By Anju Sharma
The Indian Ministry for Environment and Forests (MOEF)  has been renamedthe Ministry for Environment, Forests and Climate Change by the new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is meant to indicate the climate change will be a priority for the Modi administration, with MOEF in the lead.

By Anju Sharma
India has a new government. Narendra Modi, leader of the centre-right National Democratic Alliance (NDA), took oath as Prime Minster this week following a landslide election victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). What will this mean for India’s poor,

CANSA Director Sanjay Vashist, expresses his view on the on the new step in Indian politics and analyses the potential impacts of India PM Designated Narendra Modi’s from BJP… ‘NaMo’ India Dawn of May 16, 2014, #India woke up anticipating election results that were to be announced after six weeks of election campaigning and eight […]

A National Consultation on the involvement of Christians in the issue of caring for the environment and climate change was organised by Evangelical Fellowship Of India Commission On Relief #EFICOR in association with World Vision India and Emmanuel Hospital Association from February 10-13, 2014. The Consultation took place in the outskirts of Chennai. The main […]

By Navam Niles 
The most underrated phenomenon of our lifetimes is climate change, which is without precedent and affects every species on the planet in varying degrees. In its simplest form, according to the UNFCCC, climate change refers to a change of climate that is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity,

By Carlos Méndez, John Kudrenecky and Tania Guillén
Sunday, April 27, officially opened the 8th instalment of the International Community Based Adaptation (CBA8), which is organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED ) and promoted by a group of more than 15 international organisations among which includes Southern Voices,

By Vositha Wijenayake 
As the June UNFCCC intersessions and the September Ban Ki-moon Summit (BKM Summit) approach, the Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group spoke to CANSA on his expectations from the BKM Summit, Bonn Ministerial and the 2015 Agreement.

By Anju Sharma
Real Swaraj (self-rule) will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority. – Mahatma Gandhi

By Senashia Ekanayake 
The scorching sun, followed by abrupt rain to disturb the peace of a warm and sweaty weekday afternoon. The weather has become the topic of discussion at the workplace, in classrooms and with your tuk-tuk drivers while waiting for the traffic light to turn green.

By Vositha Wijeynayake 
The UNFCCC intersession held in Bonn, of the Ad hoc Working Group on Durban Platform (ADP) came to a close the evening of 14 March 2014. A few things that were highlighted during the final plenary could be summed up as the start of Formal talks on UN Climate change deal to be in June and Parties