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TerraGreen Magazine - March 2022 WSDS Special Issue: Towards A Resilient Planet (Ensuring A Sustainable And Equitable Future)

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In this issue

The Twenty First Edition of the annual flagship event of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS), was held from 16th to 18th February, 2022 in a virtual format. The Summit deliberations focussed on the umbrella theme: Towards a Resilient Planet: Ensuring a Sustainable and Equitable Future.

The onslaught of extreme weather events around the world has brought to the forefront on how human well-being and the health of our planet are inextricably linked. Just and equitable implementation of climate and environmental policies need to go hand in hand with broader sustainable development objectives. The present state of planetary health along with pandemic-driven socioeconomic crises call for a revisit on questions related to global ambition and measures for sustainable development. Responses should be viewed from the perspective of planetary resilience, and responses to the pandemic must be right for humans as well as Planet Earth. This WSDS special edition of TerraGreen covers a wide range of contributions on adaptation, biodiversity finance, India's leadership, climate resilience, and planetary health.

WSDS 2022 was supported by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in partnership with the Royal Norwegian Embassy [Country Partner]; Bloomberg Philanthropies [Star Partner]; Tata Cleantech Capital [Premier Partner]; The Rockefeller Foundation [Premier Partner]; The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection & International Climate Initiative [Senior Partner]; ClimateWorks Foundation [Senior Partner]; The World Bank [Senior Partner]; and European Union and The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH [Senior Partner].

Biodiversity And Ecosystems - Financing The Future

In this article, Namita Vikas opines that the world needs a significant investment to tackle the interlinked crises of climate, biodiversity, and land degradation. Research has shown this figure to be $8.1 trillion by 2050, with an annual global investment of $536 billion. An enabling ecosystem to foster partnerships between grassroots stakeholders, policymakers, and the private sector, can help biodiversity and ecosystem-oriented adaptation finance to flourish.

8 mins

Financing Climate Action in India - Priorities and Reflections on COP26 by Indian States

In this article, Rana Pujari says that finance will catalyse acceleration of ambitious climate actions in the global south and India could lead the way for the world

6 mins

A Vote for Radical Inclusion - Re-Framing Adaptation in the Decade of Action

In this article, UNICEF India WASH Team says that with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s spoken commitments and emphasis on adaptation, along with the global commitment to double funding for adaptation projects to $40 billion annually, have created the necessary momentum for a renewed discussion on what adaptation can look like in India, how to monitor it transparently and convergently, and how to reflect it in future NDCs and COPs.

7 mins

Proposed National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well-being - Glimpses from the Bio-economy Programme

In this article, Nandan Nawn dwells on the proposed national mission on biodiversity and human well-being and says that even with a clear scientific base, able and committed scientists, and assured State support, it may take several decades to marshal the gigantic effort—in the nature of a ‘social movement’—to restore and sustain Nature for augmenting and sustaining human well-being in India.

7 mins

Fostering Sustainable and Resilient Agro-Food Futures in India

Manish Anand says adaptive measures need to be taken in India to achieve sustainable food security in the wake of threats posed by climate change. Further, there is a need to strengthen the capacity and tools to diagnose the challenges and map out integrated long-term strategies bringing coherence across the different dimensions of land-use, food systems, and climate change impacts.

5 mins

Making India's Infrastructure Climate-Ready - What We Can Do

In this article, Shreya Wadhawan and Abinash Mohanty discuss the ways in which India can climate-proof its infrastructures. They feel that any further delay in climate-proofing of infrastructure will further risk lives, livelihood, and economies. Climate-proofing infrastructure against the impacts of changing climate scenarios is vital to prevent decades of development from collapsing.

3 mins

IFAT India - Environmental Solutions for India

Nearing a decade IFAT India has been a hub for the environmental technology community, translating the passion of India’s game changers and leading environmentalists to bring holistic, sustainable solutions to pressing environmental issues and create a cleaner, greener, and more

4 mins

Towards a Resilient Planet - Through Public Health

The public health field is growingly being recognized in climate change policy. In this article, Drishya Pathak, Komal Mittal, and Philo Magdalene A, say that there is a need for developing interdisciplinary public health frameworks to reduce the vulnerabilities to climate change. A welldefined public health framework would redress the social and environmental determinants of health and allow offiials to build strategies and programmes to aid communities to acquire knowledge of climate resilience and prepare them for the health effects of climate change.

5 mins

“The Moment to Accelerate the Energy Transition is Now!”

‘A quicker and more equitable energy transition is in reach—not only for high-income countries where carbon reduction is the priority, but also for the developing and emerging world where a green energy transition can expand inclusive economic opportunities and provide access to energy that powers job creation and boosts livelihoods for hundreds of millions of low-income people.’ This is the view of the newly launched Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP). As the world reflects on the commitments made in Glasgow and looks ahead to Sharm El-Sheikh where the Conference of Parties will meet again, it is clear that unprecedented partnerships and bold commitments with rapid follow-through are needed if the world hopes to achieve the Paris Agreement. The clock is ticking. An analysis by the GEAPP made clear that while energy poor countries contribute to 25 per cent of global CO2 emissions, their share of global emissions could grow to 75 per cent by 2050. Yet these countries currently receive just 20 per cent of clean energy financing, despite representing nearly half of the world’s population. In 2009, at COP15 in Copenhagen, wealthy countries agreed to scale-up their level of support to mobilize $100 billion per year by 2020, but this climate finance pledge has not been realized. The continued underinvestment in developing countries’ energy transitions is due to myriad reasons and international investors point to investment, off-taker, foreign exchange, and contract risks, among other challenges in the enabling environments of emerging markets’ renewable energy sectors. The Alliance’s view is that these issues can be addressed. To learn more about the GEAPP’s vision and mission for 2022 and beyond, we asked Sundaa Bridgett-Jones, Chief Partnerships & Advocacy Officer, five questions.

10+ mins

Fostering Community-based Conservation in Nagaland, Northeast India

In this article, Siddharth Edake highlights TERI’s project titled “A Tradition in Transition: Understanding the Role of Shifting Cultivation for Sustainable Development in North East India” that is envisaged to gather wisdom pertaining to traditional agriculture in the form of shifting cultivation in Northeast India, providing useful knowledge and lessons so that traditional practices and knowledge will contribute to sustainable development in India and beyond.

5 mins

Climate Consequences - If India Sneezes

As 2022 starts, India faces the combined challenges of the COVID-19 and the climate crisis. Yet, India continues to fight the pandemic and climate change, as demonstrated by heroic efforts by public health offiers and strong climate commitments. Given these commitments, 2022 is a critical year for implementation in India and around the world. As the warning goes, “when Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold,” the same is true for India and the rest of the world when it comes to climate change. Read on to know more in this article by Anjali Jaiswal, M Joshi, and S Kwatra.

5 mins

Sustainability and Businesses - An Ecological Conundrum

In this article, Arghadeep Das highlights the potential of the private sector in enterprising green growth and their crucial role in helping address pressing environmental challenges.

4 mins

Humans for Earth - Finding the Voice of the Ordinary

In the words of Lord Robert Baden- Powell—“Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.”

4 mins

Responsible Business Action - Must Be Taken to Avert Environmental Crisis

In this article, Ryan Pathak says plastic pollution is engulfing our planet and concrete steps such as raising awareness must be taken and business companies should be held accountable. Company employees, including those in executive positions, must be educated on environmental issues, counting the consequences of their company’s decisions, including its carbon footprint. Businesses must have appropriate external entities that impose putting stricter restrictions on their actions, increasing their duty to be accountable.

4 mins

Save Soil Movement - A Race to Save the Planet

For all of Hollywood’s apocalyptic hyperbole, turns out reality is much more terrifying than celluloid doomsday fantasies. A silent catastrophe is unfolding across the globe: Soil extinction. The alarmingly rapid deterioration of cultivable soil could lead to massive species extinction, trigger global food and water shortage and set off unimaginable conflicts and suffering for humanity. This is not an ecological challenge but a very real existential threat to humanity. The Save Soil Movement is a global race against time to avert soil extinction.

5 mins

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TerraGreen Magazine Description:

Publisher: The-Energy-and-Resources-Institute-(TERI)

Category: News

Language: English

Frequency: Monthly

TerraGreen is one of the most respected monthly magazine dedicated to informing and enlightening its readers on issues of environment, energy, and sustainable development. Launched in 2004, TerraGreen has made an indelible impression on the minds of readers, both in India and across the world. Today, it enjoys a readership of over 40,000 and a subscriber base of close to 5,000. Helping the magazine along in its endeavour to take issues of absolute importance to the people is the fact that it is the only publication of its kind in the market; not only does it inform and educate, it does so in a subtle and reader-friendly manner. After all, the aim is to reach as many people as possible!

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