Dr Sarisha Ramanand explores climate negotiations, Loss and Damage, mentorship, and transparency, showing why capacity building, lived realities, and inclusive leadership are essential to advancing climate resilience and justice in an increasingly complex global climate landscape.
Bridging the Monastery and Bureaucracy: Climate Knowledge, Cultural Loss, and Adaptation in Mustang, Nepal
In Mustang, Nepal, monasteries are more than heritage sites: they anchor community life, preserve environmental memory, and shape responses to climate change. This post explores how monks interpret loss, navigate uncertainty, and reveal why adaptation planning must include cultural knowledge.
Addressing the climate finance gap through locally led country platform approach
There is an urgency of innovative and inclusive financing mechanisms that can streamline finance, enhance coordination, and empower frontline communities to shape their own resilience strategies. The catastrophic climate change impacts disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable people in LDCs and SIDS, who lack the resources to respond effectively.
Empowering local communities to become groundwater-wise
Empowered villagers plan and manage scarce groundwater cooperatively and sustainably, demonstrating their transformative potential.