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28Oct 2024 by admin

Pre COP 29 Consultations

Climate Crisis

28th October, Bhopal. PAIRVI has been organizing pre cop consultation before each COP to discuss major issues, prospects, possibilities and challenges specific to that COP. This year a novel practice was initiated by organizing this Pre COP meeting in State rather than Delhi. The preCOP Consultation was organized in collaboration with the AIGGPA (Atal Institute for Good Governance and Policy Analysis, Bhopal), MP Council on Science and Technology and Narmada Samagra. The Consultation was graced with the presence of the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and several other dignitaries. More than 300 representatives from the government, CSOs, academic and practitioners participated in this consultation. The consultation published a report including the major expectations from Baku COP 29, which was released by Mr. Naresh Pal Gangwar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment,…

13Aug 2024 by admin

Youth Dialogue

Climate Crisis, Human Rights

13th August 2024, ISI, Delhi. PAIRVI organized a youth dialogue with Shehri Mahila Kamgar Union, a platform of unorganized workers in construction, sanitation and home/care. More than 25 youth from this platform engaged in an intensive discussion on climate change, reasons and drivers, impacts, actions to prevent climate change, how it affects their communities and how they can contribute more towards climate policy and action. The consultation also discussed developing community action plan and the youth expressed keen interest to develop an action plan for their community.

24Jun 2024 by admin

International Festival of Peoples Rights and Struggles

Climate Crisis, Human Rights, Sustainable Development

18th to 23rd June, Penang, Malaysia. International Festival of Peoples Rights and Struggles was organized in collaboration of many organizations led by Pesticide Action Network, Asia Pacific at Cititel Hotel, Penang. Other organizers included Asia Peasants Coalition (APC), Peoples Coalition for Food Sovereignty, Global Peoples Caravan, International League for Peoples Struggles (ILPS), International Migrants Alliance, and International Women’s Alliance etc. More than 530 CSOs and Peoples movements from all continents and 44 countries participated in this festival. The central theme of the Festival was “Unite, Resist and Triumph.” Peoples from all parts of the world shared their struggles and successes as well. Intense study workshops were organized on wide variety of subjects including agro ecology, food and farmers, environment, climate change, energy and renewable energy, human rights, war and peace,…

07Jun 2024 by admin

Consultation on Children and Climate Change

Climate Crisis

7th June 2024, YWCA, Delhi. Ajay K Jha was invited as a key note speaker in this consultation organized by India Alliance for Child Rights (IACR), Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and Bahai International House of Public Affairs. More than 50 children and Youth rights activists participated in the Consultation, which focused on bringing children and youth’s concerns in the climate conversations, policies and programmes. Ajay K Jha focused on youth activism and engagement in climate negotiations. He emphasized that though lot of young people and children are participating in the climate negotiations (globally) and climate conversations (nationally), however, this has not led to cre4ating an agency of children and youth in policy making or their interest being addressed in the climate action. This also cautioned children and youth against…

30Mar 2023 by admin

Discussion on Climate Change and Water Crisis

Climate Crisis, Human Rights

A discussion on climate change and water crisis was organized at Mahabodhi Society of India, Bodhgaya on the occasion of Niranjana (Phalgu) Festival organized by Niranjana River Recharge Mission on 23rd March 2023. This two-day programme began on 22 March on World Water Day and concluded on 23 March. PAIRVI participated and facilitated a special session on climate change and water crisis on the second day. The Leelajan River originating in Chatra district of Jharkhand becomes Niranjana in Bodh Gaya, Bihar and later called Falgu in Gaya. This river is considered most sacred for Hindus as well as Buddhists. This perennial river has now become seasonal, flows only during the rainy season, and remains dry during the rest of the period. Large number of people including water activists, environmentalists, social…

23Dec 2022 by admin

Training of Stake holders, farmers groups and partners on climate crisis and sustainable development issues

Climate Crisis, Sustainable Development

Jaipur. PAIRVI was invited to provide an update on global regional and national developments on climate change and sustainable development issues. The meeting was organized by CECOEDECON on the occasion of its Annual day, where more than 150 farmers, women farmers (federations), partners and other stakeholders were invited. Ajay K Jha represented PAIRVI and apprised the audience of the state of affairs on climate change (urgency and scale) and the sustainable development goals (covid 19 pandemic set back). The emphasis of his presentation was that there is a very small window of opportunity available now if the global rise in temperature by the end of the century has to be kept below 1.5 degrees Celsius. It requires that global carbon emission must peak by 2030, emissions must be halved by…

05Dec 2022 by admin

COP 27: Preparation and Participation

Climate Crisis, Sustainable Development

Pre-COP 27 Podcast series: A four-episode podcast series was released before COP 27 with a focus on the history of the conference of parties (COP) and expectations from COP 27. The language of the podcast series is Hindi but the episode 'expectation from the COP 27' is available in English also. Episode 1: Brief History of COP (Part-I) (Hindi) Episode 2: Brief History of COP (Part-II) (Hindi) Episode 3: Expectation from COP 27 (Hindi) Episode 4: Expectation from COP 27 (English) COP 27 Preparation Call, online, 12th Sept; The preparatory meeting was organized to finalize logistics and fine-tune preparation towards the COP 27 and COP side events. The meeting was attended by PAIRVI, CECOEDECON and other participants in the COP 27. Peoples Assembly, online, 21st Sept: In parallel with the…

17Oct 2022 by admin

IPF Meeting

Climate Crisis, Human Rights

Phuket, 27th to 30th September 2022. International Peoples Front was launched by a number of organizations coming together to form the IPF at Phuket. IPF is an anti imperialist front to further peoples struggles at all fronts and against all reactions. Ajay K Jha made a presentation on climate imperialism and how front can contribute to peoples struggles in COP 27.

23Sep 2022 by admin

HLPF Review

Climate Crisis, Sustainable Development

Online: A review of the HLPF 2022 was organized by ADA wherein more than 50 organizations participated from various regions. Ajay K Jha provided a comprehensive review of the HLPF 2022. He also provided key inputs in the Review of the HLPF 2022 organized by the APRCEM on 2nd September. HLPF2022_whither the Promise of the Agenda 2030 Asia Pacific Perspective on the Sustainable Development for HLPF 2022

09Aug 2022 by admin

LDCs for NDC Consultation

Climate Crisis

Jaipur: The Consultation on Locally Determined Choices for Nationally Determined contribution was organized by CECOEDECON in collaboration with INECC at Swaraj Jaipur. The consultation discussed local adaptations and innovations in energy and food security and water to support NDCs. Ajay K Jha spoke in the inaugural and underlined a number of initiatives in food and energy in various Indian states which has potential for scaling up and contributing significantly to energy and food security and towards the achievement of Nationally Determined Contributions. The inaugural panel also had Dr. Priyadarshini Karve (INECC), Soumya Dutta and Deepesh Gupta (UNFPA).

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