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Naovina Development Of IP And Research Foundation: Round Table Discussion On Strengthening IP For Innovation & Cultural Preservation In South Asia [21st - 22nd Dec]
3 days, 6 hours ago

Naovina Development Of IP And Research Foundation: Round Table Discussion On Strengthening IP For Innovation & Cultural Preservation In South Asia [21st - 22nd Dec]

Live Law  

The Centre for Development of Intellectual Property and Research, Naovina Development of Intellectual Property and Research Foundation, announces the Round Table Discussion as part of the South Asian Global Intellectual Property Summit, 2024. This Round Table Discussion is a two days virtual event that brings together leading policymakers, academicians, industry professionals, and IP experts from across South Asia to address …

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Grand jury report faults San Francisco for inadequate climate threat planning
6 months, 1 week ago

Grand jury report faults San Francisco for inadequate climate threat planning

LA Times  

As climate change unleashes ever-more powerful storms, worsening floods and rising sea levels, San Francisco remains woefully unprepared for inundation, a civil grand jury determined in a report this week. Jury foreperson Michael Carboy said it made sense to look into the issue of climate-related flooding because San Francisco is a “peninsula surrounded by water on three sides — and …

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Gavin Newsom, during his speech at the Vatican on climate change, accuses Trump of ‘open corruption’
7 months, 1 week ago

Gavin Newsom, during his speech at the Vatican on climate change, accuses Trump of ‘open corruption’

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom, left, delivers his speech during the “From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience” three-day summit organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican on Thursday. “He openly asked them for $1 billion to roll back the environmental progress of the Biden administration, environmental progress that we’ve made over the course of the last half century,” Newsom said. …

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RBI guideline on climate risk disclosure – a pragmatic step for India
7 months, 3 weeks ago

RBI guideline on climate risk disclosure – a pragmatic step for India

Hindustan Times  

The RBI’s guidelines will put into place the importance of early climate impact systems to protect communities and companies small and large. This announcement was made a week before United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission voting to approve new climate risk disclosure rules, while narrowing mitigation disclosures and adding adaptation pertaining to capitalised costs, expenditures expensed, charges, and losses incurred …

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Pakistan must invest in climate resilience to survive, says prime ministerial hopeful Bhutto-Zardari
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Pakistan must invest in climate resilience to survive, says prime ministerial hopeful Bhutto-Zardari

Associated Press  

NURPUR NOON, Pakistan — Pakistan must invest in climate resilience for its survival, prime ministerial hopeful Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press. The country is two weeks away from parliamentary elections, but so far only Bhutto-Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party has made climate adaptability and resilience key pledges in its platform. It’s a tough task given …

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Climate-focused policies are key to building resilient infrastructure
1 year ago

Climate-focused policies are key to building resilient infrastructure

Hindustan Times  

COP28 began on a positive note with the approval of the loss and damage fund. Lack thereof was evident from this year’s Delhi floods, caused in part due to jammed floodgates on the Yamuna barrage. India has also championed the establishment of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, which promotes climate action not only in India but also in many …

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Coastline in crisis | Six experts give us their climate manifesto for Mumbai
1 year ago

Coastline in crisis | Six experts give us their climate manifesto for Mumbai

Hindustan Times  

Emblematic of numerous coastal cities globally, Mumbai confronts a growing onslaught of climate-induced challenges. The components of climate proofing the city from the risk of floods, for instance, involve enhancing green cover and implementing “sponge city” infrastructure, i.e urban development designed to absorb and reuse rainwater, reducing flooding and enhancing water sustainability by integrating green spaces, permeable surfaces, and innovative …

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COP28: Draft adaptation text lists 7 targets, expresses concern over finance gap
1 year ago

COP28: Draft adaptation text lists 7 targets, expresses concern over finance gap

Hindustan Times  

A new draft text on the Global Goal on Adaptation released on Wednesday at the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai lists seven targets, including significantly reducing climate-induced water scarcity, for implementation by and beyond 2030. The text seeks resilience against climate change-related health impacts, promoting climate-resilient health services, and significantly reducing climate-related morbidity and mortality, particularly in the most …

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Harvest the Odisha story to ensure food security
1 year ago

Harvest the Odisha story to ensure food security

The Hindu  

As the world’s leaders are in a huddle for COP28, or the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, the worsening impact of the climate crisis paints a grim picture for the planet, peace and prosperity. Odisha’s story has three specific themes in the current scenario: how the State strengthened food security by transforming agriculture …

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Aspirational Blocks Programme can bolster climate resilience, mitigation and adaptation
1 year, 1 month 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. …

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COP28: Why India's role is pivotal in climate justice and finance
1 year, 2 months ago

COP28: Why India's role is pivotal in climate justice and finance

Firstpost  

India, along with other developing countries, is pushing for a new global climate finance target, acknowledging the growing costs of addressing and adapting to climate change India’s stance at COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, centres around the importance of adaptation and equity in addressing climate change. Over the past two years, developed economies have also collaborated with major …

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’Communities must be the subject of policy, infrastructure to build climate resilience’
1 year, 9 months 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, …

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Floods & year 2022: Natural disaster hit every continent | What can be done to limit the damage?
1 year, 11 months ago

Floods & year 2022: Natural disaster hit every continent | What can be done to limit the damage?

India TV News  

Floods & year 2022: The year 2022 gave a straight message— adapt a nature-friendly life style to mitigate flood damage or face a cycle of destruction. “Flood warning systems are a cost-efficient way to prevent floods from destroying lives and livelihoods.” “While warnings don’t prevent flooding, they give advance notice of an impending flood to allow communities to prepare: bringing …

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Building climate resilience collectively
2 years ago

Building climate resilience collectively

The Hindu  

India unveiled its long-term climate action plan at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in November. Have a data-driven approach There are several flagship missions championed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs as well, which target specific objectives towards creating a smart, sustainable and …

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A documentary series of 16 stories of resilience shot in five of India’s most climate-vulnerable states
2 years, 1 month 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 …

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Green gaslighting: Another face of climate denialism
2 years, 10 months ago

Green gaslighting: Another face of climate denialism

Al Jazeera  

We are living in a moment of our planet’s history where carbon dioxide concentrations have peaked for the first time in 3 million years. Instead, governments, financial institutions and corporations made pledges about reaching “net zero” emissions, building “climate resilience” and “ending deforestation”. Today, the same tactic is deployed vis-à-vis climate change: “climate solutions” that protect, if not boost, profits …

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Climate danger grows in ‘vulnerable’ Myanmar after military coup
3 years ago

Climate danger grows in ‘vulnerable’ Myanmar after military coup

Al Jazeera  

Fears that military could step up exploitation of resources to shore up finances, putting one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations at increased risk. “But development partners seem frozen since the coup, and private sector investors instinctively now view Myanmar as high risk and look to alternatives in Southeast Asia, even though climate investments there may have as many problems …

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