India Needs Two-Pronged Strategy to Deal With Future Pandemic Exigencies
The efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine will always be challenged and compromised as the Coronavirus keeps evolving with immune escape…
Centre Lists Districts Vulnerable to Climate Crisis in India’s First Weather Hazard Atlas
Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2022 To recognise and honour the invaluable contribution and selfless service rendered by…
Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy
Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy Edited by Ravi Kanbur and Henry Shue Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and…
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
It is time to shift the conversation and empower everyone to play a role. All stakeholders need to work closely…
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
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
The Coalition of Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), a global partnership of 27 countries initiated by India in 2019, will be…
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:…
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
The COVID pandemic has brought death and economic destruction to all parts of the globe, underlining why effective action on…
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…