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Stop passing the buck on climate crisis actions

Climate change and its effects are now visible more than ever before. A major cause of climate change and global…

3 years ago

Each individual is a leader helping India achieve SDGs

Less than a decade remains for nations to fulfill their commitment of achieving 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The…

3 years ago

Localising SDGs: A Stiff Test for Cities

Our world has undergone profound changes in the last decade, more intensely in the previous 20 months. The Pandemic and…

3 years ago

Indian cities have to lead SDG movement

India would add over 400 million people to its cities by 2050 and become 50 per cent urbanised. There are…

3 years ago

SDGs – beacon of hope

This is the Decade of Action. This could turn out to be among the most crucial decades with far reaching…

3 years ago

Time to consider pandemics as disasters

The COVID-19 pandemic not only cost millions of lives worldwide, it also showed that the infrastructure in cities is incapable…

3 years ago

Cities need to assess their risks, act accordingly

Nations have to reevaluate disaster risks, direct impacts, and spill-over consequences on people, infrastructure, economy, and services. At the local…

3 years ago

Preparing Indian cities for better disaster response

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 10-Point Agenda has been lauded as one of the most diverse set of actions for building…

3 years ago

Preparation key to disaster risk reduction

The recent landslide in Himachal’s Kinnaur caused the tragic deaths of over 25 persons. The severe nature of the landslide…

3 years ago

AIILSG’s contributions and innovations for COVID-19 relief, resilience building

AIILSG’s COVID-19 relief and resilience building efforts have positively impacted more than 3,00,000 under-privileged populations from 76 pre-dominantly tribal villages,…

3 years ago