बिहार: विकास के हाशिये पर खड़ा दलित
बिहार में दलितों की आबादी लगभग 16 प्रतिशत है. भारत के सभी नागरिकों के लिए कानून के समक्ष समानता और मूलभूत मानवाधिकार और नागरिक अधिकार सुनिश्चित करने वाले संविधान को अपनाने के छ: दशक से अधिक बीत जाने के बाद भी इनके प्रति भेदभाव बदस्तूर जारी है.
Business As Usual Plus Some Actions
An Alternate Look at India's INDC. Climate change has been described as defining crisis of the century. Since preindustrial times the global temperature has risen by around 1 degrees Celsius. This has largely been the result of anthropogenic interventions mostly driven by burning of fossil fuels and...
A Collective Intervention BEYOND COPENHAGEN
The intervention is a joint collaboration between a number of CSOs having different skills and expertise and working with a range of primary stakeholders, policymakers, NGO networks and media. It involves a number of organizations with varying experience ranging from grassroots works with farmers and...
Climate Change; Voices from the Rain-fed Areas - Public Hearing
A public hearing on the ‘impact of climate change in rainfed areas’ was organized on 4th November, 2009 by Oxfam and its allies at B.S. Mehta Bhavan, HCM- RIPA Jaipur. The event hosted by CECOEDECON and PAIRVI was attended by representatives from 12 states of the rain fed areas of the country.
Climate Crisis and State Response in India
With its SAPCC engagement experience, BCPH organized a 2-day round table consultation at the India International Centre in Delhi, on Nov.2 & 3, 2011. Among those who took part were three categories of people 1) those groups & individuals who have seriously engaged with both the climate change issue and...
Climate Extremes and Loss and Damage
Uttarakhand witnessed an unprecedented tragedy in June 2013. Thousands of human lives were lost along with immense damage to property, livestock and livelihoods. Though people and the state of Uttarakhand received sympathy and support for relief from across the globe...
Climate Finance and Climate Justice
Ordinarily, the 'subjects' of climate & finance are from two different worlds. The understanding that "anthropogenic", or more specifically certain types of economic & industrial pathway that some countries & societies have followed over particularly the last 100 years...
Critical Issues of climate change and climate change governance
Though the greenhouse gases were first ‘officially’ recognized as ‘pollutants’ and contributing to the warming of the Earth (resulting in the change of its reasonably stable climate regimes) only as late as 1972 – at the Stockholm environmental conf...
Engaging with Climate Crisis
Expectations from this COP are very low world over. One of the reasons is that Warsaw COP and Peru are only pit stops before the big one at Paris in 2015, where a new framework is supposed to be arrived at. Through these two preceding...
Give Life a Fair Chance
The 20th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and CMP 10 (Conference of Parties serving as Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol) will take place during 1st to 12th December in Lima...
Investigating a Climate Disaster
Uttarakhand witnessed an unprecedented tragedy in June this year. Thousands of human lives were lost along with immense damage to property, livestock and livelihoods. Though people and the state of Uttarakhand received...