Monitoring Extreme Weather in the Global South : CSE
🗓️Nov 6, 2023 ⏰ 6.30 PM IST
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.
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Early Warning Systems. CSE’s Updated Database on Extreme Weather For about a decade now, the Earth has been living through its hottest years since the pre-industrial period. This has triggered a spate of extreme weather events that have been more intense, frequent and difficult to predict. While it is critical to track and monitor such events and the loss and damage that they lead to, it is equally important to focus on effective and useful early warning systems that can inform communities of impending disasters, so that precautionary measures can be taken. We invite you to the first webinar in our series of pre-COP28 online briefings – on monitoring and forecasting extreme weather in the countries of the Global South. We would also be unveiling an updated version of our Extreme Weather Database in this webinar. Do save the date and join us.
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