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The Cauvery - dammed and fractured

Inspite of the realisation that minimum flows are essential for rivers to maintain their health and biodiversity, water released from various dams in India continues to disregard minimum environmental flow requirements.

Posted on 23 Nov, 2022 03:58 PM

India is a dammed country. According to the National Registry for Large Dams (NRLD), in 2016 a total of 4877 dams were built in India and 313 dams were still under construction.

Cauvery river at Hogenakal, Karnataka. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos via Claire Arni and Oriole Henri)

Green nod granted to Centre’s ambitious Rs 72,000 crore project in Greater Nicobar Island

Policy matters this fortnight

Swati Bansal

Posted on 18 Nov, 2022 12:19 PM

MoEF grants green clearance to multi-development projects in Greater Nicobar Island

Havelock, Andaman Island. Photo for representation only (Source: Vikramjit Kakati from Pixabay)

India joins Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC) at COP27

News this fortnight

Swati Bansal

Posted on 17 Nov, 2022 01:33 PM

India joins the newly formed Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC)

Mangroves in Sunderbans (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

Improving community resilience in ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in India

Adoption of hybrid solutions - grey and green structures appropriate for resilience building

UNEP

Posted on 16 Nov, 2022 10:54 PM

Since 2019, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in-collaboration with Partners for Resilience (PfR) have developed and implemented scalable Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) models, working a

Healthy wetland ecosystems help in reducing disaster risks and managing climate risks (Image: Pxhere)

Supporting social businesses from rural India

IIMB’s NSRCEL and Yunus Social Business Fund join hands for social business financing

NSRCEL-IIM Bangalore

Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru (YSBFB)

Posted on 11 Nov, 2022 09:03 AM

NSRCEL- the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of IIM Bangalore, has signed an MoU with Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru (YSBFB), the pioneers in social business financing and scaling.

YSB’s mission is to promote social business as a sustainable alternative to long-term aid, bridging the gap between business and philanthropy (Image: YSB website)

Children demand ecological rights ahead of COP-27

Children say ‘Nothing about us children without us children’

PRATYeK

Posted on 07 Nov, 2022 12:51 PM

Ahead of the Conference on Climate Change COP 27 at Egypt, PRATYeK, a registered organization with UN ECOSOC status, known for its national child led-advocacy initiative NINEISMINE, hosted an online event NO COP OUT on November 4 and 5, along with coalition partner

Millions of children face the brunt of climate change in their day to day lives. There Is No Planet B (Image: Blaine O'Neill; Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC 2.0)

Protecting children from climate change impact not child's play

In 2020, 559 million children were affected by four to five heatwaves a year; numbers could increase four-fold by 2050, as per a report by UNICEF

Gurinder Kaur

Posted on 06 Nov, 2022 06:57 PM

On October 25 2022, UNICEF released a report titled "The Coldest Year of the Rest of Their Lives: Protecting Children from Escalating Impacts of Heatwaves".

Heat-related mortality is four times higher among children under 1 year of age than in persons aged 1–44 years (Image: Taqver, Wikimedia Commons)

Wheat sowing dates influences yields in Eastern Gangetic Plains

Study indicates that better management of the annual cropping calendar can pay dividends for food security

Posted on 02 Nov, 2022 07:51 PM

Wheat is a principal crop staple in South Asia with current cultivation extending across 36.1 million ha; around 73% of this area is in India where wheat provides approximately 21% of the aggregate food energy and 17% o

Greater adjustments to the annual cropping calendar are anticipated to increase wheat yield potential by an average of 0.84 t/ha (Image: Pixnio)

Climate Asia addresses concerns about climate change

A masterclass by Climate Asia on “Localisation of Economy from Climate Lens” talks of various aspects from the ground up.

Climate Asia

Posted on 02 Nov, 2022 07:38 AM

Last week,

Effects of climate change on this low-lying lands (UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe)

Slow disaster: Political ecology of hazards and everyday life in the Brahmaputra valley, Assam

This book by Dr. Mitul Baruah presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra Valley as a whole. This is an excerpt from the book.

Mitul Baruah

Posted on 31 Oct, 2022 10:13 AM

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

― David Harvey, The Limits to Capital, 2006 [1982]: 418

Floods are recurrent phenomena in Assam (Image: Mitul Baruah)

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