Climate adaptation is a dynamic and complex process. This includes risk assessment, adaptation planning, implementation, and monitoring at different scales. Adaptation strategies vary according to specific types of climate hazards, geographical scales, and time frames. However, limited knowledge while dealing with several uncertainties is a major challenge. CSTEP's scientific strategies can help policymakers design and prioritise adaptation measures to meet our climate agenda.
CSA Adaptation Consultant
The Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Adaptation Consultant will play a key role in project design and provide technical expertise and strategic advice to stakeholders on climate smart adaptation strategies in the agricultural sector.
Coordinator (Climate Resilient Cell)
The Climate Resilient Cell (CRC) will be established at the Directorate of Agriculture, Government of Odisha (GoO). The CRC Coordinator will work under the supervision of Chief Research Coordinator, and will be the primary point of contact, working closely with project teams, stakeholders, line departments, farmer producer organisation (FPOs), and community members. The incumbent will coordinate with the Climate Support Cell (CSC), GoO, and ensure the project activities and outputs are aligned with the state’s overall goals and objectives.
Intern
The Adaptation & Risk Analysis group at CSTEP is looking for an intern to work on a short-term project on assessing the climate risks to RE assets in four Indian states. The intern will assist in conducting a literature study in order to produce policy recommendations for a climate-resilient RE future.
Responsibilities
Cost-Benefit Analysis (Nature-Based Solutions) Consultant
The Consultant will be involved in a short-term project that aims to assess the relevance of cost-benefit analysis in prioritising nature-based solutions for coastal adaptation. This work will be in the climate change adaptation domain within the Climate, Environment, and Sustainability sector.
Responsibilities
Climate resilience must be built into infrastructure and social and political systems
Any development programme can foster climate adaptation and mitigation benefits; it must also, however, feature self-reflection and system assessments. The renowned ecologist C.S. Holling, who brought resilient thinking to the forefront of socio-ecological studies, asserted that systems must evolve while they build resilience. If the baseline system itself is fundamentally unjust and unsustainable, then evolving to a new system is preferable to belatedly attempting to add resilience.
Employing a Systems Thinking Approach in Climate Risk Assessments
The world is witnessing the increasing impacts of climate change at an alarming rate. Wildfires, floods, cyclones, and heatwaves have become uncomfortably common today. Current research in climate sciences tells us that even if we were to completely stop producing greenhouse gases today, we would still face the detrimental impacts of climate change due to historical emissions. Additionally, the impacts of climate change are not felt in isolation.
Risk-based adaptation to ease tropical cyclone impacts
Cyclone Mocha — the first storm of 2023 in the North Indian Ocean — killed people, destroyed buildings, and caused economic losses in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Eastern India, and Sri Lanka. Barely a month later, Biparjoy — a rare June cyclone — formed over the Arabian Sea and struck Gujarat and other western states in India.
Unpacking the concept of climate migration
Human mobility in the context of environmental impacts has been gaining increasing attention. Our blog series ‘Under the Weather, On the Move’ seeks to demystify climate migration by exploring some of its key aspects, intersectional variations, and policy angles.
In this first article, we discuss how climate migration can be broadly defined.
Living a Low-Plastic Lifestyle
World Environment Day reminds us—the contributing species to pollution on planet Earth—that the environment can be preserved through mindful actions and addressing harmful human activities.
In the context of this year's focus on combating plastic pollution, the United Nations Environment Programme has strongly emphasised the significant role of individuals in accelerating the shift to a plastic-free world.