Mobile tableau near top pujas spreads awareness about climate change
The Telegraph India (My Kolkata) | 27th October 2023
Puja and paribesh (environment) emerged as perfect partners this Durga Puja with a specially designed tableaux set up near popular pandals to showcase green concerns, including climate change, and possible solutions drawing large crowds….
Read More…India’s climate discourse needs local narratives
qrius.com | 3rd October 2023
The language and expressions shaping the climate change conversation often don’t resonate with the realities of the most affected communities. This needs to change…
Read More…‘It is high time India has a law that recognises climate migrants’
DownToEarth | 1st October 2023
On December 9, 2022, Member of Parliament Pardyut Bordoloi introduced a private member bill to recognise climate migrants and ensure their holistic rehabilitation…
Read More…‘Global commons’: Indo-Bangla consensus on need to highlight climate impact, loss & damage in Sundarbans globally
DownToEarth | 27 September 2023
UN Loss and damage discussion progressing slowly; experts favour wider sourcing and innovative funding for Sundarbans..
Read More…Canada must do more in ‘make-or-break’ global climate moment, groups urge
Global News | 18 September 2023
Canada is facing a “make-or-break” moment to regulate its oil and gas industry, several global environmental groups say. More than 250 environmental organizations urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to prioritize the matter as MPs returned to Ottawa on Monday.
Read More…U.N. ‘stocktake’ calls for fossil fuel phaseout to minimize temperature rise
Mongabay News | 12 September 2023
The U.N. climate change agency published a new report Sept. 8 confirming that while there has been progress on climate change mitigation since the landmark Paris Agreement in 2015, more needs to be done to limit the global rise in temperatures at 1.5°C (2.7°F) above pre-industrial levels...
Read More…South Asia Needs a Policy Framework to Respond to Climate Migration
Science The Wire | 10th August 2023
In the second installment of the four-part series Lands, Borders, and People, a panel of experts examines climate-induced migration pathways, policy efforts at the national and international levels, and some avenues for climate action..
Read More…Lands, Borders, and People: Climate-Induced Migration and Displacement
asiasociety.org | 15th June 2023
In the second installment of the four-part series Lands, Borders, and People, a panel of experts examines climate-induced migration pathways, policy efforts at the national and international levels, and some avenues for climate action..
Read More…Paris finance meet: Momentum builds for polluter taxes to fund green transition
DowntoEarth | 23rd June 2023
Panellists discuss shipping and airline levies, financial transaction taxes and fossil fuel taxes at Pact Summit.
Read More…Kolkata Municipal Corporation launches work on city’s climate action plan
The Hindu businessline | 7th June 2023
The climate action plan will focus on 15 sectors that will cover key issues ranging from urban flooding to energy.
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