By Bhagya Wickramasinghe
This week of September is a key week which addresses world’s development agenda and the ways to move forward in addressing the grave impacts of climate change, termed as loss and damage under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The fifteenth United Nations designated youth awareness day or International Youth Day was commemorated on August 12, 2015, world over. Action/2015, together with Climate Action Network South Asia partook in the Action/2015 Youth global movement with the much celebrated #YouthPower poses. The #YouthPower poses is just the beginning of Action/2015 South Asia’s and CANSA’s plans […]

By Bhagya Wickramsinghe
Climate change is one of the key challenges that has united the countries around the globe. With impacts that affect everyone in the world, it is not a question for one group of society, but all living on the planet. 

By Vositha Wijenayake
Various research on climate change has illustrated that men and women are affected differently by the impacts of climate change. It is further noted that they respond differently to these impacts.

By Senashia Ekanayake
The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from July 13-16, 2015 was the first of three high-level international meetings on sustainable development that are to take place this year.

By Vositha Wijenayake
The long awaited encyclical of Pope Francis was released today (18th June) six months ahead of the crucial climate change negotiations which will take place at the end of year in Paris.

There are different realities that developing and developed countries hold and sometimes conflict with national interests, needs and approaches. This lead to diverging positions at the international negotiation tables. More often, the mutual understanding of these positions is lacking, but it is a precondition for fair negotiations. With the examples of India and #Germany CANSA […]

By Sudhir Sharma
March 31st line came and went with only few key developed country Parties submitted their emissions reduction goals for 2030/2025. The missing in action were Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Canada, etc. The anticipation from developing country CSO’s was on how these submissions address equity and ambition.

By Sudhir Sharma
100% renewable energy (RE) is the new push of CSOs working in the field of Climate Change. I agree that we need to get to 100% RE if we want to save this world from drastic climate change. Decreasing RE prices (solar and wind) is giving this argument a more stringency.

By Vositha Wijenayake
As the impacts of climate change increase in severity, and are felt on a daily basis, adapting to climate change has become one of the main aspects of addressing the adverse effects of climate change.