda
2 months ago

A liveable planet must remain on the agenda

Live Mint  

“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once," noted author Ray Cummings. However, with landslides and floods hitting Kerala, Rajasthan facing scorching heat and water scarcity, urban flooding in Bengaluru, severe cold waves in Northern India, Himachal Pradesh’s prolonged monsoon season lifting its dengue case count, forest fires devastating Uttarakhand, and India experiencing its hottest October in 123 years …

Unlocking philanthropy to meet India’s climate goals
3 months ago

Unlocking philanthropy to meet India’s climate goals

Hindustan Times  

India’s climate crisis is not a distant threat — it’s a stark reality impacting millions across the country. To truly unlock its potential in advancing India’s climate goals, philanthropy must focus on key strategic areas that can drive community resilience. Empowering civil society: By investing in civil society organisations, we can ensure that opinions from communities directly affected by the …

Echoes of nature: Frontline’s top 12 environment stories of 2024
3 months, 1 week ago

Echoes of nature: Frontline’s top 12 environment stories of 2024

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 17, 2024 18:01 IST - 1 MIN READ Arguably one of the most disturbing headlines from the world of environment came when we rang in the New Year. In January 2024, from a pristine little island in the Indian Ocean, the Great Nicobar Island, author Pankaj Sekhsaria reported on the unimaginable havoc a proposed Rs.72,000 crore infrastructure …

Almost everyone in India vulnerable to climate change impacts; need for concerted efforts: Dr. Swaminathan at COP29
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Almost everyone in India vulnerable to climate change impacts; need for concerted efforts: Dr. Swaminathan at COP29

The Hindu  

Almost everyone in India is now vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, former chief scientist of the World Health Organisation Dr. Soumya Swaminathan has said, underscoring the urgent need for cross-ministerial and international collaboration to address its effects on health, gender and economic stability in the country. She emphasised that “access to clean energy for everyone is a priority.” …

Why India must prioritise women in climate action
6 months, 1 week ago

Why India must prioritise women in climate action

Hindustan Times  

In today’s times, we all witness climate crises in some form or another in our daily lives. Second, realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of women-led development as a cornerstone of Viksit Bharat requires addressing women's vulnerability to the climate crisis. Climate crisis Historically, women have played a key role as primary caregivers and food producers in India, especially in …

Climate change impacts millions in India. But as the country votes, some politicians skirt the issue
10 months, 1 week ago

Climate change impacts millions in India. But as the country votes, some politicians skirt the issue

Associated Press  

BEED, India — Almost 970 million Indians are voting in general elections amid sweltering heat and unpredictable weather extremes exacerbated by human-caused climate change, leading to loss of livelihood, forced migration and increasingly difficult living conditions for millions across the country. Issues related to religion, caste and employment still determine most Indians’ political preferences, but Koll said that at local …

One in six cultural heritage sites are at risk thanks to climate change - here’s how we’re trying to save them
1 year, 2 months ago

One in six cultural heritage sites are at risk thanks to climate change - here’s how we’re trying to save them

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy From Victorian glasshouses to ancient water channels, a new slate of projects has been announced …

Climate Change and Clean Energy: Moving from Commitments to Actions
1 year, 4 months ago

Climate Change and Clean Energy: Moving from Commitments to Actions

News 18  

Indian weather is becoming warmer every year, breaking historical records of rising temperatures. Governments and international organisations across the world have already been taking various measures to deal with the problem of climate change and come up with innovative solutions to transition towards a low-carbon development strategy. Many private sector companies have also adopted sustainable practices at the organisational level …

Aspirational Blocks Programme can bolster climate resilience, mitigation and adaptation
1 year, 4 months ago

Aspirational Blocks Programme can bolster climate resilience, mitigation and adaptation

Hindustan Times  

As we get ready to embrace yet another smoggy winter with AQI already dipping to hazardous levels, 2023 has already witnessed various adverse climate events, from heat waves and wildfires to unprecedented monsoons and floods in the Himalayan states with large-scale loss and livelihoods, giving us a glimpse of the potential consequences that may unfold in the decades and centuries. …

India’s climate crisis susceptibility and the way forward
1 year, 9 months ago

India’s climate crisis susceptibility and the way forward

Hindustan Times  

The climate crisis poses an increasingly complex challenge worldwide, with profound implications for ecosystems, economies, and societies. India's vulnerability to climate crisis necessitates a long-term approach to build resilience and adapt to the changing climate. By adopting measures that enhance resilience in sectors such as agriculture, water management, and infrastructure, India can mitigate the adverse impacts of the climate crisis …

Review of Vinod Thomas’s Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change: Notes on averting a climate disaster
1 year, 9 months ago

Review of Vinod Thomas’s Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change: Notes on averting a climate disaster

The Hindu  

Every national and State government is today confronted by the challenge of climate change, a phenomenon that defies electoral cycles and demands political consensus to prepare for a growing existential risk. All countries recognise the need to build resilience against the effects of global heating, but as Vinod Thomas, a visiting professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, …

‘Climate crisis not only urban, but also rural and developmental’, says Aromar Revi, IIHS director
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Climate crisis not only urban, but also rural and developmental’, says Aromar Revi, IIHS director

Hindustan Times  

As India’s already warm cities get warmer, the real danger of the climate crisis lurks in the form of a water and food crises for the country’s large urban population, and experts warn that only a systemic transformation can reverse the grim trajectory that we find ourselves on. Aromar Revi, director of the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute for Human Settlements and …

Heatwaves are preventing India from achieving development goals: Study
1 year, 11 months ago

Heatwaves are preventing India from achieving development goals: Study

Live Mint  

Heatwaves in India are not only affecting the health of the people but also impacting the economic and developmental goals of the country. A new study has revealed the impact of scorching heat on India's agriculture, economy, and public health. The study informs that India is currently “facing a collision of multiple, cumulative climate hazards” resulting in extreme weather events …

World Earth Day: Climate change has significant implications for health, food security, and livelihoods in India
1 year, 11 months ago

World Earth Day: Climate change has significant implications for health, food security, and livelihoods in India

Firstpost  

Multidimensional nature of the relationship between climate change and associated reverberations makes it very difficult for India to address it, especially in the context of its socio-economically vulnerable population The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphasised that the global surface temperature will exceed the targets of 1.5 C and 2 C above pre-industrial levels set …

Eco-anxiety and India’s young
1 year, 11 months ago

Eco-anxiety and India’s young

The Hindu  

It was December 21, 2012, and 14-year-old Shaarvari Shreenath was convinced that the world was ending. “It’s a lazy response to the climate crisis; it doesn’t allow a deeper engagement with the here and now,” he says. Holding up a mirror to people’s anxieties “Apocalyptic content has always existed in comic books and video games,” says Aniruddho Chakroborty, a film …

The age of ‘climate fiction’: how Indian novels and cinema have spotlighted stark realities with more nuance than the West
2 years ago

The age of ‘climate fiction’: how Indian novels and cinema have spotlighted stark realities with more nuance than the West

The Hindu  

In Janice Pariat’s latest novel, Shai’s story begins with a declaration — “to go back to where I came from — the wettest place on Earth”. No genre switch, this Works like Pariat’s, Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain, and Kartiki Gonsalves’s film The Elephant Whisperers are constructing climate realities where the environment exists as a backdrop, a protagonist, but also …

Life in the in-between: the stories in Tomorrow’s Parties offer a glimpse of what living with climate change may look like
2 years ago

Life in the in-between: the stories in Tomorrow’s Parties offer a glimpse of what living with climate change may look like

The Hindu  

This year is when the United Nations will do a “global stocktake” of the climate, “when countries will review progress towards the Paris Agreement goals, including the goal of keeping global warming to well below 2°C”. Similar stories of improbable wisdom and wild truths find space in Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene brought out by MIT Press as part …

’Communities must be the subject of policy, infrastructure to build climate resilience’
2 years, 1 month ago

’Communities must be the subject of policy, infrastructure to build climate resilience’

The Hindu  

All infrastructure and policy developed to deal with the climate crisis will fail if communities become the object of pity, rather than the subject of interventions, Arunabha Ghosh, founder-CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water, said on Saturday. Experts working in the climate space — including Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary in the Tamil Nadu Department of Environment, Climate Change, …

UP, Bihar among World's top 50 regions facing climate risk: Report
2 years, 1 month ago

UP, Bihar among World's top 50 regions facing climate risk: Report

Hindustan Times  

Nine states in India, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab, are among the world's top 50 regions at risk of damage to the built environment due to climate change hazards, according to a new report published on Monday. Read here: NGT directs authorities to demolish hotel constructed in Sundarbans Cross Dependency Initiative, part of a group of companies committed …

Climate-proofing India’s socio-economic trajectory
2 years, 1 month ago

Climate-proofing India’s socio-economic trajectory

Live Mint  

With existing socio-economic challenges, India needs a people-first development paradigm to move towards a climate-secure future, and become a leading voice on climate action for the Global South. With programmes around green fuel, climate-friendly farming, green buildings, low-carbon mobility, and policies for efficient energy use across various economic sectors, the 2023-24 Budget lays a strong foundation for green growth – …

MNLU: Call For Chapters For The Book "Climate Change Crisis: Assessing The Actions For Future"
2 years, 2 months ago

MNLU: Call For Chapters For The Book "Climate Change Crisis: Assessing The Actions For Future"

Live Law  

About the University MNLU, Nagpur – the nineteenth National Law University in the country, was established by the Government of Maharashtra by enacting the Maharashtra National Law University Act. About the Centre for Environmental Law The Centre for Environmental Law established at the National Law University, Nagpur,, is an endeavour of the University to respond to the need for legal …

A new lease of LIFE for climate action
2 years, 5 months ago

A new lease of LIFE for climate action

The Hindu  

Our world today is in turmoil, facing multiple, mutually reinforcing crises. India’s track record Today, in Gujarat, from the Statue of Unity, this vision of LIFE is taking flight as a global mission launched by Mr. Modi together with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who has come to India to show his support. LIFE resonates with the global climate justice India …

India’s climate imperative
2 years, 8 months ago

India’s climate imperative

The Hindu  

In the absence of COVID-19, climate change-induced disasters would have been India’s biggest red alert in recent years. The heatwave that scorched Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and New Delhi this year; torrential downpours in south India in 2021; and the super cyclone Amphan that battered West Bengal and Odisha in 2020 are symbols of man-made climate change. Labour losses from …

Earth Day: India Finds Itself in Catch-22 Situation, Ecosystem-based Adaptation a Ray of Hope
2 years, 11 months ago

Earth Day: India Finds Itself in Catch-22 Situation, Ecosystem-based Adaptation a Ray of Hope

News 18  

Since the 20th century, India has witnessed continuing change in weather conditions and consequent impact on human and economic capital. Ecosystem-based Adaptation is a promising approach that strives to regain this balance by restoring the natural resources and also building adaptive capacities of people to combat the adverse impacts of climate change. EbA Contributions to Climate Change Goals The global …

Tackling extreme heat risks in India
2 years, 11 months ago

Tackling extreme heat risks in India

Hindustan Times  

Delhi recorded its fifth consecutive day of heat wave on Monday. Extreme heat exposures, already a public health emergency in India that killed an estimated 46,600 people aged 65 or older in 2019, continue to worsen. A robust public health policy response to extreme heat events must include early warning systems, effective outreach strategies to improve community awareness, and tailored …

Rich countries can’t wash their hands off with net-zero targets
3 years ago

Rich countries can’t wash their hands off with net-zero targets

Live Mint  

The sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change comes in four parts, three of them by three different working groups, while the fourth integrates the findings of the three working group reports into a synthesis. If the developed countries carry out the expenditure on sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere the expensive way and on carrying …

JLF2022: Climate Change, Energy Conservation And Clean Energy To Be Major Topics Of Discussion
3 years ago

JLF2022: Climate Change, Energy Conservation And Clean Energy To Be Major Topics Of Discussion

News 18  

Scheduled from 5th-14th March 2022, the Jaipur Literature Festival will bring a brilliant line-up of sessions on climate change and environment. In conversation with former diplomat and author Navtej Sarna, Maçães will discuss book Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis. https://www.instagram.com/p/CaopdRfBpKj/ Urgency of Borrowed Time will also bring Lakshmi Puri, former Assistant Secretary-General of …

The climate crisis worsens
3 years, 1 month ago

The climate crisis worsens

Hindustan Times  

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ’s report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, released on Monday, is an unvarnished account of the expanding footprint of the climate crisis on the world. Mass mortality events on land and ocean; first climate-driven extinctions; loss of hundreds of local species; death and disease due to extreme heat are some of the …

The climate crisis is about the Global South’s present
3 years, 4 months ago

The climate crisis is about the Global South’s present

Al Jazeera  

COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, was an event where less than 0.0004 percent of the population met to negotiate our lives. This exclusion becomes a refusal to acknowledge the proximity of the climate crisis and casts it as a problem of the future when millions are dying today. Our campaigns and conversations focused on the future, and they did not measure …

One or two disasters won't wake up India: Amitav Ghosh on climate crisis
3 years, 4 months ago

One or two disasters won't wake up India: Amitav Ghosh on climate crisis

India Today  

As COP26, or this year’s United Nations climate summit, began in Scotland’s Glasgow, India Today TV Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai spoke to author Amitav Ghosh, who has worked extensively on environmental issues, on the Indian situation. I wish I could say that one or two disasters would wake the country up but it’s clear that it’s not going to happen. …

Climate migration predicted to rise in India amid extreme weather
3 years, 5 months ago

Climate migration predicted to rise in India amid extreme weather

Al Jazeera  

Study says droughts, floods and heatwaves are fuelling climate migration as nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes. A rise in extreme weather events in India – from droughts and floods to heatwaves and hailstorms – is fuelling climate migration as the nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes, land and livelihoods, researchers say. “We cannot afford to …

Climate crisis: Why India must focus on adaptation
3 years, 5 months ago

Climate crisis: Why India must focus on adaptation

Hindustan Times  

Two recent publications point out pathways for India to meet the challenges posed by the climate crisis. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ’s Sixth Assessment Report, released in August, acknowledged India’s efforts towards pledges on emission, but advocated a net-zero deadline. The message for India, therefore, is not so much mitigation, but to go for a quicker, broader, and …

IPCC Climate Change Report: What Should Be India's Immediate Plan Of Action?
3 years, 7 months ago

IPCC Climate Change Report: What Should Be India's Immediate Plan Of Action?

The Quint  

"For example, we saw how cities like Mumbai and Kolkata were flooded just a few days back. The immediate step for something like this would be to re-design our drainage systems to adapt to climate change projections. An important policy aspect for India to look at is also how it extends "climate services" to those most vulnerable to the impact …

IPCC Climate Change Report: What Should Be India's Immediate Plan Of Action?
3 years, 7 months ago

IPCC Climate Change Report: What Should Be India's Immediate Plan Of Action?

The Quint  

"For example, we saw how cities like Mumbai and Kolkata were flooded just a few days back. The immediate step for something like this would be to re-design our drainage systems to adapt to climate change projections. An important policy aspect for India to look at is also how it extends "climate services" to those most vulnerable to the impact …

DC Edit | Climate change hits home
3 years, 8 months ago

DC Edit | Climate change hits home

Deccan Chronicle  

The monsoon rains have returned after a lull to Maharashtra and Karnataka with a vengeance. Villages have been worst hit in Raigad district where the death toll has been the highest among Maharashtra’s tally that might be closer to 200 if missing persons are not rescued quickly enough from landslides as they are thought to be in homes buried under …

Climate change resilience actions, in step with India
4 years, 1 month ago

Climate change resilience actions, in step with India

The Hindu  

Last year tested the strength of our communities and the resilience of our countries. By working together, we can reduce emissions — which will remain critical to ensuring global average temperatures stay well below 2° Centigrade — and adapt and build resilience to the climate change already occurring. While our adaptation and resilience work starts at home, Australia is also …

Climate Change Tracker: 75% of India’s districts vulnerable to extreme climate events
4 years, 3 months ago

Climate Change Tracker: 75% of India’s districts vulnerable to extreme climate events

Live Mint  

On December 12, as the world marked five years of the landmark Paris Agreement on Climate Change, it also provided for an opportunity to take stock. On 10 December, the New Delhi-based energy research institution Council on Energy, Environment and Water released a study appraising the climate change-induced threats facing India. The study, Preparing India for Extreme Climate Events: Mapping …

Many Indian districts ‘hotspots’ of climate change
4 years, 3 months ago

Many Indian districts ‘hotspots’ of climate change

The Hindu  

About three in four of India’s districts are hotspots of extreme climate events such as cyclones, floods, drought, heat and cold waves, according to a study by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, a research agency. India saw 250 extreme climate events between 1970 and 2005, and since then 310 extreme weather events. The study also found a shift …

Climate Change Tracker: Key Indian voices on the climate crisis
4 years, 7 months ago

Climate Change Tracker: Key Indian voices on the climate crisis

Live Mint  

“This is the decade of decision. I don’t even want to think about that scenario.” It’s sobering to hear an environmental scientist working with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says these words. A part of the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the goal to ensure that by 2030, …

Kolkata-based animators’ short film on the dangers of climate change garners global attention
4 years, 8 months ago

Kolkata-based animators’ short film on the dangers of climate change garners global attention

The Hindu  

That climate change, and those who deny it, pose a threat bigger than a pandemic to our ecology and the sustenance of human life on Earth is a fact. Co-directed by Kolkata-based Ghost Animation founders Upamanyu Bhattacharyya, 28, and Kalp Sanghvi, 26, Wade recently won the City of Annecy award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and has been …

A long-term, climate-resilient development pathway should guide India’s development
4 years, 9 months ago

A long-term, climate-resilient development pathway should guide India’s development

Hindustan Times  

In May, India faced a double whammy – a super cyclone, Amphan, even as the country struggled with coronavirus disease. A United Nations report on economic losses and disasters estimates that in last 20 years India has lost US$ 79.5 billion due to climate-related disasters This is worrisome. A United Nations report on economic losses and disasters estimates that in …

#Charcha2020: Climate Response & Green Recovery Amid COVID-19
4 years, 10 months ago

#Charcha2020: Climate Response & Green Recovery Amid COVID-19

The Quint  

An unprecedented pandemic is sweeping the world and has affected millions of people so far. Even though the lockdown imposed by many countries including India has reduced the pollution levels and allowed nature to flourish again, the threat is big enough and we should start planning out a robust strategy for the post-COVID-19 period. We are already seeing countries relax …

India is the fifth most vulnerable to climate change fallout, its poor is the worst hit
5 years, 3 months ago

India is the fifth most vulnerable to climate change fallout, its poor is the worst hit

Firstpost  

India’s ranking fluctuates but it has one of the five highest economic losses due to climate change. India had the most deaths in 2018 due to extreme weather events caused by climate change — cyclones, heavy rainfall, floods and landslides — found the 15th edition of the Global Climate Risk Index 2020 prepared by Bonn-based think-tank Germanwatch. Overall, India’s economic …

1.5 million more may die in India each year by 2100 due to extreme heat by climate change: Study
5 years, 4 months ago

1.5 million more may die in India each year by 2100 due to extreme heat by climate change: Study

India Today  

Around 1.5 million more people may die in India each year due to extreme heat by 2100, a new study conducted by Tata Centre for Development at the University of Chicago, USA, found. 10% increase in death rates predicted "India is projected to see an increase of death rates due to climate change equal to about 10 per cent of …

Greta Thunberg is right; we aren't responding to climate change like the crisis it is
5 years, 9 months ago

Greta Thunberg is right; we aren't responding to climate change like the crisis it is

Firstpost  

Strikes, such as those organised by Greta Thunberg, are a start — an important start. There is a small sliver on below-normal monsoon rainfall in the Northwest and Northeast of the country — there is no mention that climate change is projected to change rainfall patterns across the country — with the Northwest progressively becoming drier. There is another small …

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