[South Asia] – April 13, 2014: Climate Action Network South Asia welcomes the launch of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (#IPCC) latest report in Berlin today which shows that avoiding catastrophic climate change is still possible, but only with rapid and sustained cuts to #CarbonPollution. The report points to the benefits of increasing the […]

[South Asia] – March 31, 2014 – South Asia has been warned. The launch of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of Working Group (WG) II by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) entitled Climate Change 2014: Impacts, #Adaptation, and Vulnerability provided impacts of climate change to date, the future risks from a changing climate […]

[Orchha, Madhya Pradesh] – March 25, 2014 – Climate Action Network South Asia in partnership with Climate Action Network Europe and hosted by Development Alternatives together will conduct a four-day Summit entitled Strengthen Linkages between EU-South Asia Networks on Addressing Climate Impacts from March 24-27, 2014 in Orchha, India. The sessions for the day included […]

[Orchha, Madhya Pradesh] – March 25, 2014 – Climate Action Network South Asia in partnership with Climate Action Network Europe and hosted by Development Alternatives together conducted the first of a four-day Summit entitled Strengthen Linkages between EU-South Asia Networks on Addressing Climate Impacts on March 24, 2014 in Orchha, India. The sessions for the […]

[Orchha, Madhya Pradesh] – March 24, 2014 – Climate Action Network South Asia in partnership with Climate Action Network Europe and hosted by Development Alternatives together will conduct a four-day Summit entitled Strengthen Linkages between EU-South Asia Networks on Addressing Climate Impacts from March 24-27, 2014 in Orchha, India. The Summit is devised to envisage […]

[Colombo, Sri Lanka] – March 21, 2014 – Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA) in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Press Institute conducted the second Workshop on #ClimateChange and Development Journalism for local journalists yesterday, Thursday March 20, 2014 at the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI), Colombo 05. The Workshop focused on the Intergovernmental Panel on […]

As an organisation that lobbies for climate action, CANSA has identified and constantly spoken of the grave threat to the South Asian region. Comprising few of the world’s poorest countries, nearly 40% of South Asian live with less than USD 1.25 a day. With the region’s heavy dependency on agriculture and 70% of its population […]

[Colombo, Sri Lanka] – February 10, 2014 – Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA) in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Press Institute conducted a Workshop on Climate Change and Development Journalism for local journalists yesterday, Monday February 10, 2014 at the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI), Colombo 05. The Workshop highlighted the energy situation in […]

Climate Action Network South Asia in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Press Institute will conduct a Workshop on Climate Change and Development Journalism for local journalists on Monday February 10, 2014 at the Sri Lanka Press Institute, Colombo 05. The speakers for the event will include Energy Forum Director and Ministry of Technology and Research […]

The second day of the “South Asian Parliamentarians and Policymakers at Work: Putting Climate Adaptation, Food Security, Population Dynamics Back in the Agenda” sub-regional conference, witnessed spirited debates and productive discussions on a variety of critical climate related issues. The primary focus was on issues concerning agriculture and food security, water security, and migration and […]