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Cities need to handle climate-displaced people with dignity

Cities, no doubt, are aspirational and most people want to move into them for upgrading their stands of living. However, a lot of these immigrants will be coming due to distressed conditions and hence neither they nor the city authorities will be prepared to handle them. In recent times, many urban

We must recognise cities as waterscapes

and Ajaya Dixit Recurring floods in major cities point to need for moving away from land-centric urbanism Chennai is flooded. The north-east monsoon that has been hovering ominously over Tamil Nadu has brought with it the highest volume of rainfall within 24 hours in the last five years. It has also

Cities need net-zero commitments as climate induced internally displaced people keeps increasing

Women and girls make up over half of the world’s IDPs, 5 million IDPs are living with disabilities, an estimated 2.6 million are elderly, and over 30.5 million are children and youth. As world governments sharpen their negotiation skills to bargain for better deals for their respective countries a

How to meet climate and SDG goals together for cities

Each city should have two plans ready within a year. One, a SDG plan and two, a climate action plan Cities are growing by leaps and bounds. Currently, almost 55 percent of the global population lives in cities.  This figure is estimated to grow to 68 percent by 2050. In this decade, which is also

Cities need to plan for accommodating people displaced by climate change

In the next three decades, it is expected, humanity would have turned an exclusively urban species.  By then almost 80 to 90 percent of people would be living in urban areas.  At the moment, cities in the Global South are growing much faster than they did in industrialized countries 100 or more ye

Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?

Ambika Chawla Multi-stakeholder partnerships that include displaced people in the process show promise for helping overwhelmed communities deal with an influx of climate migrants from rural areas. When the rains never arrived in the East African nation of Somalia in 2016, nor in 2017, hundreds of th

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development failing in its gender framework commitments

Fidanka Bacheva-McGrath Evidence of meaningful implementation of the Gender Action Plan for EBRD and GCF’s Green Cities Framework – not found Knowledge is power. Informing women and men about the opportunities and risks of development projects should be the first step to empowering them to prote

Another Indian city, Bhubaneswar, inching closer to a groundwater crisis

Pragati Prava The capital city of Odisha is inching towards becoming a semi-critical zone so far as the groundwater scenario is concerned. With groundwater extraction reaching 64% at this point of time, the city having a population of over 1.3 million may not take very long to exceed 70% usage or a

Cities , Climate , Disasters , Water / 11/22/2019
A slum after the storm!

How prepared are urban poor to face climate change induced disasters? On the 10th of November, the morning after cyclone Bulbul passed through Odisha coasts, the fear of the storm was still reflecting on faces of people residing in Pandakudia slum in the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.  We visit

Delhi air pollution: Environmental crisis must be seen in conjunction with politics for effective solutions

If things continue in the present manner, India will have all the top 10 slots for the most polluted cities in the world; Delhi, despite its international infamy in the global hall of pollution, is not even in the top 10 in India itself, judging by Central Pollution Control Board data The pollution

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