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Mayuri Purkayastha Out of 33 districts, every year 28 districts are devastated by floods which cause tremendous damage to lives and livelihoods. Growing up in Assam was different in a lot of ways. It was far removed from the concept of the concrete jungle in many ways, one could see green hillocks f

Biodiversity , Climate , Economy , Environment , Food , Forests , Human Rights , Monitoring , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 08/02/2020

IUCN unveils Global Standards for nature based solutions

The new IUCN Global Standard will help governments, business and civil society ensure the effectiveness of nature-based solutions and maximise their potential to help address climate change, biodiversity loss and other societal challenges on a global scale. “The world is looking for durable and ef

Cities , Climate , Environment , Science & Technology , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Water / 08/01/2020

Nature-Based Solutions to 21st Century Challenges

Nature Based Solutions (NBS) come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can be applied across marine and terrestrial environments to solve a variety of societal challenges including mitigating climate change and enhancing the liveability of cities. In the 21st Century, society is faced with a variety

Disasters , Environment , Health , Human Rights , Opinions , Sanitation , Sustainable Development , Water / 07/29/2020

Why alluvial flood plains of north Bihar, India need alternative sanitation system

Flood is a recurring threat to the sustainability of open defecation free status in Bihar. Unique toilets, built on elevation, can show the way ahead The Bihar deluge is here again: Water levels in several rivers have risen dangerously and breached embankments at many places. North Bihar is the

COVID-19 , Environment , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Opinions , Refugees , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 07/27/2020

Ensuring right to water during pandemics and beyond

It is the 10th anniversary of the recognition of human rights to water and sanitation and our approaches to ensuring water and sanitation during this pandemic should therefore be based on a rights regime and people should be provided with water that is safe. It should be supplied by adhering to the

COVID-19 , Environment , Opinions , Sustainable Development , Water / 06/29/2020

Recover Better With Nature: Personhood Rights to Rivers can help

It is now clear that when humans shut down, rivers flow healthy. The evidences that we have gathered during the Covid19 lockdown should be lesson enough for us to reimagine our approach to save our rivers. Reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and abatement of water & air pollution have

Aid , Environment , Food , Forests , Human Rights , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Water / 06/11/2020

Human interest story: Strengthening livelihoods, Restoring the rainforest in Philippines

Arianne Gijsenbergh This human interest story tells the inspiring tale of Linda Deconlay, a member of the indigenous Talaandig Tribe, who is participating in reforestation work implemented under a project titled Ridge to Coast, Rain to Tap project. These activities not only restored the ecological a

COVID-19 , Environment , Food , Human Rights , Opinions , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 06/05/2020

OPINION: COVID-19 IS TELLING US THAT IT’S TIME FOR GLOBAL SYSTEMS CHANGE — STARTING WITH WATER

Claudia Sadoff & Mark Smith To survive the coronavirus pandemic and minimize the adverse impacts of future shocks, we must address global water insecurity and inequality now. COVID-19 has, like nothing before, exposed the fragility of the systems that underpin our globalized world, revealing jus

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , COVID-19 , Environment , Forests , Governance , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 06/01/2020

An open letter for saving the Environment of Maldives

Concerned about the continuation of irreversible, environmentally destructive and debt financed projects in Maldives during the current Covid-19 global public health crisis with consequent economic recession, Save Maldives Campaign wrote an open letter to the Speaker of the Parliament For the attent

Biodiversity , Climate , COVID-19 , Disasters , Environment , Food , Forests , Health , Human Rights , Migration , Water / 05/26/2020

After Cyclone Amphan, broken houses and rotting fish

Joydeep Gupta Residents of the Sundarbans wonder why they are rebuilding, when their lands have been encroached for years by the seas, and their huts that will fall down in the next cyclone “What is the point in rebuilding our house,” asks Santanu Haldar, “when we know it will be torn down in

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