Gender, disasterrisk reduction, and climate change adaptation: a learning companion

Oxfam International

This Learning Companion aims to provide Oxfam programme

staff with the basis for incorporating gender analysis and

women’s rights into Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and

Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) programming.

Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

are priorities for Oxfam GB, as are  strengthening women’s

rights and gender equality.

India: Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2007
By Ministry of Environment and Forests
This assessment provides information on India’s
emissions of Greenhouse gases (Carbon Dioxide [CO2],
Methane [CH4] and Nitrous Oxide [N2O]) emitted from
anthropogenic activities at national level from:

Energy;

Industry;

Agriculture;

Waste;and;

Land Use Land Use Change & Forestry (LULUCF).

Bio-regional Notes: India's Coasts

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

By Centre for Education and Documentation

As we take a look closer at the coastal regions,

one realizes that it is the marginalized populations

that are directly affected by sea-level rise, storm
surges, environmental damage and

diminishing marine bio-resources. It is then that the

ethical implications of the choices of the paths of
development (and consequent climate change) become clear.

An India That Can Say Yes:

A Climate Responsible Development Agenda

for Copenhagen and Beyond

By Praful Bidwai

The book subjects India’s policy and negotiating position

to a critique, analyses the  National Action Plan on

Climate Change and its eight Missions, and also

proposes alternative equitable approaches to

climate change.

Money for Nothing!!!A People's Perspective

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol is flawed in its design because it provides a means for industrialized countries to buy their way out of their

responsibility by supporting projects in the South. In other words, earn carbon credits to gain the license to pollute!

Yet, CDM has come to stay because of its lucrative implications. Already India hosts the secondlargest number of CDM projects registered after China.

Climate Change: Politics  and facts
By Centre for Science and Environment 2009

This is a new book from Centre for Science and Environment that attempts to demystify the subject

through a set of comprehensive and concise factsheets. A one-stop storehouse of information on climate change,
as it is an aid towards understanding and appreciating the danger that stares us in the face.


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Exploring links between HIV and climate change
By This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , UNAIDS, New Delhi

The State of World Population 2009, report released recently by UNFPA argues that success of the global response to AIDS will rely on tackling not only the encroaching virus itself but also the affects of climate change such as food and water shortages, growth in poverty and an increase in natural disasters. .

He Knew He Was Right
By John and Mary Gribben

In 1975, a New Scientist article by a British scientist put forward the idea that Earth’s living forms act as regulators that control conditions on the planet. The piece described the interactions between them as chemical feedback that keep our world at its ecological best.

The idea appealed to hippies but enraged scientists and even the Church which described the idea of chemical
feedback as “non-Christian ecological satanism”. James Lovelock, the scientist in question, named the system after the Greek goddess of Earth and called it the Gaia theory.
He Knew He Was Right, an authorized biography by John and Mary Gribbin, gives a good sense of the British scientist’s independent spirit. Two groups of readers will benefit from this biography: those who have read on Gaia and those who have little or no knowledge of Gaia and may even be environmental sceptics. This book will introduce them to the man, to Gaia and give a readable background to the indisputable trends that confront us.

THE ROOTS OF GLOBAL WARMING :
Are we on the brink of an eco-catastrophe?


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THERE IS LITTLE HOPE HERE
By Himanshu Thakar

The South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People

The PM's National Action Plan on Climate Change will help neither the climate, nor the poor. It lacks urgency, democracy and equity perspective...

The document provides detailed recommendations from Civil Society groups. The central message of the analysis of the process and content of NAPCC is reflected in the title: There is Little Hope here. NAPCC lacks proper perspective, urgency and sincerity in taking note of contributions of various sectors and classes in India’s current and future emissions. The plan is not based on any democratic process of assessing least cost options before the society. While there are some positive suggestions in the plan, they are not sufficient in inspiring confidence since we have yet to see effective action or action plans to ensure their implementation. Unless a bottom up, participatory process for formulation of a fresh climate action plan is urgently taken up, it seems we are going to miss an opportunity to push for a people friendly and environment friendly development path.

SCALING URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES

Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges considers the full range of urban environmental burdens, from the local environmentalhealth burdens typically associated with urban poverty, to the urban-regional pollution and resource depletion burdens typically associated with motorisation and urbanisation, to the global ecological footprints typically associated with urban affluence. Considerable attention has been devoted to scale issues inherent in emerging global problems, including most notably  "Climate Change "

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"COUNTERING CLIMATE CHANGE: ISSUES & INITIATIVES"
- A Resource Kit

Climate change is altering our environment affecting agriculture, water availability, and sea-levels. It is increasing the intensity of natural disasters, the rate of species extinction and the spread of vector-borne diseases.
Those most vulnerable to climate change are the world's poor as they are often directly reliant on natural resources to meet their basic needs. They also have the fewest resources to cope with climate-related shocks.

There are many actions that can be taken now to help counter climate change and its impacts in India. It is critical to reach out to the most vulnerable people to help them adapt. It is also critical to mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases by improving energy efficiency and expanding renewable and clean energy technologies. Individually we can also act.