By Senashia Ekanayake
Sri Lanka does not have one too many disasters. There are those that pass by, but for most of the part, we are on the safe side of things and probably have one colossal calamity once a decade.

Water availability, scarcity and management are among the top global risks. LEAD Pakistan’s water programme aims to incorporate social, economic and environmental aspects of water discourse, policies and programmes, at national and international levels. Our focus areas of #TransboundaryWaters, #GroundWater and #Hydrodisasters, seek guidance from the crosscutting themes of Access, Equity and Hazards, for sustainable […]

Women constitute almost 49 percent of the population of Pakistan. According to the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2012-2013, there are 102 males for 100 females, thus urging the need to empower women when it comes to education, employment and political and social life. However, when women’s empowerment is denied, it makes them weak and […]

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.