Understanding Heatwaves and Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions for India
Heat affects us in myriad ways. It affects us individually, it affects us as a community, and it affects how our cities function daily. As global temperatures rise, the sweltering conditions in urban regions are poised to become more severe. Heatwaves are becoming a prominent extreme weather phenomenon in many Indian cities as they sit […]
Energy Efficient Buildings
Discover a groundbreaking initiative with “Cities and Climate Change: Focus on Chennai,” a 10-part webinar series presented by INHAF under the visionary ClimACT-Chennai initiative. This series stands as a pioneering effort, igniting collaborative climate action and uniting diverse stakeholders toward a sustainable, climate-resilient future for Chennai, and potentially, for cities across India. The webinar series […]
Solid Waste and Sewage
Discover a groundbreaking initiative with “Cities and Climate Change: Focus on Chennai,” a 10-part webinar series presented by INHAF under the visionary ClimACT-Chennai initiative. This series stands as a pioneering effort, igniting collaborative climate action and uniting diverse stakeholders toward a sustainable, climate-resilient future for Chennai, and potentially, for cities across India. The webinar series […]
Urban Transportation
Discover a groundbreaking initiative with “Cities and Climate Change: Focus on Chennai,” a 10-part webinar series presented by INHAF under the visionary ClimACT-Chennai initiative. This series stands as a pioneering effort, igniting collaborative climate action and uniting diverse stakeholders toward a sustainable, climate-resilient future for Chennai, and potentially, for cities across India. The webinar series […]
Urban Heat Island Effect
Discover a groundbreaking initiative with “Cities and Climate Change: Focus on Chennai,” a 10-part webinar series presented by INHAF under the visionary ClimACT-Chennai initiative. This series stands as a pioneering effort, igniting collaborative climate action and uniting diverse stakeholders toward a sustainable, climate-resilient future for Chennai, and potentially, for cities across India. The webinar series […]
Connecting the Carbon Dots: Blueprinting Chennai’s 2030 Target
Chennai faces a wide spectrum of climate change-induced challenges and issues. Chennai is ranked as the most socio-economically vulnerable city to climate change. Human interventions with a high carbon footprint have damaged the ecology of the city, leading to losses in the wetland ecosystems and biodiversity. Climate Action through a lens of Evaluating the Carbon […]
Climate Emergency: How safe or Vulnerable Indian coastal Cities are??
Cities are considered the engines of growth with bursting economic activities, thanks to the competitive/extractive growth models adopted in India. The nation’s wealth is concentrated in cities. The population density is steeply rising disproportionate to the available land space. Besides, the cities in India are already very heavily stressed due to huge waste generation (solid, […]