Climate Change

Sugarcane expert Shri Suresh Desai (from Belgaum, Karnataka)  is visiting Punjab from March 1st to 4th ,2010. He will deliver lectures on water efficient sugarcane farming. The workshop will have practical sessions too.

Time : 10.00 AM to 4.00 PM
Address : Jaitu village, Gurmail Dhillon Natural Farm , Faridkot

This is an International conference that intends to discuss the problems on water resources, biodiversity, climatic change and communicate the role of society in the present environmental scenario.

Organized by: The Bhopal School of Social Sciences,Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

The Jal Bhagirathi Foundation has been working for the past eight years with programmes in the Marwar region of Thar Desert to empower distressed village communities enabling them to revive the traditional community management systems and practices with special focus on creating social capital as sustainable means for bringing water security.

We know that the threat of climate change is real and urgent and we also know that combating this threat requires drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in the industrialized world.But as greenhouse gases are linked to economic growth, climate change requires the world to share growth between nations and people.

Xavier Institute is planning to conduct a National Seminar on 'Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: The Way Ahead', during 19th and 20th March 2010. The call for paper is attached herewith.

Kanpur, November 24, 2009: Shri Alok Ranjan, IAS, Principal Secretary, UP Urban Development and Environment, inaugurated the workshop organized by WWF India, Kanpur Nagar Nigam and IIT Kanpur.

Water is the primary medium through which climate change impacts will be felt by human populations and the environment.  Adapting to climate change will require adapting to changes in water availability and distribution.

                                                                               India Development Coalition of America