Will governments make Big Tobacco pay and kick Big Polluters out from Treaty meets?

[watch the recording] As intergovernmental Treaty meetings open on climate (UNFCCC) and tobacco control (WHO FCTC), there is a growing call to make Big Tobacco pay and kick Big Polluters out of these Treaty negotiations. Experts have underpinned the critical importance of firewalling intergovernmental health and climate policy negotiations from corporate interference and called for advancing progress towards holding abusive corporations to account.

[video] Governments must prioritise accountability and urgent actions at climate and tobacco control Treaties

Why people who are most-impacted by climate disasters get subtracted from policy making?

Publication launched at AIDS 2022 on the interlinkages and key issues including sexual and reproductive health and rights and bodily autonomy in differential vulnerability to climate change


[हिंदी] [watch the recording] An important publication launched at the opening day of world’s largest AIDS conference puts spotlight on not only the interlinkages between climate justice, gender equality and human rights, but also on differential vulnerabilities to climate change of people in Asia and the Pacific region.

ARROW for Change: Climate Justice in Planet A (हिंदी)

ARROW for Change: Climate Justice in Planet A (हिंदी) aims to highlight the prevailing climate justice issues in our climate actions in the region. More specifically, it builds perspectives on the interlinkages and key issues including SRHR and bodily autonomy in differential vulnerability to climate change, looks into the status and issues in integration of women, girls and LGBTI people’s needs in climate change action with a specific focus on health and climate change, brings forth the voices of youth and their inter-generational concerns, and documents success stories and advocacy strategies that have led to just transitions in the Asia-Pacific region. click here to download

[video] ARROW For Change: Climate Justice in Planet A (गृह ए में जलवायु न्याय) launch

[video] Climate crisis is jeopardising progress on gender equality, women's health, wage gaps | #AIDS2022

[video] Intergenerational response is vital for climate and gender justice: Fithriyyah Iskandar at #AIDS2022

[video] Pacific island nations have least emissions but face worst wrath of climate-disasters: Menka Goundan

[video] #ClimateChange exacerbates inequities faced by already-marginalized people: Sivananthi Thanenthiran

World Lung Day | Think twice, it is not another day in paradise: Air is deadlier than we thought it is!

[हिंदी] While we observe World Lung Day, let us also pay heed to the latest policy guidelines on one of the major preventable risk factors of deadliest of lung diseases: air pollution. The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its latest Air Quality Guidelines that after rigorous scientific review has lowered the maximum upper limit of six top deadly air pollutants. After thorough scientific analysis of all data emerging from around the world, the latest WHO Air Quality Guidelines has slashed the maximum upper cap on each of these deadly pollutants, compared to the maximum limit set 16 years ago (as per the 2005 WHO Air Quality Guidelines).

Why is public transport not good enough to make private vehicle ownership unnecessary?

[watch CNS Viewpoint] If the goal is to protect environment from automobile pollution, improve road safety, and end economic disparities in the society, then vehicle scrappage policy is not likely to deliver on these tall promises. Rather such a policy could be counter-productive if we look closely at the aforementioned goals. Such a policy is another example of promoting market-based solutions to benefit few industries at the plight of the people and the planet. If governments are serious to deliver on the goals listed above, then the only way forward is to improve public transport to an extent that private ownership of motor vehicles, becomes unnecessary and cumbersome.

[video] Why ban cycles on 62 Kolkata roads?

[video] Why is public transport not good enough to make private vehicle ownership unnecessary?

[video] #AirPollution reducing average life expectancy of 40% Indians by 9 years

[video] Good roads & infrastructure for cars & motor vehicles but no safe space for cycling or walking: Why?

Save Lakshadweep: Stop 'reform' which is not socially just and ecologically sustainable

There is a growing call to save Lakshadweep islands from attempts to destroy them socially, culturally and ecologically. One of the key demands is for the government of India to recall the Administrator appointed in Lakshadweep immediately and ensure democratic rights to decision-making are held by the islanders.

[video] Dams, rivers and climate change | #EarthDay​

[video] Haridwar saints end their fast to #SaveGanga​ after government's assurance

[video] Ganga andolan by Maitri Sadan

[video] #RailRoko, farmers' movement and Chauri Chaura: Dr Sandeep Pandey's viewpoint