By Senashia Ekanayake
From November 30 – December 12, 2015 roughly 50,000 participants from 195 countries attended the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties organised by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, France.

New Delhi: India will launch its first major crop damage insurance scheme for farmers in the fiscal year starting 1 April, agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Friday, in what could be Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first significant move to address the distress plaguing the country’s agricultural sector. The impact of unseasonal rains and […]

New Delhi: India will move up to the toughest emission standards of BS-VI from the current BS-IV by 2020, skipping an intermediate level, transport minister Nitin Gadkari said. The decision—the immediate motivation appears to be the poor air quality in New Delhi—will make cars, sports utility vehicles (SUVs), trucks and buses more expensive. Auto companies […]

TRANSLATING GLOBAL FRAMEWORKS TO FRONTLINE RESILIENCE ACTION Workshop on India’s Implementation of Global Frameworks and Role of CSOs Risks as perceived by communities often go beyond the scope of what is recognized in international frameworks. The multi-faceted problems at the ground level are inter-linked and fail to fit neatly into sectoral boxes. This has meant […]

The eighth National Steering Committee on Climate Change (NSCCC) approved four projects from Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Punjab and also considered one project submitted by Government of Madhya Pradesh, at a meeting held here today. The agenda of the meeting was to consider the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) submitted by Government of Tamil Nadu and […]

By Vositha Wijenayake
The Paris Agreement focusing on climate change and ways to address its adverse impacts was adopted on the 12th December 2015.

By Aditi Kapoor 
Gender and climate change are often seen as two disconnected areas. Even when the connections are recognized, gender remains on the margins of climate change solutions. World leaders at the recently concluded global climate talks at the Conference of Parties (COP) 21 meeting at Paris in December 2015

As the leaders from across the world converged in Paris along with CANSA (Climate Action Network South Asia) representatives, SEED Kolkata also conducted several climate mobilisation activities in West Bengal especially in Kolkata and Sundarbans. Keeping in tune with these mobilisation activities, SEED is going to organize a two day’s “Low Carbon Agriculture” training in […]

By Aditi Kapoor
Despite 196 nations giving their ‘aye’ to the global climate agreement adopted in Paris on Saturday, the agreement does not really spell a win-win situation for all.

Sabuj Mancha, roughly translated means a green platform, is a forum of individuals and organizations being conscious to the cause of environment. The platform has been born in 2009 and since then has been raising concern against various forms of environmental and climatic degradations. Presently it is the biggest platform of its kind in state of West Bengal in India