India

Region: India

India:

Projects
32
Resources
89
Stories
165
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13th November 2012
Biological Diversity - a ‘climate’ question? Bhawana Luthra and Elizabeth Colebourn from LEAD India and CDKN reflect on the link between biodiversity and climate change in the wake of the 11th COP of the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD).
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28th October 2012
Why we need farming and forests in our cities In the wake of the catastrophic damage inflicted on cities by Hurricane Sandy and other recent extreme weather events, Ir. Henk de Zeeuw, Senior Advisor, International Network of Resource centres on Urban Agriculture and Food security (RUAF Foundation) calls for increased urban forestry and agriculture to increase cities’ resilience to climate change.
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Project : GLOBE Climate Legislators Initiative - Phase 1

The GLOBE Climate Legislators (GCLI) is dedicated to advancing the legislative response to climate change in 33 key countries and by doing so to help create the political conditions for success in the UNFCCC negotiations under the Durban Platform.

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14th October 2012
Assessing the impacts of disasters on children On the International Day for Disaster Reduction - Mudasser Siddiqui, South Asia DRM Specialist from Plan International explains the unique vulnerabilities of young people when impacted by climate-related disasters.
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Project : Disaster and Climate Resilience Across the Eastern Himalayas

The projects aims to provide a regional model for the integration of climate change information into risk reduction and rural development planning at the landscape scale that takes stakeholder perceptions, aspiration, and constraints more fully into account while bringing DRR and CCA processes into closer interaction within institutional and policy spaces.

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Project : Getting climate smart for disasters

This researches the institutional barriers and opportunities in achieving convergence of DRR and CCA in the context of development, poverty and vulnerability reduction.

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Project : Understanding flood risk and resilience in eastern India

This project studied the systemic factors contributing to flood resilience under changing climate conditions in Gorakhpur district. It sets to identify practical measures for integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) into planning.

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Project : Multi-stakeholder action to mainstream disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation

Taking the examples of flash floods in Leh (2010) and Bramer (2006) districts in India, the project examines the policy positions adopted by district planners post disaster, and assesses the extent to which these integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) concerns into long term recovery and development planning.

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Project : Climate change: addressing heat-health vulnerability in rapidly urbanising regions of Western India

This research develops an innovative set of strategies, including an early heat-health warning system, to be implemented by local government officials in the city of Ahmedabad, in Gujarat state, India.

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Project : Inside stories on climate compatible development

CDKN helps developing countries to design and deliver climate compatible development. When decision makers in government, business and civil society speak to us about their aims and needs, they often ask about ‘best practice’ in other countries or, indeed, mistakes to avoid.

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Project : Building climate change awareness in the South Asian media

With CDKN’s support, Panos South Asia launched the South Asia Climate Change Award (SACCA) Fellows Programme to improve media coverage and public debate around climate and development in South Asia.

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Project : Promoting low-carbon construction in rural India

Public housing and infrastructure developments across rural and semi-urbanised India are rarely designed to be ‘climate compatible’. Climate-compatible development addresses the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, use fewer resources and make buildings that can withstand weather-related disasters.