By Zahrah Rizwan
The specialty of the 22nd of April 2016 lies not simply in the fact that it is the Earth Day, but also because leaders from over 170 countries will officially sign the Paris Climate Agreement today.

Under Flood Resilient Environmentally Enhanced #DisasterManagement (FREEDM) project, supported by Lutheran world relief, Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) focused its intervention in Eastern state of India. Climate change is already wreaking havoc on ecosystems, economies and communities in this region. The marginalised communities are trapped in the vicious circuit of poverty. Besides monetary resources, […]

By Senashia Ekanayake
A lot of us want to do something about the terrible state of the environment that we live in but truth be told, most of the time, we don’t really know where to start.

By Anoop Poonia
The World Trade Organization (WTO) recently ruled against India’s “buy-local” provisions for large solar projects, which are entitled to subsidy and assured government procurement if the equipment is manufactured locally

By Anoop Poonia
When the Green Climate Fund (GCF) was announced at COP16 in 2010, the intention was to give small, developing countries direct access to finance to protect themselves from climate change. Yet many of the smallest and most at-risk countries in the world now claim that they do not have the means to access these funds directly.

By Senashia Ekanayake
From November 30 – December 12, 2015 roughly 50,000 participants from 195 countries attended the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties organised by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, France.

By Vositha Wijenayake
The Paris Agreement focusing on climate change and ways to address its adverse impacts was adopted on the 12th December 2015.

By Aditi Kapoor 
Gender and climate change are often seen as two disconnected areas. Even when the connections are recognized, gender remains on the margins of climate change solutions. World leaders at the recently concluded global climate talks at the Conference of Parties (COP) 21 meeting at Paris in December 2015

By Aditi Kapoor
Despite 196 nations giving their ‘aye’ to the global climate agreement adopted in Paris on Saturday, the agreement does not really spell a win-win situation for all.

Sabuj Mancha, roughly translated means a green platform, is a forum of individuals and organizations being conscious to the cause of environment. The platform has been born in 2009 and since then has been raising concern against various forms of environmental and climatic degradations. Presently it is the biggest platform of its kind in state of West Bengal in India