USAID is ensuring informal recycling workers have a seat at the table in developing solutions to reduce ocean plastic pollution. We’ve launched new policy recommendations with our partners GRID-Arendal WIEGO and ISWA
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Inviting all journalists and media fraternity to attend a 2-day certificate course on Climate Change from 25-26 November 2022, Azim Premji University Bangalore campus - with IndiaSpend. Register here - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…. Please spread the word!
#climatechange #climatecrisis

Can't wait to see more:)

Sleepless night for 45 families.
Community requesting for desilting & maintenance of SWD.
NDMA India | राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण 🇮🇳 Director-KSDMA Tushar Giri Nath IAS Rakesh Singh IAS CM of Karnataka
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Nandini ananya Slum Mahila Sanghatane Reshma Lalitha Srinivasn Naveen Menezes Shreyas HS Jahnavi Ravindra

Starting today! Pinky Chandran & Amanda Gann are hosting a series of collaborative workshops at Azim Premji University on water in Bengaluru. They will be discussing personal experiences of floods in the city & design/planning solutions through stories & art. Going to be fun. Join us!

Join in tomorrow Azim Premji University #globalclimatechangeweek
Pinky Chandran & Amanda Gann have curated an exciting series of events.
Kicks off 11 AM. Panel on 'Building Climate Leaders in Informal Settlements' w Nalini Shekar . Hasiru Dala Biome Trust Citizen Matters

On October 18, 2-4:30pm, Pinky Chandran, Sahil Mathew, Arvind Lakshmisha of Megat A+ Jamil, Kartik H, and Akbar Allahbakash of Hasiru Dala and I are hosting workshop on 'collective water' exploring community action around water to close out Global Climate Change Week! Join us!

When with the government learn that it is in their interest to decentralise systems, track, monitor operations? NGT imposes Rs. 2,900 crore penalty on Karnataka government for poor #wastemanagement
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If you love your city and want to protect its unique adjacent grassland . Comeoff this Sunday to Cubbon Park #Bengaluru

Initiative to support #hairpickers Barkha Kumari covers Hasiru Dala's new project for Deccan Herald deccanherald.com/metrolife/metr…

BIG SC VERDICT ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS!

Supreme Court rules unmarried women have a right to get an abortion under MTP Act. SC says “reproductive rights must be given widest interpretation”. SC says 60% abortions carried out in India are unsafe due to denial of access to safe means.

In the 3rd of our series - 9 women, 9 Colours we celebrate GOWRAMMA.
The first woman to manage DWCC in Tumkur, she represented thousands like her in the Swach Bharath Abhiyan policy discussion in Delhi.
Gowramma embodies the elegance and power of royal blue.

NEW:

As the US seeks to respond to the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution, CIEL's Jane Patton (🔜 @ #INC1 for #PlasticsTreaty 😎) reacts:
'If we are working [on a #PlasticsTreaty ] from the position of we are only going to negotiate what we can get done at home, we've lost before we've even started.'

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We don't need a Paris Agreement  for the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty if we are to seriously address the issue

𝐀𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐨𝐞𝐬:

This field visit and walk facilitated by Pinky Chandran allowed the participants to get an insight into the Koramangala Valley pathway in #Bengaluru , the communities residing along the line, and urban #flooding vulnerability.

In his recent talk, Dilip da Cunha invites us all to shift from a conversation on 'water' to one on 'wetness' and design for temporality instead of a moment in time. This allows us to explore the multi-faceted role of water in all its forms and design for the gradient.

‘This is what a river should look like’: Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years theguardian.com/environment/20…

With the ongoing demolition drive, around the storm water drains, the question to ask is where is our construction debris going? | I speak to Barkha Kumari Deccan Herald deccanherald.com/metrolife/metr…

#WeSpeakToo2 Listen to Sanjana, Shivaji, Sushila, Ramkala & Ravi (Sanitation Workers) on The City and Us: Well-being and Home. 4pm Saturday, 24th September at bit.ly/3xyUCe, RSVP here bit.ly/3xlmG4p, or click here to watch online - bit.ly/3DtYuR2