The Climate, Environment and Sustainability team at CSTEP organised a discussion on 12 December 2022 to reflect on the key conversations that happened during COP27.
Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in South Asia.
The domino effect set in motion by COVID-19 is a blunt reminder that under-prepared systems will have to bear devastating shocks.
Traditional agroforestry systems across South Asia have historically supported millions of smallholding farmers.
India is vulnerable, in varying degrees, to multiple disasters.
Climate change will amplify the existing risks and create new risks for natural and socio-economic systems.
Extreme and unpredictable changes in the climate are a cause of serious concern globally.
For adaptation measures to work efficiently, assessments of capacity, technology and financial needs should be integrated.
India has inexplicably dithered from making dedicated provisions for climate adaptation in its annual budgets, despite facing the brunt of climate change – it was listed as the seventh most vulnerable in the Climate Risk Index 2021.
MGNREGS is a poverty alleviation programme implemented pan India.
Contemporary migration is complex and diverse.
The world is grappling with intensifying climate change — temperatures are rising, weather patterns are changing, and extreme events and natural disasters are becoming frequent.
The relationship between climate change and migration is intricate.
Human mobility in the context of environmental impacts has been gaining increasing attention.
The first two articles of our ‘Under the Weather, On the Move’ blog series talked about the various considerations in conceptualising climate migration, and why migration is usually not the first adaptation strategy when facing a combination of climatic and non-climatic risks.
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.
