August 2012 Blog Posts (10)

DEVELOPMENT DEFICIT

ODISHA CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN: WHAT NEED TO BE DONE! AND WHAT CIVIL SOCIETY SAYS:

BY SUDARSHAN CHHOTORAY

Climate Change is a reality today. Extreme events will be normal in the future. More conversations needed with communities for real understanding and this real understanding and Integration will lead to the real resilience. As on today not much information is available on the methodology of local level adaptation. All local level strategies are…

DEVELOPMENT DEFICIT

BY SUDARSHAN CHHOTORAY

We need to review and revisit Odisha Climate Change Action Plan

The hurry on which Odisha Climate Change Action Plan (OCCAP) has been finalised without adequate consultation with all stake holders has raised a many eyebrows. Though Government of India has already announced the inclusion of all State Action Plans and National Plan on Climate Change under 12th Plan it needs to mention here that, state plans like…

Climate Change is alarming global issue but same time South Asia region is witnessing its worst impacts in from one decade. Tsunamis in Srilanka, Floods in Pakistan and Bangladesh and drought in some parts of India are the facts of this climate crisis. Whole South Asia region in tropical atmosphere so Pakistan, India and other countries are witnessing the late monsoon rains these days. Due to impacts of extreme weather, the rain pattern changed in this region.

 It was a time when…

There is every justifiable reason to sustainably harness the resources of River Okavango right from the Source highland regions of Namibia down through the kgalagadi flats. The communities that lie along this mighty river have a symbiotic attachment to the wealth of the giant river. Whatever the level of development of the various economic activities here about,this river plays such fundamental influence on way of life,nature and desposition of the environment,weather patterns and human…

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SUBODH GAUTAM

CHAURIKHARKA (Solukhumbu), April 5

A new member has arrived in Nou Chhiring Sherpa’s home in Phakding village of Solukhumbu district. For those aware of the Sherpa tradition here, they need not ask anybody nor do they need information from Sherpa’s neighbors or relatives, to know that a birth has occurred in thehouse.

In Sherpa communities of this remote village, located in the lap of Mount Everest – a UNESCO World Heritage…

By Hamza Kyeyune

hamza.kyeyune@gmail.com

As the campaign to mitigate climate change gathers pace, Makerere University Business School (MUBS) through the office of the University Mullah in conjunction with International Climate Champions has joined the struggle through launching the GREENING MUBS DAY. Addressing the congregation during JUMA Prayers at MUBS during Juma prayers,…

In a new proposal by the European Commission, has been announced a structural reform of the ETS with a twin-track approach to fixing Europe’s depressed carbon market.

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