Workshop on
Aviation and Climate Change - Challenges on a global and equitable solution
organized by LAYA- INECC and Bread for the World, Germany

9-10 May, 2013

Aviation is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector and the most climate-intensive form of transport.  This workshop aims at providing an overview of current developments to curb emissions from international aviation. Analysing the role of India in this debate, the workshop will particularly focus on the questions of equity.

Detailed note and schedule

 

NE workshop

Challenge of Climate Justice: The North East Perspective

April 21-22, 2012
Inspiration Centre, Guwahati

The developed countries are responsible for almost finishing all our natural resources. Now they are preaching solutions. Similar is the situation in the north east with regard to Main Land India. We need to seek small scale solutions that are appropriate and relevant.

Traditional practices – with right scientific inputs, Traditional crops for food & nutritional security, linked to local markets and Rich agro-biodiversity with ample scope for niche cash cropping could make a difference to the current trend.

 

Minutes, Presentations & Proceedings, News Reports

   

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  • eco-systems
  • the science
  • politics

 

 

Forest

  •  Vulnerability Assesment: Forest Eco system
  •        Sanjay Khatua, Freelancer, developmental research & communication The perspective of this participatory assessment was to understand the people’s perception of change in the climate, facets of vulnerabilities and the factors responsible.

 

Mountains

Climate Vulnerability in North Western HimalayasMukesh Ray, Neeraj Doshi, Nishant Alag and R.Sreedhar, Environics Trust, 2011 This research is the Himalayan component of INECC coordinated researches across different eco-regimes in the country. The purpose of the study is to provide an overview, understand peoples perceptions and identify potential opportunities for action which could be undertaken by the civil society and the State. The Himalayan Mission on Climate, the Water and Agricultural Missions can incorporate the suggestions made for reducing risks and building resilience.

 

Coastal The Coast isn't Clear: Climate Change & India's Coastal Communities

Climate change in coastal regions has of late taken
a very serious turn for the worse, with its
consequences going beyond damage to the coast.

There appear to be other widespread
environmental disasters in the form of
displacement of human settlements due to drastic
temperature change and increase in sea-levels that
are plaguing our world. Such issues only highlight
the fact that those who have least contributed
to the problem are the biggest victims of these
adverse environmental consequences.
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Vulnerabilities of fishing communities to Ecological and Climate change
Study by Institute for Community Organization Research (ICOR) supported by INECC

The study is about the impact of local ecological changes, global warming and coastal flooding on fishing communities in the Mumbai suburbs of Manori, Gorai and Uttan (administratively, Uttan is in the neighbouring Thane district) and also met officials of state fishers’ organizations, state fisheries officials and environmental and marine fisheries scientists to supplement the community surveys.

 

 

Urban

Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Marginalised Communities: A Pilot study in Bangalore Slum areas

CED and INECC embarked on a pilot study to test the relevance of the
known parameters of urban vulnerability to situation on the ground, and relate it to people’s perception of the issues involved, and then develop preliminary initiatives for intervention on vulnerability and resilience, which is in line with what people consider as important and urgent.

 

Mumbye

The financial capital of India could face damages worth Rs 35,00,000 crore by 2050 because of climate change. Between 1901 and 2007, it registered a mean temperature rise of 1.62°C...

 

Arid

  Vulnerability and Adaptation Experiences from Rajasthan & Andhra PradeshPolicies and stategies towards developing a climate resilient farming and livelihood security system.

 

 

Semi Arid