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Share The National climate vulnerability assessment report released today has identified Jharkhand, Mizoram, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal as states highly vulnerable to climate change. These states, mostly in the eastern part of the country, require prioritization of adaptation interventions, the report pointed out. The report titled ‘Climate Vulnerability Assessment for Adaptation Planning in India Using a Common Framework’, which identifies the most vulnerable states and districts in India with respect to current climate risk and key drivers of ...

Sagar Island, India – In April last year, 17-year-old Rani Khatun, a resident of Sagar Island in the Sundarbans, would spend most of her day in school, preparing for the upcoming board exams. She wanted to be a teacher one day. Less than a year later, Khatun is a school dropout and a victim of domestic violence after a forced underage marriage. Sundarbans, the world’s biggest delta, is a 10,000 sq km (6,213 sq miles) dense forest of tidal mangroves, straddling India’s eastern coastline and western Bangladesh, opening into the Bay of Bengal. Crisscrossed by rivers, it is home to nearly 4...

The deputy chief executive, Dylan Williams MORE details have been revealed on Anglesey Council’s masterplan to try to achieve carbon neutrality within a decade. Last September, the authority formally declared a climate emergency after backing a motion urging the need for action. On the back of that vote, it has endeavoured to work towards a carbon neutral public sector by 2030, which includes working with other councils on a nationwide basis, with an initial budget of between £400,000 and £600,000 being mooted. Labour councillor John Arwel Roberts’ successful motion asked the ...

The Sahel Alliance will hold its second general assembly in N'Djamena, Chad on Monday, 15 February 2021. The meeting will take place on the side-lines of a summit for the G5 Sahel countries— Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad—as well as France. The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) played an active role in the formation in July 2017 of the Alliance, an international cooperation platform to spur development and stability in the Sahel region. To foster closer synergy with development partners, the Sahel Alliance has invited the African Development Bank to lead a working group...

The African Development Bank: a strategic partner in developing resilience and sustainable energy in the Sahel region