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Building climate ready communities

漏 UNESCO
11 November 2021
Last update:20 April 2023

UNESCO New Delhi in collaboration with the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) organized a regional online event on the theme 鈥楤uilding Climate Ready Communities鈥 on 10 November 2021, to commemorate the World Science Day for Peace and Development 2021. 

 

The webinar focused on climate change and its impacts on human societies.  The discussions featured solutions for building climate-ready communities, with examples from South-Asia on how climate change impacts on nature and society and the options to be improve resilience.  Panelists and experts from South Asia, included Dr Mariam Akhter (Bangladesh), Ms Sigyel Delma (Bhutan), Dr Mamta Sharma (India), Ms Ilham Atho Mohamed (Maldives), Dr Arun Bhakta Shrestha (Nepal), and Ms. Shiranee Yasaratne (Sri Lanka).  

Building climate-ready communities needs a professional science-education platform. It needs awareness, and enhanced knowledge and skills, and everybody should participate.
Eric Falt, Director, UNESCO New Delhi in his opening remarks
Climate change is real, and its impact on our lives is of immense importance. We do have options on how to build climate-ready communities. Most importantly, we can retrofit our own communities and improve our own behavior, including carbon intensive consumption.
Dr Ravi Srinivas, Consultant Senior Fellow, RIS.
We should revert to human living in harmony with nature, including the conservation and restoration of blue and green carbon ecosystems, such as terrestrial forests and coastal mangroves.
Benno B枚er, UNESCO New Delhi Science Specialist in his closing remarks.

Climate change has become a cross-cutting issue for all United Nations agencies, academia, environmental agencies, NGOs, civil-society organizations, the private sector and the general public. Building Climate Ready Communities needs a professional science-education platform, and it needs the participation of everyone. 

 
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