Karsten Sach, deputy director general, european and international environment policy, ministry for environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety, Germany
The first week of the climate talks (COP 19) at Warsaw saw developed and developing countries oppose each other on several matters including climate finance. As negotiations were on inside the National Stadium venue, activists and non-profits held demonst
Centre for Science and Environment has organised a unique poster exhibition called ‘Climate Talkies’, in Warsaw alongside CoP19. This is the only exhibition of its kind during the present UN climate talks. The posters represent 20 years of climate change
‘Climate Talkies’ has added a bit of zing to a climate conference which, at least till the beginning of its second week, has largely remained a lackluster exercise. Each poster then proceeds to talk about one year of negotiations, beginning with the 1992
Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General, Centre for Science and Environment, opened the exhibition and said, “Climate Talkies is our light-hearted and different way of looking at how negotiations have happened all these years”
Spread over 2,200 hectares of land in Mumbai’s suburbs, salt pans (flat expanses of grounds covered with salt and other minerals), surrounded by thick mangrove trees are the city’s last defence against ocean flooding as they act as natural buffers again
Each salt pan produces more than 500 tonnes of salt every year. But with land becoming dearer in Mumbai, the place occupied by these salt pans is being eyed by Mumbai’s real estate agents
The salt workers live in temporary dwellings, primarily made of bamboo and hay. There is shortage of drinking water, shelter, power supply and facilities like gumboots, sunglasses, tools and healthcare
The first week of the climate talks (COP 19) at Warsaw saw developed and developing countries oppose each other on several matters including climate finance. As negotiations were on inside the National Stadium venue, activists and non-profits held demonst
The first week of the climate talks (COP 19) at Warsaw saw developed and developing countries oppose each other on several matters including climate finance. As negotiations were on inside the National Stadium venue, activists and non-profits held demonst
The first week of the climate talks (COP 19) at Warsaw saw developed and developing countries oppose each other on several matters including climate finance. As negotiations were on inside the National Stadium venue, activists and non-profits held demonst
The first week of the climate talks (COP 19) at Warsaw saw developed and developing countries oppose each other on several matters including climate finance. As negotiations were on inside the National Stadium venue, activists and non-profits held demonst
Meera Pal’s house in Udvaya can be seen in the picture. Shivpuri is an area dominated by scheduled tribes (ST), mainly Sahariya. Almost 73 per cent of children admitted in the nutrition rehabilitation centre of the town belong to STs. With a catchment are
Two-year-old Draupadi (seen in the picture) is a moderately acute malnourished child from Mohammadnagar, a hamlet of Sahariyas on Gwalior-Jhansi highway and 15 kms from Udvaya. She weighs a little more than eight kg and gets to eat vegetables like potato
Two-year-old Draupadi (seen in the picture) is a moderately acute malnourished child from Mohammadnagar, a hamlet of Sahariyas on Gwalior-Jhansi highway and 15 kms from Udvaya. She weighs a little more than eight kg and gets to eat vegetables like potato
Two-year-old Draupadi (seen in the picture) is a moderately acute malnourished child from Mohammadnagar, a hamlet of Sahariyas on Gwalior-Jhansi highway and 15 kms from Udvaya. She weighs a little more than eight kg and gets to eat vegetables like potato
Udvaya lacks many facilities like good roads. People living in the region still look up to the Scindias as their rulers and have not reaped fruits of nation's economic development
Udvaya lacks many facilities like good roads. People living in the region still look up to the Scindias as their rulers and have not reaped fruits of nation's economic development
Rabina’s malnourished feet. According to the World Health Organization, children with severe acute malnutrition are among the most vulnerable people in the world. They are very thin and most of their fat and muscles having been used by their bodies to sta
Meera Pal, an anganwadi worker in Udvaya village in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district, campaigs against malnutrition. Educated only till class V, Meera finds it difficult to calculate the ratio between weight and age of the children in the village. For t
Fresh peanut crop, a nutritious food item, being roasted by the villagers of Udvaya. They, however, say that after the construction of Madikheda dam on the Sindh river, a lot of cultivable land in Udvaya and other villages has been submerged and they have
Fresh peanut crop, a nutritious food item, being roasted by the villagers of Udvaya. They, however, say that after the construction of Madikheda dam on the Sindh river, a lot of cultivable land in Udvaya and other villages has been submerged and they have