Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Post

The Global Report on #InternalDisplacement by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) has been released and the numbers keep rising. 26.4 million people were displaced due to extreme weather events and natural disasters with 3.7 million belonging to South Asia. As much as it's important to learn about the 'big numbers' associated with #HumanMobility due to #ClimateChange, it is also important to understand the complex socio-economic challenges faced by people due to #conflicts and #disasters. These large figures must not overshadow the local-level #vulnerabilities faced by people across the globe. Improvement in #predicting migration patterns, better understanding of the socio-economic and legal consequences of migration and displacement, and #financialsupport measures must be explored to build the adaptive capacity of people who are at risk of displacement. In such a scenario, the Risk Index for Climate Displacement is a welcome step by IOM Asia Pacific. Visit the website for the report here: https://lnkd.in/gSsyxEKq

Delve into our latest article, 'Assessing ground contamination to protect local livelihoods,' authored by Samuel James, our Senior Project Manager. Discover our impactful collaborations with the World Bank Group (WBG) and the Ministry of Environment (MoEn) in Iraq.   ➡️ Don't miss out, read the article now: https://lnkd.in/dvP5-vuR #rsk #iraq #environment #article #environmentalimpact

Extreme weather is becoming both more common and more unpredictable.   Investing in climate-resilient infrastructure is vital for safeguarding lives and livelihoods.   Learn how in UNDP's latest feature https://lnkd.in/dqVtdV7r

Contemporary wars due to destructive weapons affect civilians, especially children, and devastate the environment. I dream of global ceasefire and peace. "Residents of Gaza are experiencing acute respiratory infections, diarrhea, lice and scabies." #environment #health #sustainability #ceasefire #peaceandsecurity Read more https://lnkd.in/ez74TnyU

The conflict in Gaza is not just a human tragedy but also an environmental catastrophe. Currently, nearly 20,000 people, including over 7,000 children, are confirmed killed, with many more feared buried under the rubble, and almost 2 million displaced. Additionally, the use of white phosphorus munitions and heavy bombing are inflicting irreversible harm on the environment, further endangering human health. Amidst our ongoing global environmental crisis, this situation in Gaza underscores the critical need for cooperation and peace. We must ask ourselves, how much devastation must occur before we say #enoughisenough? In a time when unity and collaborations are crucial, the continuation of such destruction and disregard for life is both heartbreaking and incredibly alarming. #ceasefirenow #climatecrisis #gazacrisis

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Kindly help disseminate widely. Do join the Webinars with technical experts from #CDRI starting on 16 July 2024, helping to unpack the themes for the Call for Proposals : https://lnkd.in/g5tiXE-f #IRIS 2nd Call for Proposals (https://lnkd.in/gXm4sbkc): Open to all the 57 #SIDS Supports initiatives related to ‘#ClimateAction, #MainstreamingResilience and Strengthening #Data for #ResilientandInclusiveInfrastructure’ aligned to the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for SIDS (#ABAS) Projects can focus on #resilience in priority sectors- #Power/ #Energy, #Transport, #Telecommunication, #Health, #Water and #SocialInfrastructure across priority areas such as: 1. policy and regulatory frameworks, 2. project preparation, 3. resource mobilization, 4. implementation and management capacities and 5. strengthening data Proposal submission deadline is 31 August 2024. Dr. Anshul Yadav Amit Tripathi Kiran Gowda K.S Mahesh Rajasekar Raj Vikram Singh WASI ALAM Sakshi C. Dasgupta Riya Rahiman Gayathri Lalu Agathe Nougaret Amrutha Balan Alpana Saha Chandan Yakapur Neha Bhatia Rajita Agarwal Ashis Kumar, David White More details below:

As #ClimateChange impacts worsen, strong MEL systems are vital for #adaptation. 📈 MEL: ▶️ Tracks, assesses and improves adaptation ▶️ Reduces impacts for vulnerable populations ▶️ Includes everyone See insights from 9 countries in this latest report: https://bit.ly/3yFdaNd

Concluding the section on the examples of Community-Resilience building via Adaptation in South Asia. Good examples from different sectors made efficient, effective, resource-sensitive and culturally appropriate because they are al community-based adaptations. IPCC reports miss these aspects because of the focus on global models which lack the ability to provide local risk info. Let’s hope future projections will focus on societally relevant timescales and location-specific risk information. #adaptation #mitigation #communityresilience #communitybased #netzero #india #bangladesh #pakistan #climatechange #resilience #vulnerability https://lnkd.in/dBP9shTE

We need to talk about this, but most of us don't want to. Not because we're xenophobic, but because the problem is almost too big to compute. But when we are planning water resource management, flood risk management, food security and more, we have a responsibility to at least consider the possibility that we will be welcoming millions more people to live in the UK by 2050 and we need to include that in our planning. Don't we? This is a quote from the report, but please read it if you can find the time. 'Even the very cautious IOM estimates between “25 million and 1 billion environmental migrants by 2050…with 200 million being the most widely cited estimate”. https://lnkd.in/ecjDCrGz