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Moderate climate risk to Bengaluru Moderate climate risk to Bengaluru BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / Updated: Apr 19, 2021, 06:00 IST First-ever Bengaluru Urban was ranked 224 and categorised as moderately vulnerable to climate risk in the first-ever climate change ranking report in India. The Department of Science and Technology released the Climate Vulnerability and Risk Assessment at the national level using a common framework report from the year 2019 to 2020, that studied the effects of climate change across states and districts. Based on 19 indicators, the states and districts are cat...

Environmental Justice in the Middle East: Activism, Resistance, and Decolonisation (Video) Part of Decolonising LSE’s 2020-21 Event Series This roundtable focuses on environmental justice, analysing the ways in which approaches to environmental studies—across disciplines ranging from international law to geography and urban planning—have traditionally overlooked and under-emphasised the critical roles of communities directly impacted by environmental injustice. Focusing on environmental justice struggles in locations including Palestine, the Golan Heights, Lebanon, and Iraq, this conve...