Climate Conversations – Helping Women Gain a Voice on Climate Change
Alertnet: What are the gender dimensions of climate change? As a starting point, we know that women and men do not experience climate change equally. In many developing countries economic constraints...
View ArticleUpdates On Uttarkashi Cloudburst and Flashflood 2012
Plan India/ SBMA: On August 3rd and 4th night incidences of cloudbursts occurred in Uttarkashi area. It was around midnight when suddenly people noticed increasing water level with debris in the...
View ArticleAgricultural Intensification Promotes Gender Equity In Nepal
CCAFS (CGIAR): In Nepal, the involvement of men and women in agriculture is starting to change. “Before, women used to tend to the household work, while the men engaged themselves in the agricultural...
View ArticleCloud Burst: Disaster in Uttarakhand India-Updates and Photos
On 13th September 2012 night in Chwanni, Mangoli and Kimana villages of Okhimath block in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand (India), heavy rains completely inundated over 4 villages and eroded 2 more...
View ArticleTestimonies Of Livelihood And Agriculture Losses In The Mountains
Mountain Voice: In a series of Mountain Voice, the Climate Himalaya team captured the voices of mountain people from the western Himalayan region of India. Our team came across the real situation while...
View ArticleWomen Are The Foot Soldiers Of Climate Change Adaptation – Expert
Alertnet: In 2006, when the Asian Development Bank (ADB) decided to launch a multi-million dollar rural water project in eastern and north central regions of Sri Lanka, there was one overriding...
View ArticleClimate Migrant Remittances Could Help Adaptation – Experts
Alertnet: Migration linked with climate change is more likely to involve a steady step-up in existing patterns of movement around the world than the sudden surges of desperate refugees many governments...
View ArticleWomen Are More Vulnerable To The Impacts Of Global Climate Change
Agencia: Socioeconomic and cultural factors increase the vulnerabilities of the female sex to disasters caused by extreme climate events, says Mexican researcher and IPCC member. Women and girls...
View ArticleWomen On The Frontline Of Climate Change-Pakistan
The News: In a tattered mud-and-twigs hut, some 16 kilometers away from Jati Tehsil in Thatta district, Hanifa lights up her cigarette confidently telling us she can handle a natural disaster if it...
View ArticleExtreme Weather Hits the Poor First – And Hardest
IPS News: The old adage ‘nature is the great equaliser’ no longer holds true in countries like Sri Lanka, where the poor bear the brunt of extreme weather events. Gamhevage Dayananda, a farmer from the...
View ArticleReport Highlights Hazardous Changes To Climate
The News: Pakistan is facing serious threats due to climate changes fast taking place particularly in mountainous regions of Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalaya, it is learnt. “The carbonaceous filth has...
View ArticleBiodiversity Protection Needs Community Input
Scidevnet: A pledge to increase support for biodiversity targets in developing countries is welcome, but care for indigenous people is vital too. This month’s meeting of the 11th Conference of the...
View ArticleNo Success For REDD+ Without Understanding Possible Impacts
PHYS.org: No success for REDD+ without understanding possible impacts on forest biodiversity and people. The world’s rapidly dwindling forests should be valued as more than just “carbon warehouses” to...
View ArticlePolluted Ganges A Major Source Of Cancer In India
Ganga is considered the sacred river and the deep bond that the people of India share with this spiritual entity is immense. Now this bond is making many pay a high price, after being diagnosed with...
View ArticleWhat Women Want From Doha
Outreach: Dr. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, CEO of Food Agriculture Natural Resources Policy Advocacy Network and spokesperson for global agriculture coalition Farming First Women are the fountain of life....
View ArticleWomen Take Centre Stage On First-Ever Gender Day
CoP18: Conference hears from women on their role in tackling climate change and poverty. Women were the focus at the UN Climate Change Conference with the first-ever Gender Day of the yearly event at...
View ArticleSolar Mama Shines As Beacon Of Hope For Her Community’s Future
CoP18: Illiterate Grandmothers Become Solar Engineers: Incredible Story of Solar Mamas. Rafea Anadi appears almost lost within her long, black veil. Short of stature and slightly bowed, she seems she...
View ArticleHow Climate Change is Affecting the Children of Bhutan
Huffingtonpost: Growing up in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, I would often see crows perched on nearby trees and on the rooftops of our homes. We would chase them as they tried to pick up food that...
View ArticleWhy Climate Change Is Not An Issue With Muslim Preachers
Dunya News: At Friday prayers in Qatar s most popular mosque, the imam discussed the civil war in Syria, the unrest in Egypt and the UN endorsement of an independent state of Palestine. Not a word...
View ArticleClimate Change Impacts On Mountains: Time For Action Now
MP Press Release: Mainstreaming Rio+20 outcomes in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) processes for prosperous, resilient, and sustainable mountain ecosystems and communities” was...
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