India

Region: India

India:

Projects
32
Resources
90
Stories
166
Feature
22nd February 2012
Gender and climate change - making the connections Georgina Aboud, Gender Covenor for the BRIDGE programme at IDS, discusses the gendered dimensions of climate change and highlights some stories of innovative practice from India and Colombia to create local, sustainable and gender appropriate responses to its impacts. She also introduces a new Cutting Edge Pack from BRIDGE that maps how sensitive responses to climate change can be transformative for both women and men.
Feature
3rd February 2012
The Challenge of a Low Carbon Economy Guest blogger Sunita Narian, Director of the Center for Science and Environment, writes about the initiatives taken by the government of India to meet the challenges of a low carbon economy.
Event
1st February 2012
Watch the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) live online The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit summit titled ‘Protecting the Global Commons: 20 years post Rio’ is a landmark event in the run-up to the Rio+20 Conference to be held in June later this year.
Feature
18th January 2012
Agriculture and climate change in India B.Venkateswarlu, Director of India's Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, writes about the measures needed to make Indian agriculture more climate-resilient.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : REDD-net Asia: Dialogue with governments and civil society organisations in Asia and the Pacific

REDD-net Asia Pacific will extend its knowledge-sharing activities to policy-level engagement in order to raise awareness of REDD+ issues and help connect local level concerns and experiences to national/regional processes.

Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Building the future with climate change and development professionals: CDKN capacity building

This project supports climate and development-related research by 14 MSc students from across the globe.

Resource
8th December 2011
INSIDE STORY: Transforming India into a solar power India has launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission to address its intertwined challenges of energy security and climate change.
Feature
28th September 2011
Reporting climate change in India Indian Journalist Manipadma Jena describes the challenges of reporting on climate change in India and the South Asian region.
Resource
28th June 2011
Interview with CDKN's CEO, Sam Bickersteth Watch CDKN's Chief Executive, Sam Bickersteth, being interviewed by Climate Change TV, on CDKN's mission and strategy. He introduces CDKN and gives case studies from the Punjab and Rwanda to show how we work and what we hope to achieve.
Feature
7th June 2011
SRREN recommendations - challenges for Asian countries The IPCC's Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) resonates with the aspirations of many developing countries in Asia. But one thing's for certain: every Asian country will have its own distinct approach to taking up the recommendations.
Resource
1st December 2010
REPORT: Regional implications of the AGF recommendations: Asia - Précis The United Nations Secretary’s High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance recently reported on ways to raise US$100 billion per year for climate change investment in developing countries by 2020. This summary highlights the report’s key implications for Asia.
Resource
18th November 2010
POLICY BRIEF: Moving forward on climate change planning - lessons from Orissa In this brief, Merylyn Hedger and Virinder Sharma look at Orissa, the first Indian state to produce a climate change action plan (CCAP). This policy brief outlines the process that produced the CCAP in just six months.