By Professor Alois Hirschmugl Designing and Implementing Effective Disaster Response Training Over the past decade, D.M.A.T. Consulting KG has organised a wide range of disaster response exercises worldwide, including in Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ghana, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and…
Celebrating the Women Ambassadors of CASA
By Dr. Madhulika Sahoo It was last year when I visited Burujhari village in the Ganjam district of Odisha. I visited the case station and interacted with the women ambassadors. The women who took responsibility for mitigating snakebite deaths in…
Leading the Change: Women Shaping a Sustainable Future
By Dr Maryam Samaila Mohammed Every year, preventable deaths claim the lives of hundreds of thousands of women and girls from maternal complications to climate-related health crises (WHO, 2025). These deaths are not inevitable. They are the result of structural…
Celebrating Strength, Resilience, and the Women Who Shape Our Lives
By Sadia Afrin Sayfa Negaban A day more than a celebration; it is a recognition of strength, resilience, and the endless possibilities women create. The 8th of March is a day when the world pauses to celebrate International Women’s Day.…
Extreme Heat, Loss and Damage, and the Urgency of Avoidable Deaths
By Prof. Anil Gupta*; and Mr. Vishal Pathak** Loss and damage from climate change are often discussed in terms of economic costs, infrastructure damage, and displacement. Yet one of the gravest and most irreversible forms of loss remains under-recognised: avoidable…
Join the Global Movement: Mark International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths (IAD4AD) in March 2026
By Prof. Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett and Dr. Hideyuki Shiroshita The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) invites campaigners, practitioners, researchers, and community leaders around the world to mark the International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths (IAD4AD) on 12 March 2026, or on…
Climate Leadership for Climate Action
By Mr. Mohammad Asad Tahir Jappa As the world faces unprecedented challenges from the climate crisis, deteriorating biodiversity, and the tolling of alarm bells over energy security, the crying need for climate leadership is in the spotlight. While we have…
When Climate Crises Become Health Crises: The Hidden Impact on Pregnant Women
By Mr. Alexander Skinner and Professor Nibedita Ray-Bennett Climate change isn’t just about rising seas and carbon emissions—it’s a health crisis, especially for women of reproductive age in disaster-prone regions. When floods, cyclones, or heatwaves strike, access to essential reproductive…
Challenging Anthropocentrism: Non-Human Loss and Damage and the Climate Debt in Heat-Stressed Urban India
By Ms. Lauren MacLeod The climate crisis compels a review of how policy addresses vulnerability in the context of the COP30 Global Ethical Stocktake (GES), which asks ‘Why do we continue with production and consumption models that harm the most…
World Snake Day
Today we celebrate snake’s unique role in our ecosystem: Most snakes are not aggressive and non-venomous, and often bite in self-defence, when threatened or provoked; trying to kill them will expose you to a higher risk of bite. Photo with…