CLIMATE CHANGE has materialized into a reality with its impacts visible all over India and the world. The state of Kerala is also experiencing the wrath of climate change by way of increasing weather variability with extreme temperatures in summers and intensive flooding during monsoons. Farmers, fishermen, and other vulnerable local communities suffer the brunt of climate change impacts the most.

The need of the hour is to develop capacities and capabilities to address the challenges posed by climate change in different sectors. In consonance with this view, it is also required to work closely with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Asia Pacific Climate Week 2019 Highlights

Asia Pacific Climate Week 2019 Highlights

Recently in September I was selected to present my work at ATREE on up cycling and wetland conservation at the Asia Pacific Climate week held at UNSECAP office at Bangkok. The climate week was organized in preparation to the UN Secretary-General Climate Action Summit which was held in New York and COP 25 to happen in Spain next month. The action week focused on raising ambitions to accelerate climate action by the countries in the Asia Pacific region to implement the Paris ag

Will wetlands help us cope?

Will wetlands help us cope?

Wetlands, as we know, are picturesque locations with lush green paddy fields and beckoning backwaters with gorgeous slender birds and mighty mangroves. Well, these beautiful places on earth are also amongst the biggest sinks of Carbon. Unbelievable Right? Found in trace amounts, Carbon dioxide or CO2 is famous for its global warming potential. Right now, as we write this article, atmospheric CO2 is at ~410.25ppm (ideal - 350ppm). To limit the warming of planet earth by 1.5 De

Climate Change: Does it really bother me?

Climate Change: Does it really bother me?

Glaciers melting, increasing sea levels or reduced forest cover, Should I be worried? I would rather finish my work than be bothered about it now. But wait, can you share your feelings as a victim to global warming? But I am not a victim. Yes we are, you me and everyone. If you don’t trust it, just ponder over some of the questions that follow. How many of us feel so irritant to travel and go to work on a hot day. Doesn't it makes you feel drained and unproductive? It someti

Exploring and Unraveling Domestic Water Scarcity in Urban Mountain Towns

Exploring and Unraveling Domestic Water Scarcity in Urban Mountain Towns

Do you plan your day around the ways in which you could procure water? A large group of the people who are reading this have the benefit of turning on the tap and always being certain that water will gush out from it. It is something which is taken for granted as one groggily turns on the tap to refresh oneself first thing in the morning. However, there are large sections of the society, who do not have access to a formal water supply. And water being a very essential need in

5 pictures that show climate change is real

5 pictures that show climate change is real

Global Scientific community believes that a 2 degree rise in temperature from pre-industrial levels can be catastrophic. If emissions continue unabated, the world is on track to exceed the global average temperature by 2 degree Celsius—exposing communities to increasingly dangerous forest fires, extreme weather, drought, and other climate impacts. Below are few images that show us the Startling Effects Of Climate Change 1. Artic sea ice Decline A study published by the Ameri

Forests in the Climate Change Conundrum

Forests in the Climate Change Conundrum

“The worst thing that can happen during the 1980s is not energy depletion, economic collapses, limited nuclear war, or conquest by a totalitarian government. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired within a few] generations. The one process ongoing in the 1980s that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly that our descendants are least likely t

Health Woes in Times of Urban Floods

Health Woes in Times of Urban Floods

On Aug 29th, the monsoon fury unleashed on Mumbai, India’s financial city, brought it to a grinding halt. Two toddlers were among 14 people killed in the floods. It received nearly a month’s average rainfall in a single day – that halted the transit lifeline of train services and led to several flight cancellations.[1] It continued for two more days until subsiding. This is touted to be the worst flooding since 2005 that saw death of more than 500 people. Over the last month,

India’s need for developing sustainable energy infrastructure in a carbon constrained future

India’s need for developing sustainable energy infrastructure in a carbon constrained future

India faces a challenge in providing sustainable energy access to all its citizens. While India has to bear the burden of global climate change mitigation, our primary goal is and should be of development. To put things in perspective, still 22% of our population has no access to electricity and our per capita energy consumption is a third of the global average. Further global average per capita income (ppp) is more than 6 times as that of India. If per capita energy consump

Climate Change & Health- Who is at risk?

Climate Change & Health- Who is at risk?

“Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus: in the first place to consider the seasons of the year, and what effects each of them produces, for they are not all alike, but differ much from themselves in regard to their changes”. - Hippocrates; On Airs, Waters, and Places In this era of globalization, the planet earth is facing multiple crises - the recent financial, food and fuel crisis (the ‘three Fs’) and the two ‘slow burn’ crises – the climate c

Whose environment is it anyway?

Whose environment is it anyway?

In a regular classroom discussion, we were once asked to define ‘environment’. Every one of us confidently shouted either ‘surrounding’, ‘climate’, ‘animal and plant habitat’ or ‘nature’. It’s a common word, and we’ve used it since our childhood, we wouldn’t collectively get it wrong. Yet, our professor maintained that something integral was missing in our definition. To exemplify, he painted a scenario for us – “there have been very severe volcanoes in The Antipodes; all the

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