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Detection and Alert for the City of Vadodara: A Space-Based Flood Approach for Mitigating Impacts on Critical Infrastructure and Reducing Economic Losses Uncategorized

Detection and Alert for the City of Vadodara: A Space-Based Flood Approach for Mitigating Impacts on Critical Infrastructure and Reducing Economic Losses

Shubharoop Ghosh, Margaret Glasscoe (PhD), Bandana Kar (PhD), Kristy Tiampo (PhD), David Green (Phd), Marina Mendoza (PhD), Charles Huyck.
Making Disaster Resilience Everyone’s Business Uncategorized

Making Disaster Resilience Everyone’s Business

It is time to shift the conversation and empower everyone to play a role. All stakeholders need to work closely…
Global & India

Emissions Gap Report 2021

The heat is on in the 12th edition of an annual series that provides an overview of the difference between…
COP26: Countries, Cities, Carmakers Commit to End Fossil-Fuel Vehicles by 2040 Global & India

COP26: Countries, Cities, Carmakers Commit to End Fossil-Fuel Vehicles by 2040

A group of countries, companies and cities committed on November 10, 2021, in Glasgow, to phasing out fossil-fuel vehicles by…
CDRI to Launch Infrastructure Resilience Project for Small Island Nations at COP26 Global & India

CDRI to Launch Infrastructure Resilience Project for Small Island Nations at COP26

The Coalition of Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), a global partnership of 27 countries initiated by India in 2019, will be…
Uncategorized

COP26 Negotiators Turn to Plan B as Climate Pledges Fall Short

After a week of climate talks in Glasgow at the COP26 Summit, negotiators are grappling with a fundamental math problem:…
Global & India

These Five Countries Have Advanced Tsunami Warning Systems

Building effective national tsunami early warning systems (TWS) is challenging due to the complexity of managing multiple factors involved in…
COVID Shines Light on Governance in the Americas and the Caribbean News

COVID Shines Light on Governance in the Americas and the Caribbean

The COVID pandemic has brought death and economic destruction to all parts of the globe, underlining why effective action on…
News

India Announces Net-Zero Target at Start of COP26 Summit

As the World Leaders Summit kicked off at COP26 on November 1, 2021, India announced it would be net-zero by…
News

India Struggles to Put Out Crop Waste Fires That Fuel Air Pollution

India’s efforts to reduce crop-waste burning, a major source of air pollution during the winter, by spending billions of rupees…
Uncategorized

Death Toll Crosses 180 in Nepal and India Floods

In October 2021, more than 180 people died after heavy rainfall triggered flash floods in Nepal and two Indian States…
News

2,360 Road Accident Cases Recorded in Gujarat Between Diwali and Bhai Dooj

The 108 emergency services in Gujarat recorded 2,360 road accident cases during the festive days of Diwali, Gujarati New Year,…