By Basanta Paudel
As science becomes increasingly clear about the abrupt impacts of climate change, the governments and practitioners across the world are implementing climate change interventions. Such interventions are aimed at building capacity and enhancing the livelihood of communities.
By Zahrah Rizwan
The young population in the world (between the age of 10 to 24yrs) amounts to 1.8 billion representing 18% of the total world population, according to the UNFPA State of World Population 2014 report.
By Bhagya Wickramsinghe
Climate change is one of the key challenges that has united the countries around the globe. With impacts that affect everyone in the world, it is not a question for one group of society, but all living on the planet.
By Vositha Wijenayake
As the impacts of climate change increase in severity, and are felt on a daily basis, adapting to climate change has become one of the main aspects of addressing the adverse effects of climate change.
LEAD #Pakistan launched a research study on Mainstreaming Community Based Climate Change Adaptation in Pakistan. As part of its research series on vulnerability and resilience, which, as the name suggests, comprises prime studies that examine the vulnerability to a host of climate induced hazards; and also suggests measures to build resilience against them. Each individual […]
As a part of the regular climate discussion, Clean Energy Nepal (CEN) organised a special interaction programme on Environment and Climate Change on the National Budget on July 21, 2014 in Kathmandu, #Nepal. Various representatives from civil society, development agencies and media participated at this event. Mr Raju P Chettri from CEN who facilitated the […]
The Sri Lankan National Steering Committee (NSC) of CANSA unanimously appointed Navam Niles of SLYCAN and Sarath Ekanayake of CABRE as the new Co-Chairs of the NSC at its third meeting for the year at the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA), on July 01, 2014. The participants included members of the NSC: Bandula Chandrasena (Energy […]
By Mohon Kumar Mondal
The South West coastal region of Bangladesh is most vulnerable to both sudden and slow onset impacts of climate change. It is one of the main hotspot in country even in the world, in terms of climate vulnerability.
By Anju Sharma
One of the most critical elements for successful adaptation by poor and vulnerable communities – if not the most critical element – will be their ability to identify local climate-related threats and respond quickly where response is possible, with locally appropriate solutions.
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.