Resilience in Action: Implementing Locally-Led Adaptation in Bangladesh
Written By: Chaity Dev and Md. Jubaer Rashid Bangladesh, a country vulnerable to a wide range of climate-related disasters, such as tropical cyclones, floods, coastal erosion, droughts and landslides, has limited coping capacity or budget to adapt and respond to these disasters at the community level. However, communities in coastal, drought-prone and flood-prone regions are […]
Fostering Climate Resilient Water Security through Community Action in the Darjeeling Himalayas
Written By: Souhardo Chakraborty and Bedoshruti Sadhukhan “We need to make multiple trips on foot along treacherous mountain trails to small groundwater upwelling points, located 300 metres downhill, starting from 3 AM in the morning to collect water. If we delay then we must wait hours for groundwater to refill the well, because others would […]
Rising Temperatures, Rising Solutions: South Asia’s Path to Heat Resilience
The year 2023 set a new record for global temperatures with the hottest year on record, with predictions for 2024 to bring even more severe conditions, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) announced in a report in March 2024, issuing a ‘Red Alert’ to the world. While March 2024 happened to be the 10th straight month […]
CDKN Policy Dialogue Calls for Including Peri-Urban Spaces in Governance, Regional Planning
ICLEI South Asia, the Climate Development and Knowledge Network (CDKN) Asia Coordinator, organised an online Policy Dialogue on Peri-Urban Ecosystems – Potential for a Planned Approach in India on the 25th of August 2020. Field experts from various organisations participated in the dialogue and gave their feedback on the brief prepared by the CDKN Asia […]
Water-Energy-Food Nexus – Applying an Inter-Sectoral Lens to Meet Growing Needs
Ritu Thakur of the CDKN-Asia team and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia, describes how an inter-sectoral development approach in Nashik, the “backyard of Mumbai”, is helping meet people’s growing needs for water, energy and food. High paced urbanisation along with population and economic growth has put tremendous pressure on existing resources especially water, energy, […]
Gender Equity in Climate Finance – Why Does it Matter?
Aditi Paul, CDKN Asia and ICLEI South Asia, argues that climate finance provides too good an opportunity to miss, as a vehicle for advancing women’s wellbeing and development and righting some of the deep gender inequalities in society. She recommends how the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of climate finance projects could be improved to […]
Blended Finance for Climate and Food Security – The Potential of the Farm Sector
Reducing poverty in Asia, even in countries like India, Indonesia or others with relatively high per capita income, remains a challenge. Key priority areas like food and water security, gender equality, tackling climate change, and making cities more liveable can help eradicate poverty. By Aditi Paul Reducing poverty in Asia, even in countries like India, […]
Indian Infrastructure Must Be Climate-Proofed to the Core
Bedoshruti Sadhukhan of ICLEI South Asia argues that climate resilience must be not just a guiding principle, but the focus of new infrastructure projects in India. Despite increased awareness, planning decisions and infrastructure designs still do not address resilience adequately. Investing in infrastructure to meet the population’s development needs remains a top priority for the […]