Reports and Documents

The Gathering Storm: Climate Change, Security and Conflict collates evidence from around the world to show how climate change is acting as a catalyst for conflict and instability.

The Centre for Dalit Studies (CDS) released an eight-page ‘Dalit and Adivasi Agenda’, a manifesto containing demands from people across 22 different areas, to be circulated among all political parties fielding candidates in the coming elections.

17.9 million Kolkatans face serious risk from natural disasters and the city emerges as the world’s seventh riskiest city reveals this new analysis of natural disasters confronting 616 of the world’s largest urban areas.

Pilibhit Forest Division in the state of Uttar Pradesh is a unique site for tiger conservation because it supports a breeding tiger population even though the forests are narrow and disturbed.

The Kanha-Pench complex harbours around 120 tigers along with several important floral and faunal assemblages. The landscape also supports diverse
land use, forest protection regimes and traditional forest dwelling tribal communities.

This new report released on March 26, 2014 provides results of a tiger monitoring study undertaken jointly by the Kerala Forest Department and WWF-India.

This Congress manifesto titled 'Your voice, our pledge' released for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections focuses on inclusive growth, agriculture, education and health.

Hunger is not and need never be inevitable. However climate change threatens to put back the fight to eradicate it by decades – and global food system is woefully unprepared to cope with the challenge. Oxfam analyses how well the world’s food system is prepared for the impacts of climate change.

A new report recommends that China curb rapid urban sprawl by reforming land requisition, give migrants urban residency and equal access to basic public services, and reform local finances by finding stable revenues and by allowing local governments to borrow directly within strict central rules.

WHO estimates that around 7 million people died in 2012 - 1 in 8 of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. The estimates confirm that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk. The new data reveal a stronger link between both indoor and outdoor air pollution exposure and cardiovascular diseases, such as strokes and ischaemic heart disease, as well as between air pollution and cancer.