Amita Bhaduri

Proactive action on green cooling to deal with the climate crisis

India’s decision to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol is a milestone in green cooling and will contribute significantly to climate action, says iFOREST Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

Edited NASA PR image showing the ozone hole for 2014 over the south pole. Red is bad, blue is good, e.g., red means not as much ozone as blue. (Image: Stuart Rankin; CC BY-NC 2.0)

Equipping communities to plan land and water conservation initiatives

Use of digital tools for implementing natural resources management at scale in rural India Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

Digital planning tools like CLART can go a long way in achieving better land-use outcomes (Image: Foundation for Ecological Security)

Barriers to organic farming: Experience of Kansari Organics

Government needs to switch subsidies and investments from chemical agriculture to the promotion of sustainable agriculture Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

A farmer harvests the season's cauliflower crop near Kullu town, Himachal Pradesh (Image: Neil Palmer, CIAT; Wikimedia Commons)

Nainital’s water woes: Every drop of rain counts

Nainital, a burgeoning hill town with a huge growing population is faced with water supply issues. Adoption of the practice of rainwater harvesting can lead to a paradigm shift towards better utilisation of the town’s natural water resources. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

Naini lake, a natural freshwater body, quenches the thirst of the town (Image: Sanjay Bora)

How kitchen gardens pick up pace in a rural MP village

Championing community mobilisation for the conservation of water resources Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

Sagni Bai works on promoting kitchen gardens and water conservation which are doing wonders in this remote MP village (Image: FES)

Best practices in IEC-HRD to engage rural communities based on JJM - Karnataka experience

A summary of conversations with Mr. Parameshwar Hegde, Director (ISA), Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Department, Government of Karnataka Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

At the district level, Karnataka has engaged Implementation Support Agencies (ISA) who are involved in IEC

IPCC: Net zero plans needed if we are to stop warming

A 1.5 degree celsius warming is likely even before 2040. IPCC report calls for immediate cuts on global greenhouse gas emissions. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

India will face irreversible impacts of climate crisis, says IPCC report (Image: Pixabay)

Empowering women to be water stewards

Women work on demystifying technologies in a remote Rajasthan village Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

Gayatri's efforts helped women get together and work on water management for the well being of a community (Image: Foundation for Ecological Security)

Report identifies 15 high-potential actions for cities to adapt to climate risks

Cities need to identify the most promising systemic and hazard-specific actions Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

Cities are a key contributor to climate change and are responsible for 75 percent of global CO2 emissions (Image: The Digital Artist, Pixabay)

Floods and recurring natural disasters in India

Better regulation of environmentally sensitive areas is needed to avert disasters. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

Floods in Uttarkashi (Image: Oxfam International; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Demystifying groundwater for collective action

Experiences from participatory groundwater management efforts in Maharashtra Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

Unless work on managing the demand is undertaken, the notion of ‘infinite’ groundwater will be hard to address. (Image: Rucha Deshmukh, ACWADAM)

Beat the heat

Meeting India’s rapidly increasing air-conditioning and refrigeration demand through super-efficient appliances, natural refrigerants and not-in-kind cooling technologies, is a win-win for the climate and the economy, says iFOREST. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago