[New Delhi, India] – 25 February 2016 : Climate Action Network South Asia, a coalition of over 143 civil society organizations, collectively condemned the  World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling against India’s ambitious solar program, that requires power companies to use locally manufactured #SolarCells and modules in order to benefit from a government-subsidized program, to achieve […]

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.

Download Here PDF This submission fulfils a request made by the Secretariat for public input on elements for the development of the GCF ESMS in response to Board decision B.07/02, paragraph (n) and an approved outline for the Fund’s ESMS. The input below is provided on behalf of the organizations listed below. This submission should […]

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

Paris, France, Friday 12 December 2015 : Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA), a coalition of over 141 civil society groups from South Asia today termed the final text for Paris climate treaty as durable and dynamic for but has fallen short on being fully fair and responsive to future needs. Sanjay Vashist, Director, Climate […]

Bangladeshi Civil Society Organizations on Behalf of Most Vulnerable Countries (MVC) including LDCs and AOSIS (Association of Small Island States) organized Press Conference in Paris Climate Conference Paris, 11th December 2015. Today Bangladeshi civil society organizations have organized a press conference in Le Bourget, Paris Climate Conference Place. They have rejected the latest draft agreement […]