India

Region: India

India:

Projects
32
Resources
89
Stories
165
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Project : Subnational climate compatible development - Learning from CDKN’s experience

CDKN is working on a range of initiatives to share learning from our programme to date. One of these is an initiative to capture and synthesise lessons learned from our work at the sub-national level in developing countries.

Feature
4th February 2013
Challenges from the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit CDKN's Asia Director, Ali T. Sheikh, puts forward six challenges to climate compatible development that emerged at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS)
Event
1st February 2013
Join CDKN at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit CDKN is hosting, together with the Asia LEDS Partnership, an open session at the Dehli Sustainable Development Summit on ‘Learning from Green Growth Initiatives in Asia’ on Sat 2nd Feb.
Resource
28th January 2013
Inside Story : Creating market support for energy efficiency: India’s Perform, Achieve and Trade scheme Through the Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme, India has become the first developing country to adopt an energy efficiency trading scheme that uses market-based mechanisms. This Inside Story reports on the lessons which can be learned from the design & planning phases.
Feature
14th January 2013
Overcoming hurdles to 'green' construction in India Kriti Nagrath from Development Alternatives in India reflects on what it will take to get alternative technologies in the construction sector into the mainstream.
Feature
8th January 2013
Catalysts of change in India Following on from yesterday's story on CDKN's work in Asia, we look at one of the projects - run by SEEDS in India - in more detail with the aid of stunning photographs. The project aims to help a village in Leh become more climate resilient.
Completed
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Completed
Project : Sheltering from a gathering storm

Provision of shelter following disasters is one of the largest recurrent cost for governments and relief organizations, and the failure of shelters to protect people from hazards is a significant risk. Improving shelter design is therefore central to reducing hydro-meteorological disaster risk and supports adaptation to climate change.

Feature
7th January 2013
Is India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change up to Scratch? A recent study looking at the design of the eight missions under India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change aims to provide policy makers, academics and researchers, civil society groups and others an evaluation of the country’s climate missions as perceived by experts in the country.
Feature
24th December 2012
The road ahead for State Action Plans on Climate Change in India Sunder Subramanian, an independent climate change expert and advisor to Indian State Governments reflects on the opportunities and challenges for the State Action Plans on Climate Change
News
10th December 2012
CDKN Asia publishes country snapshots CDKN has released a set of country and regional snapshots featuring highlights of projects and achievements from Asia over the last quarter.
Feature
4th December 2012
Indian cities learning from 'Sandy' In an article for the Times of India, CDKN/Panos South Asia Journalist Fellow, Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, writes that Indian cities have much to learn from New York's disaster response and limitations.
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Completed
Project : Shubh Kal (a better future) - from information to knowledge and action

The Shubh Kal project aims to strengthen community knowledge and voice on climate change impacts and adaptation by increasing their input into local research and policy dialogues and enabling communities to share their experiences of adapting to climate change.