By Aditi Kapoor
The need to incorporate gender concerns and women’s rights in climate change was discussed at a side-event organized by Alternative Futures and TERRE Policy Centre at the India Pavilion on Tuesday, 8th December, 2015, even as the climate negotiators in adjoining rooms gave scant importance to gender in their draft negotiating texts.

By Zahrah Rizwan
The world population of youth, within the ages of 10-24 amounts to1.8 billion in a world population of 7 billion people, as documented by the UNFPA state of world population 2014.

Dear Friends, You don’t know us. You may not even have heard of us. We speak a different language but we are sure you will understand us. We can’t write; we are illiterate. We are poor. We live in far off places. There’s no light in our village. We use firewood to cook. We have […]

By Rowena Mathew
In order to showcase India’s adaptation efforts and achievement in climate resilient development of agriculture sector, a side event “Scaling up Adaptation Strategies for Climate Resilient Agriculture in India” was scheduled on 5th December, 2015 at the India Pavilion.

By Vositha Wijenayake
Success of the Paris outcome of the climate negotiations will not be only through the strict commitments that countries will be making, but also their participation to the Agreement, as well as complying with the commitments made.

By Senashia Ekanayake
The twenty-first session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP21) kicked off Monday November 30, 2015 with the highest number of country leaders attending a COP.

By Sanjay Vashist
Chennai, India’s fourth-largest city is being battered by record-breaking rainfall that continues to pound the city. The weather and subsequent flooding have already claimed 270 lives, disrupted electricity and phone service in many areas, and forced the city’s airport to shutdown.

By Kashmala Kakakhel
The Paris Conference on Climate Change is a big deal. If successful, it will result in a global deal on combating climate change that may actually make a difference; resulting in real commitments to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally that are the real cause of climate change

By Vositha Wijenayake
In 2010, at the 16th session of the Conference of Parties, the Cancun Adaptation Framework (CAF) affirmed that adaptation and mitigation need to be addressed with the same level of priority.

By Zahrah Rizwan
Climate change is one of the key challenges that the world is facing today. Sri Lanka is already feeling its impacts. When discussing about climate change, mitigation becomes a key component, given that it is the primary form to reduce impacts of climate change.