December 2010
Volume 1 No. 2
Green Governance
Green Gover nance Climate Change as if People Mattered!
Message from our Founder Dr. Samuel Paul Founder Public Affairs Centre
When a major crisis occurs across the globe, it is but natural that investigation of the problem and its remedies are pursued at the macro level. All countries and their governments need to be convinced of the severity of the problem and there has to be a consensus among them of the actions to be taken. Countries depend on “Big Science� and global assessments to assist them in the process. Climate change is the latest example of a global problem that fits this pattern. Global phenomena such as climate change or a major financial crisis manifest themselves also through their impacts at the individual and community level. In a financial crisis, as we have seen in recent years, many persons lost their jobs, and numerous firms went bankrupt. Some governments have been severely affected, and are still facing a crisis of confidence. The moral of the story is that global crises do not necessarily have the same impact on every one. Some citizens, families and communities are more adversely affected than others. It is by recognizing this problem, understanding its magnitude and dimensions and finding remedies in specific contexts that we are able to contain the damage being done on a global scale. While global agreements and actions are taken, governments have also tried to stimulate economic investments in the affected regions of the countries. Thus, action at the macro and micro levels are required when global crises erupt.
Are there lessons here for those working on climate change? While scientific investigations of the problem and its remedies must continue on a global basis, there is a need also to examine and tackle the impacts of this major phenomenon at the local level, especially in vulnerable areas. Here again, the starting point has to be investigations at the ground level to study and document what exactly is happening to the local communities and their livelihoods as a result of large forces such as climate change. It is an approach that can help soften the blow to vulnerable populations and regions of a country. Needless to say, there are some caveats to be kept in mind. First, observations of changes occurring over short periods need not always indicate long term trends. Without data that cover long periods, it is difficult to draw credible conclusions on the directions of change and their intensity. Nevertheless, if local communities face serious problems of loss of livelihoods or other similar adverse impacts, they need to be dealt with. The problem lies in attributing them to the climate change phenomenon. This raises the second issue of attribution. Adverse impacts on local communities could arise from other short term shifts or patterns that are not linked to climate change. Alternatively, a mix of factors that includes climate change may be at work. Unbundling the mix and determining the significance of climate change may not be an easy task. At the least, it will call for a rigorous analysis of longer term data and other developments in the affected areas, using methods that go beyond surveys and case studies.
About us Public Affairs Centre (PAC) is a not for profit organization, established in 1994 dedicated to improving the quality of governance in India. The focus of PAC is primarily in areas where citizens and civil society organizations can play a proactive role in improving governance. Environmental Governance Group works at PAC to address governance issues in the environment and climate change affected areas . For more details visit www.pacindia.org
Editorial Team R. Suresh, Director, PAC J. Jangal Prarthana Rao Kuldip Gyaneswar
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Editor’s Desk
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Project Updates
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Green Review
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Green Library
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From the Editor’s Desk
Mr. J Jangal Editor Key outcomes from COP16, Cancun, Mexico
Establishment of a new ‘Global Green Fund’. Establishment of an Adaptation Framework. Establishment of a Technology Mechanism and a climate technology center and network. Formal linkage for the first time of country mitigation pledges (both developed and developing) to a ‘COP’ decision. Elaboration of Mitigation, Reporting and Verification (MRV) and International Consultation and Analysis (ICA) procedures for both developed and developing countries. Agreement on a concrete REDD+ (deforestation) process. Various work plans or programmes to develop all of the above. For further details on the conference please visit: http://cc2010.mx/en/
It is becoming evident that the Climate Change affects people and it hits the poor hard, especially women who make up the majority of the world's 1.5 billion people living on less than $1 a day. Since the poor tend to live in areas vulnerable to rising sea levels, severe drought and fierce downpours, climate change is expected to worsen poverty and health problems as well as trigger large-scale migrations. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) published "State of World Population 2009 — Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate," which focuses on other aspects of the climate change issue such as how climate change affects people and what kinds of policies, apart from energy efficiency and industry-related policies, should be pursued to mitigate the effects of global warming. In short, the report says that climate change's influence on people is "complex — spurring migration, destroying livelihoods, disrupting economies, undermining development and exacerbating inequalities between the sexes." It puts world population in 2009 at 6.829 billion — an increase of 79.70 million or 1.2 percent from 2008. World population topped 6 billion in 1999. It predicts that world population will reach 9.150 billion in 2050, meaning that 2.3 billion additional people will need food and water. Average population growth from 2005 to 2010 has been 0.3 percent for more developed regions, 1.4 percent for less developed regions and 2.3 percent for least developed countries. Average global temperature has risen 0.74 oC since the late 1800s, but the report says the temperature could rise by as much as 6.4oC by 2100, noting that, since 2000, human-caused carbon dioxide emissions have increased four times faster than in the previous decade. As the report notes, "the vast majority of the world's population growth today occurs in developing countries, whose contribu-
tion to global greenhouse-gas emissions is historically far less than those of the developed countries." At the same time, "emissions from some large developing countries are now growing rapidly as a result of their carbon-intensive industrialization and changing patterns of consumption, as well as their current demographic growth." The need of the hour is to empower people — especially the poor and the vulnerable communities, who must adapt to the changes caused by climate change and the policies developed to mitigate climate change. In this backdrop we at the PAC’s Environmental Governance Group initiated an innovative intervention to develop a citizen centric monitoring tool called Climate Change Score Card in the climate change affected areas. To begin a project is being implemented in the coastal area of Gulf of Mannar with the funding support of ANSA- SAR and the field support by People’s Action for Development (PAD), an NGO working in the districts of Ramanathapuram and Thoothukudi. We reported the progress of the project in our first issue and it is a pleasure sharing the updates in the current issue. We will continue to post our project experiences. It is very heartening to note that there were good responses from various sections of people on our first issue of the news letter and there are many who volunteered to contribute with ideas, articles, experiences, people’s stories, data and information to enable PAC - Env.Gov.Group to bring upfront all the people centric governance issues on Environment and Climate Change and find ways and means through various forms of Good Governance measures. We the people at PAC’s Env.Gov.Group would be happy to have your continued support with knowledge contribution to enable and empower all those concerned in addressing issues of environment and climate change impacting the people.
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Great Assault On The Traditional Fishers! Death knell has struck heavily since the tsunami swept the Indian coast. Ever since then, the traditional fishers have been facing unfold miseries and threats from both the central and state governments. Bills, laws, notifications, bilateral agreements, nuclear treaties, ASEAN FTAS, five year plans etc, are the ones which threaten to confiscate the coast, commercialize and industrialize coastal stretches and privatize the fishing itself. They even signed agreements to import fish from ASEAN member nations at the cost of the Indian fishers’ livelihood and letting the FDI or private giants to enter into even fish vending and marketing. In the name of conservation too, the fishers are the sufferers and letting the real offenders and polluters go scot free. The provisions, in the wild life acts, only penalize the poor and marginalized fishers and permit the violators to go on violating and destroying ecosystems endlessly . Under the pretext of conservation, fishing is restricted and strictly monitored, prohibited, traditional fishing grounds are lost and fishers are alienated and deprived of their traditional and customary rights. Development has no limits and boundaries. Every hazardous project is permitted right on the coastal beaches and even within 12 nautical miles of territorial waters. Tourism is promoted along the coast and in the Gulf Of Mannar’s 21 “protected islands “at the cost of fishers’ livelihood. The native inhabitants are pushed to the extreme kinds of suppression. They become strangers and aliens and their very existence along the coastal stretches becomes a threat to nation’s security. The unpaid and the natural coastal border security forces, the fishers, have been accused of carriers of anti national elements. Various false charges are being levied on the fishers like anti nationals, smugglers, wild life criminals, poachers, ecosystem destroyers, to drive them away from their homelands and livelihood spaces.
The coast is being nuclearised and militarized to help India surge ahead to become the super power. Minerals along the coast are indiscriminately and illegally mined so as to be poised for a higher growth and self reliance in the so called energy sector thus triggering rampant sea erosion and rendering coastal people as environmental refugees. The construction of new multipurpose ports under PPP mode & BOOT system and the expansion of the existing commercial harbors endanger the livelihood spaces so far have been utilized by the native fishers and which accelerate the erosion process and trigger massive displacement and migration shortly. Under various welfare and housing schemes, fishers are being displaced and made to suffer and lose their coast. The lands adjacent to fishing hamlets have been confiscated by private players and real estate brokers. Patrolling by security forces is intensified in the coastal waters not just to block the entry of the terrorists but to nab the fishers the daily bread winners as wildlife criminals. The traditional fishers are being penalized but the deep sea hunters, marine looters, and the highly mechanized wild life criminals are patronized and provided subsidized provisions and grants. The country is aiming at food security, energy security, and national security at the expense of the most deprived and exploited populations of the native inhabitants like the fisher folk. In the near future any development and every thing can be promoted, constructed and implemented both along the coast and with in the coastal waters even up to 12 nautical miles where the traditional fishers have a stake. There will be lot of hindrances for fishing and for the fishers’ habitations in the days to come! The fishers should realize such threats without any further delay and resist and defeat such threats and onslaughts by building networks and movements. Let us declare that the coast, seas and the fishing belong to the traditional fishers only and not to any other ‘stakeholders’.
Mr. Pusparayan is the convener of Coastal Peoples Federation (CPF) operating in Ramanathapuram, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli & Kanyakumari Districts of Tamil Nadu
“Let us declare that the coast, seas and the fishing belong to the traditional fishers only and not to any other ‘stakeholders’.” Mr. Pushparayan
Coastal Erosion—An aftermath of rampant illegal sand mining Loss of Social Space for the fishers
For further details on activities of CPF please visit: cpfsouth1.blogspot.com
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Co-management as a tool for better exi stence in Coastal areas
Mr. Vivekanandan Advisor to the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies (SIFFS)
Did you know? A 1m rise in average sea level would permanently inundate about 1091 square kilometers along the Tamil Nadu coast leading to a loss of `61,15,471 crores Replacement value of infrastructure (ports, power plants and major roads) impacted by sea level rise in Tamil Nadu to be between `47,418 and `53,554 crores
In this short article, the author wishes to share a few success stories on the principle of Co-management in the coastal areas of India which led to remarkable changes in the lives of the vulnerable people living in these areas. Co-management’ as defined is “a situation in which two or more social actors negotiate, define and guarantee amongst themselves a fair sharing of the management functions, entitlements and responsibilities for a given territory, area or set of natural resources” The formulation of Marine Fisheries Regulation Acts in all states of India is a result of nationwide struggle of small fishermen under the banner of NFF in 1979 The introduction of Six week “uniform fishing ban” during breeding season is result of Kerala small fishermen’s 7 year struggle demanding a monsoon ban on trawling Policy restricting “foreign vessels” is result of nationwide fishermen struggle against Joint Ventures in 1995-96 Fight against pollution as a result of which the first factory to be closed down in India due to pollution was in Goa in1973 due to fishermen struggle. A recent example of the same is the closing down of the Sterlite
Industries in the Gulf of Mannar area. Fishermen have been instrumental in stopping the process of sand mining in many areas; Kerala fishermen ensured that the proposal for deep sea mining for sand was stopped. Aquaculture Authority was set up as a result of fishermen struggle and civil society litigation on the issue of shrimp farms. Regulation on mechanised boats was introduced in Kanyakumari district as a result of fishermen movement In our earlier issue, the author had shared his views on the Community based management of coastal areas in India where he said that, to be able to effectively successfully promote community based coastal management, all the three parties – government, civil society and fishing communities need to work together to effect these changes. Adding to this he wishes to emphasize the impact that co management can create along with the CBM. He further goes to express his thought that “Fishing Communities in India have great capacity for management but without integrating them in a system of comanagement, no effective management is possible”
From Goddard to the Gulf of Mannar
The Quest for Information
Mr. Pavan Srinath Programme Associate, Public Affairs Centre
In the 1960s British Television series The Prisoner, a character known only as ‘Number 2’ famously said, “We want information… information… INFORMATION!” It is now 2010, in what is often dubbed the age of Information . In the pursuit of climate science in India, the song still remains the same. Climate change research requires large sets of data just at the onset. While government
institutions in India regularly collect and maintain meteorological data, there is still a hegemonic attitude when it comes to sharing and dissemination of it. The Indian Meteorological Department, the ultimate authority on climate data in the country, is a prime example of this. The IMD stores meteorological information for the last 100 years for almost all parts of the country, but gives it out only at a price. Recently, the
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The Quest for Information... Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh lamented the same, urging various departments to make data available for free to researchers.
“Those very maps and classified data that we are denying to our researchers are freely accessible on Google� Jairam Ramesh, Environment Minister, India
Free Climatic Data Sources Temperature Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center
Rainfall Indiawaterportal
Sea Level / Tide Gauge Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level , UK
As someone responsible for analyzing meteorological data to support findings on the field in the Gulf of Mannar project, I discovered this at my own peril. Prior work at PAC had compelled us to buy smaller sets of temperature data from the IMD, and these had cost us dearly. Estimates put the cost of obtaining the temperature value for a single month from a single year to be around `15. For attempting good climate analysis, at the minimum I was looking for 5-6 decades of monthly temperature values for the Gulf of Mannar region. At the going rate, this worked out to a whopping `90,000! Dismayed by the incredible costs of obtaining basic climate data from official sources, we decided to make the most of what was freely available. After extensive searches on the web, going through public sources of data, to our rescue came an unlikely hero: the Goddard Institute of Space Studies. This offshoot of NASA had
climate change as one of its thrust areas, and showed us some hope. Not only does the GISS do its own research in developing models and gridded data sets, but the institute also made public the temperature data from individual weather stations it used in its research. To our delight, one of the stations happened to be Pamban, an island on the northern tip of the Gulf of Mannar, just off the coast. The GISS had made public monthly temperature data for Pamban for a whopping 120 years! What would have probably cost us nearly `200,000 to obtain from the IMD was now available for free at the click of a button. So long as one knew where to click. The data from the GISS has been key to our understanding of how climate change is occurring in the Gulf of Mannar. Thus far, we have found that the Gulf of Mannar area is warming up at a rate faster than the world and national average, and that the rate of warming has gone up alarmingly since the 1970s. We are now working to analyze more data and trying to combine the analyses with our findings in the field.
An Indian State opens up climate data In a bid to promote climate research in the state of Rajasthan, the state government released station-wise daily rainfall data from 1973-2008 for all districts in the state. Rajasthan being a desert state, considers water as a critical commodity. This is an unprecedented disclosure of quality climactic data in a country where all data is guarded closely. The India Water Portal, run by Arghyam, has been instrumental in validating the data and helping in its dissemination.
but not available for free to researchers. The IMD charges a stiff tariff on any data that research institution hopes to obtain from them. It is our estimate that the data made free by the Rajasthan water resources department is worth over `70 lakh!
States like Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu need to follow suit and make critical climate data public and free in order to encourage the development of local climate science. India is a country that is highly vulnerable to climate change and it is not an appreciable The Indian Meteorological Department has a fact that we are still quite clueless about the large repository of long-term climate data, local effects of this global problem.
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PROJECT UPDATES The project has been progressing at an exciting pace with a lot of insights and learning happening each and every day. The following are some of the activities undertaken during this quarter.
Project Sensitization Workshop A sensitization workshop was conducted on 14th of October at Ramanathapuram involving various stakeholders from the Government Departments, NABARD, MSSRF, CBOs, Federations, and NGOs. This workshop aimed at sensitizing the stakeholders about the project and bringing their support onboard to carry out various activities. Government Departments extended their support in terms of climatic data, technical expertise, IEC Materials. Agencies like NABARD offered their support in organizing awareness programmes, disseminating information, sensitizing farmers. Civil Society Organizations like MSSRF offered to make their training expertise and resources accessible, support in dissemination of information through their Village Resource Centre Network and Video conference facilities. Tamil Nadu Rural Reconstruction Movement and Peoples Movement for Development extended their support in terms of analyzing regulations applicable to the area.
Field Visit by Team from ANSA—SAR Mr. Gopakumar Thampi, Chief Operating Officer and Ms. Munyema Hasan, Coordinator - Knowledge Management and Learning of ANSA—SAR, Bangladesh visited the project area from 13th to 16th November covering Thoothukudi, Ramanathapuram and Rameswaram and interacted with the field team, discussed with various stakeholders at ECRD, MSSRF
and NABARD. The project progress was shared with them and received their feedback. Visits to villages were organized to know about the status of communities and their livelihood. Discussions were held with the palmyra tappers, farmers, fishermen, sea weed collectors and laborers on the issues being faced in their respective livelihoods and how climate change is contributing to it. Visited the Village Knowledge Centres being run by PAD and MSSRF. Discussion was held on spatial referencing the activities with support from Google and the way forward. The visiting team appreciated the effort of PAC and PAD in undertaking this project.
Interaction with Palmyra Tappers
“This project of PAC is a very innovative and powerful one” Mr. Gopakumar Thampi Chief Operating Officer ANSA—SAR, Dhaka
Livelihood Mapping Livelihood mapping exercise using PRA tools was done in 15 sample villages to get a comprehensive understanding on the livelihood scenario along the coast. The reports are being analyzed.
Activity Mapping Mapping of activities impacting the coastal environment was done for Thoothukudi and Ramanathapuram. The activities are covered under the broad categories of Infrastructure Projects (Power Plants, Roads, Port etc), Industries (Sterlite, SPIC etc), Aquaculture (Shrimp Culture, Sea Weed Culture, Salt pan etc) and Tourism. The maps are being developed further with emphasis on their attributability to climate change and their impact on livelihoods. Geo referencing of these activities is also being explored.
Internship Mr. Aiyappa K. G from School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore completed his internship and submitted a report titled “Analysis of policy instruments applicable to Gulf of Mannar”.
Interaction with Farmers
Progressing in Spatial Mode Efforts are being made to collaborate with agencies to get their support in creating fusion maps and other geo-spatial applications for enhancing the outreach and impact of our environmental governance initiatives.
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PEOPLES VOICE Tampering with livelihoods? ‘Tapping’ for rights
The Farmers Feeling the heat of climate change
Woman drying fish Earning her livelihood
Discussions with the fishermen The neglected group
14th November,2010: We 25 families have been living in this small hamlet. More than 20 families are involved in Palmyra tapping, an occupation practiced for generations. Being a seasonal activity we tap palmyra between February and August and the remaining months we do work as wage labourers. Some families work as labourers for the fishermen; some engage in cutting wood (prosophis juliflora wood) which is found in large tracts of fallow lands and is burnt to make charcoal. Some families also work in the salt pans in nearby areas. Palmyra tappers’ start work as early as 2AM in the morning and end at 3PM in the evening. Each tapper has to climb the tree thrice a day covering a minimum of 30 and a maximum of 70 trees to process the shoots and tap the juice from the tree. The female members of the family involve themselves in processing the juice by boiling it to make palmgur (jaggery). Over the last 10 -15 years there has been significant reduction in the quantity of Palmyra shoots tapped due to various
reasons. Decrease in rainfall and increased salinity of the ground water are some of the major deterrents of the trade. Moreover most of the families owe debts to the moneylenders who are largely the palmgur traders. These moneylenders (traders) by lending money bind the palmyra tappers to sell the produce only to them at prices determined by them. Hence, the return is very less. If we sell immediately we get `280- 320 for 10 kg of palmgur, if we could stock and sell after the season then we could get `1200/- per 10 kgs. We do not get any support from any of the government agencies to safeguard our livelihoods. We are unaware of policies, programmes of the government, if any, to protect Palmyra tapping as a livelihood. With frequent change in the wind pattern, rainfall and increasing saline intrusion we are very doubtful whether we will be able to continue tapping. Future seems to be uncertain with the declining interest of our children in palmyra tapping. Palmyra tappers Palammal Kudiyiruppu Village
Sea – Sawing with power for livelihood rights
Participation shows the way Reverse Osmosis plant setup with Community participation
The future palmyra tappers Yet Uncertain future
14th November,2010: We the fishermen are facing a peculiar situation these days to basically sustain our livelihood. We have to deal with four different agencies of the government viz. Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Trust, Coast Guard, Forest Department and Customs Department. Each of them poses different restrictions and regulations in the name of conservation which prevents access to our traditional occupation of fishing and thereby posing as a big threat to our livelihood. We the poor fisher folks are unable to
bear the pressures from these power centres and are getting cornered from different angles. On one side unpredictable wind, erratic rainfall etc have reduced our catch and on the other side governance systems are making our traditional fishing inaccessible. While mechanized trawlers are being given free access to sea, the traditional fishermen are being crushed under the weight of ‘power’. Our future is certainly bleak. Fishermen Keelamundal Village
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GREEN REVIEW Gender and Green Governance— Bina Agarwal
Mr. Kuldip Gyaneswar Programme Associate, Public Affairs Centre
Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199569681 496 pages
The Author: Bina Agarwal is Director and Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India
In discussions on environmental economics, the gender dimension was always given a miss. Studies earlier touched upon the absence of women from the environmental institutions or the commons. In this book titled Gender and Green Governance, the author tries to throw more light on the political economy of women’s presence within and beyond community forestry. Based on primary data on community forestry institutions in India and Nepal, the book tries to answer some basic questions on the impact that is possible with the presence of womenfolk in the governance of environmental commons like forest. The book is divided into three parts with a total of 11 chapters. The first part outlines the potential of presence of women in community forestry. The second part describes the impact of their presence and the third shows the future path to be treaded. In the first part, ‘the potential of presence’, the author throws light on the historical alienation of women from environmental decision making process. Women in South Asia were generally kept away from the decision making process owing to a number of ethno-cultural factors. Moreover the environmental history doesn’t throw any light on the gender dimension of environmental governance. As seen towards the early part of twentieth century with the emergence of democratic institutions, women were assured a space in the decision making bodies. But many of the institutions being political and not environmental a lot was needed to be done to decentralize institutions of environmental governance to enable women to participate. With institutional decentralization later, women’s inclusion followed but to a limited extent. The second part of the book presents the analysis of the primary data on Community Forestry Institutions (CFI) in India and Nepal. The 6 chapters in this part statistically describe the impact that is possible by just mere increasing the number of
women in local institutions, in terms of influencing participation, rule making, conservation and distribution. It was observed that, more the avenues for participation of women in the executive committee of the CFI, better would be their participation in green governance. The other inference which also emerged was that the participation of women in rule making for the CFIs led to better management and conservation of resources which could be sustainably used in the future. As regards to the violation and rules and penalties imposed, the book brings out very clearly that with greater women presence in green governance lesser would be the violations but violations relating to timber for men and firewood for women stand out as exception. However there is a notable gap between the perceptions and actual cases of reported violations where perception is gender biased for women and supportive for men. And it is true that there is a positive gender effect on conservation of common pool resources when women are allowed to effectively participate in green governance. The last part of the book concludes the arguments and observations and throws light on the modalities and ways of enhancing women’s presence in environmental management structures. This part banks on the statistical evidences from the second part by linking them to the larger circle and discourse of gender and green governance. Having observed the positive gender impact in managing the environmental commons the author feels it appropriate at this stage to link them with tiers of governance where environmental policies are framed and implemented. The book very truly gives a clear picture on the changes and impact women’s participation could bring to green governance. But it doesn’t end with participation only but envisages that gender-inclusive green governance would result in empowerment of women and this bridges politics with environment.
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GREEN LIBRARY Climate Change and India: A Sectoral and Regional Analysis for 2030 This new report provides an assessment of impact of climate change in 2030s on four key sectors of the Indian economy, namely Agriculture, Water, Natural Ecosystems & Biodiversity and Health in four climate sensitive regions of India, namely the Himalayan region, the Western Ghats, the Coastal Area and the North-East Region. The Report has been prepared by the Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment (INCCA), a network-based programme that brings together over 120 institutions and over 220 scientists from across the country to undertake scientific assessments of different aspects of climate change. Full Report: Click here or visit http://moef.nic.in
SEA LEVEL RISE—Impact on Major Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Land along the Tamil Nadu Coast This report concentrates on the impacts of sea level rise on coastal infrastructure, ecosystem and land in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It aims to highlight the financial implications of sea level rise on existing and proposed infrastructure along the Tamil Nadu coast and to provide thereby an “early warning” of the implications of indiscriminate development close to the shoreline
New Arrivals in our library Gender and Green Governance – The Political Economy of Women’s Presence within and beyond Community Forestry - Bina Agarwal The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan India Climate Change and the Global Commons by A. Damodaran Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman A Vast Machine by Paul N Edwards
Published by: Centre for Development Finance (CDF), IFMR and Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras Full Report: Click here or visit http://www.ifmr-cdf.in
Conservation, Conflict and the Governance of Fisher Wellbeing – Analysis of the introduction of the Gulf of Mannar National Park and Biosphere Reserve This paper examines the conflicts which have emerged in the Gulf of Mannar, India, particularly, but not only, in relation to the recent implementation of a marine national park and a biosphere reserve. It makes use of two complementary bodies of research experience: work on Wellbeing in developing countries and Interactive Governance The paper also underlined the prevalence of natural and human diversity in the Gulf of Mannar Full Report: Click here or visit http://www.wellcoast.org
'Beyond the Tipping Point?' is a documentary film about climate, action and the future debate. To request a free copy, please write to beyondthetippingpoint@gmail.com
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Blog The group has developed a blog titled “Green Governance” as an interactive database on environmental governance. The blog would keep the readers updated on Progress of various projects being undertaken by the group Climate Change literacy and awareness Recent reports and articles on Environmental Governance and Climate Change Book Reviews Climate Change and Environmental Governance events around the world Climate Change related media ( Videos, Pictures, Presentation etc) Environmental Governance News Web resources on Environmental Governance This blog can be accessed at greengovernance.blogspot.com
Through the Lens
International Training
Climate Change and Sustainable Local Development The Hague | 16 - 21 October, 2011
Speakers at the Project Sensitization Workshop
Speakers at the Project Sensitization Workshop
Project Sensitization Workshop underway
This course will focus on what local governments can do to promote green growth and manage local resources. For further details click here or visit— www.thehagueacademy.nl/ training-programmes
Meeting stakeholders
Activity Mapping underway
Team from ANSA-SAR discussing with the project team
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