HDFC Mutual Fund’s fourth edition of its Nurture Nature campaign focuses on water conservation through lake restoration
medianews4u.com | June 07, 2024
Mumbai: HDFC Mutual Fund has launched the fourth edition of its Nurture Nature campaign. Through this campaign the company focuses on water conservation through lake restoration.
Read More…India’s Cities at the Centre of the Climate Crisis
www.rosalux.de | June 01, 2024
As temperatures rise, some Indian metropolises are taking climate action into their own hands
Read More…Climate crisis: Dare we hope?
Deccan Herald | June 01, 2024
The fact is that rising temperatures are merely a symptom of climate change, leading to other challenges of food and energy shortages, and a many-fold increase in natural disasters, affecting safe and healthy living all over the globe.
Read More…For the new government, sustainable development must lead to economic growth
Deccan Herald | May 27, 2024
The stakes are high for India where environment and climate-related risks could cost the nation 3 per cent of its GDP annually.
Read More…Centring climate justice in rapidly urbanising cities of South Asia
questionofcities.org | May 3, 2024
The region is among the most vulnerable to climate change. With nearly 2.5 billion people and a limited capacity to adapt to climate change, South Asia shows how inequity and injustice lie at the heart of climate action…
Read More…Heatwaves are becoming increasingly common. Let’s accept and adapt to it
Deccan Herald | May 03, 2024
The hills have sweltered through three weeks of temperatures that broke all previous heat records. The cardamom flowers have crumbled. The buds of coffee, cocoa, and cloves have wilted away. There is no water in the borewells, and no signs of summer showers in the hill stations and high ranges of Idukki and Wayanad districts of Kerala.
Read More…Protect labourers from adverse impact of climate change
Deccan Herald | May 01, 2024
The Indian jurisprudence has indeed taken cognitive steps in linking the adverse impacts of Climate Change to Articles 21 and 14. In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court of India stated that the rights to life and equality cannot be fully realised without a clean, stable environment. This observation will create a churning in framing and articulating the strong interconnection between lives, livelihoods, environment, and a stable and secure future.
Read More…G7 way off-track in emission cuts to achieve 1.5°C target; finding significant as WMO says Asia ‘global disaster capital’
DownToEarth | April 24, 2024
Two reports, both released on April 23, have exposed the gross inaction of developed countries in countering climatic impacts globally including in Asia, which has been deemed as the world’s ‘disaster capital’ by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Read More…The RISE grants challenge: 5 projects standing up for safety, equality, and justice for all
Race To Resilience | April 24, 2024
As International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are set to announce the winners of the 2023 Resilient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Environments (RISE) grants challenge, we take a look back at the transformative work of last year’s winners…..
Read More…Odds of lightning
Daily Times | April 19, 2024
Dozens of people meet gruesome ends every year as climate change is making lethal strikes. As a reaction to climate change and localized heating of the Earth’s surface and more moisture, there is a sudden surge of massive lightning…..
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