Tamil Nadu

The initiative on hill wetlands in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve is supported through this. The area is located at the junction of the Eastern Ghats and the Western Ghats, or Sahyadris, the two prominent mountain ranges that run almost parallel to the coastlines of Peninsular India and is home to indigenous forest people and is a rare repository of mountain biodiversity.

The Nilgiris is home to unique wetlands that are the source of sustenance of numerous animals and human communities. Wetlands are among the more important reservoirs of biodiversity that nature has painstakingly crafted over millions of years.

Organizers:

• Centre for Environment Education (CEE)
• South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)

Venue: Bharath Scout and Guide campus, Wenlock Park (opposite Triplicane Railway Station, Marina Beach, Chennai

Organizers:

Organizer: Tamil Nadu Science Forum

Venue: Hosur, Tamil Nadu

Description:

Southern Regional Workshop on Climate Change, is being organised by the Tamil Nadu Science Forum on behalf of the All India Peoples Science Network, New Delhi, with support from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and the Shakthi Foundation, New Delhi. 

The Workshop is part of a series of regional workshops aimed at motivating and training activists to create social movements aimed at mitigating and adapting to the galloping climate change. A total of around 50 scientists, resource persons and social activists from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry are expected to attend this event.

Venue: Thamukkam Ground, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

Topics:

• Impact of warming the globe–Scientific and social background
• Politics of global warming 
• Interconnection between present development model and warming the globe/deteriorating climate 
• Towards alternative development, initiating nature-friendly and human-friendly measures

In Kokkarapati village (TN), dilapidated public toilets cause difficulty, disease and humiliation.

Organizer: The Sugarcane Breeding Institute

Venue: Dharmapuri district Co-op Sugar Mills, Palacode, Dharmapuri

Description:

The Sugarcane Breeding Institute (of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research), Coimbatore is organizing a "Schedule irrigation, Save water" campaign in Dharmapuri district. The event is being organized under 'Farmers' Participatory Action Research Programme (FPARP)'.

  The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy draws on the experiences of the Tamilnadu Women’s Collective (WC), a state-level federation of women’s groups from 1,500 villages, in the context where communities all around the world are struggling to find ways to cope with changes affecting food and water security because of the phenomenon of climate change.

The report argues that many a times, new food and water security policies at the national and international level tend to be narrow, look at each of these issues in isolation and  undermine food and water security strategies adopted by individuals and households from marginal groups. Adaptation strategies to address food security focus almost exclusively on increasing agricultural production, while ignoring health and cultural aspects of the food being produced, and the role of agriculture as a means for rural viability.

Organizer: Industrial Waste Management Association (IWMA)

Venue: Chennai

Topics:

• Junior level (class VIII to X )
  
  • Recycling/Reuse of materials/waste products
  • Rain water harvesting
  • Methods to manage domestic garbage – starting from home
  • Water conservation