A curated library of resources to learn about climate change

This short video captures key findings from the 2022 Lancet report on climate change and health. It explains how anthropogenic climate change has resulted in heat deaths, hunger, heat-related illnesses and infectious diseases, and stresses the need for immediate action to save millions of lives.

Climate change is aggravating health concerns including communicable diseases, undernutrition, mental illness, and allergies due to increasing risks. This article outlines the need to focus on both the climate and health crises, by accounting for direct and indirect climate impacts on health.

This article explains how air pollution is affecting global health, how it is related to climate change, and how countries can respond to it – as well as the need to measure and monitor it, identify sources, and disseminate air quality data to the public.

The NPCCHH’s website provides the latest information on key government-led efforts to address public health, as well as guidelines on air pollution, climate resilient health facilties, and health advisories.

Worldwide, people are seeing their health increasingly affected by climate change amidst the compounding impacts of COVID-19 and the cost of living and energy crises. This article captures key findings from the 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change.

While gender has been increasingly factored into international climate policy, progress in India has been slow. This article examines how green recovery can build a new socio-economic model that is climate neutral, resilient, sustainable and inclusive

Although women are disproportionately affected by climate change, they aren’t just vulnerable to its effects. This short video explains how women are also effective agents of change in both adaptation and mitigation, and critical to climate action.

This report attempts to draw attention to the unique space that girls and women occupy in the climate crisis today, and serve as a reference point for practitioners, policymakers, and academics alike to go deeper and wider into exploring the interlinkages between climate change and gender.

This article explores the different impacts of climate change on the health of men and women, and the need to ingreate a gendered perspective into existing climate, development, and disaster-risk reduction policy frameworks, to reduce negative health outcomes.

This article explains the emerging concept of climate smart villages that can cope with adverse climate impacts. It details the need for technical support, funding, and above all community participation – and how stakeholders must focus on changing mindsets, disaster-proofing, and collaborative action.

This podcast episode reports on how residents of informal settlements in Delhi are tackling heat waves. It dwells on how climate risks are affecting one section of the society more severely, who the most vulnerable are, and why India needs to climate-proof its infrastructure.

This learning series aims to build a common understanding of cities about climate change and their role in mainstreaming climate actions through policies and regulations, planning and implementation of programs and projects.

This report sets out a framework that captures the climate performance of cities under national and international initiatives like the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, Nationally Determined Contributions, Sustainable Development Goals, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Management.

This video details CGIAR’s efforts to improve the adaptability and resilience of farmers in relatively food insecure and vulnerable regions of India, and to use this evidence in supporting designs of large-scale climate adaptation programmes being implemented or being developed in India.

This article identifies more than 30 measures smallholder farmers can pursue for climate change adaptation and mitigation, across five categories: animal production practices, rice-based measures, other crop-based measures, land-use change and intensification, and postharvest and processing loss.

This report gives an overview of how Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) is an effective and established solution for energy access, and discusses the potential of DRE to power enterprises and support livelihoods across the developing world.

MSMEs are engines of growth; yet, they are not shielded against climate change-associated damage, uncertainties, and financial risks. This article emphasizes the need for robust evidence on climate vulnerabilities of MSMEs and how to build resilience to climate change.

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can help meet climate challenges, while securing food and energy needs across the globe. This article explains the CSA approach, the need to integrate renewable energy, and different innovations and technological responses to empower farmers.

South Asian countries are among the most vulnerable globally to the impacts of climate change. This article features educators from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, and India, actively advocating for climate education to be taught in schools – to build a sustainable, climate-resilient future.

In crises, children and young people are particularly vulnerable, losing access to education and related opportunities. This report aims to provide an overview of the educational vulnerabilities that climate displaced persons face and some guiding principles for ensuring their right to education.

This report aims to guide policy-makers through providing operational policy recommendations on how to ensure education is protected in Asia and the Pacific in the face of climate change and displacement, using a human rights-based approach.