Media Resource Centre

14^th CSE Media Fellowships

Lives transformed: Tales of climate change, its impacts and how populations are coping

Deadline for submission extended: May 30, 2012  

Climate change is for real – the world is loudly proclaiming it to be so, and nations are jousting amongst themselves on ways to control it. Monsoon cycles are reportedly going haywire, and extreme weather events -- cloud bursts, cyclones, floods -- are apparently becoming more intense and frequent the world over.

India must be witnessing these impacts as well – in its remotest villages, along its sea-swept coastlines and in its cities filled with teeming millions. But there really is very limited reliable information on how and where these impacts are being felt the most, what these impacts are doing to lives, livelihoods and the environment, and what are people and communities doing to live with them. There are stories out there which nobody is reporting on.