Presenting today and chairing tomorrow! Excited to learn from colleagues and exchange insights!!

History fades as rising sea levels slowly destroy Thailand’s temple murals theguardian.com/environment/20…

In 2023 we’ve seen climate destruction in real time, yet rich countries are poised to do little at Cop28 | Saleemul Huq and Farhana Sultana theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In this essay, Stephanie Krzywonos (@stephkrzywonos.bsky.social) interrogates heroic narratives of Antarctica that gender the land through feminine tropes. As she comes to know this expansive landscape, she invites us to consider the continent on its own terms.
Read “Antarctica the Woman.” emergencemagazine.org/essay/antarcti…

🌡️🌍 Are some places we live going to be uninhabitable?
Due to climate change, some regions are getting so hot and humid that human health could be at risk.
Read more on climate change risks in the IPCC report ➡️ ow.ly/L1HN50NIt3H

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.

Congratulations, India🇮🇳!

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3

👉 What are the risk drivers that can lead to a disaster? Understanding risk is key to preventing it.

Read our page below to find out more ⏬
bit.ly/33DK7tP

Since Bill Gates is apparently talking about climate change & overpopulation, allow me to share again that it's overconsumption, waste culture & much more driving climate/ecological crises. Here's a convenient thread with tons of resources & videos⤵️
twitter.com/Prof_FSultana/…

UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record theguardian.com/environment/20…

“When ice melts the liquid water volume goes up” - glacial melt & Arctic melt leading to sea level rise & flooding was something many of us worried about in mostly-at-sea-level deltaic coasts & island states even as children decades ago. Now it’s a worse reality. #ClimateCrisis

Professor Kevin Anderson is addressing all of us in very clear words:

»We are heading towards 3 to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species incl our own. And all we are doing so far is giving rhetoric and optimism and greenwash.«

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Thank you, Michelle Ho (she/her) Ranjita Dilraj FASS and the NUS gender and sexuality cluster! LSE Gender

Sharmila Parmanand LSE If you missed this🌟fabulous talk by Dr. Sharmila Parmanand Sharmila Parmanand and chaired by Veronica L. Gregorio, you can still read an account written by our #GSRC Graduate Associate Ranjita Dilraj here➡️gendersexualitycluster.wordpress.com/2023/04/02/sav…

Happening this Friday!
#GSRC at #NUS

Now, girl students of a university in Kerala can avail 'menstruation benefit' in the form of additional condonation of shortage of attendance. Read more here

#Kerala #menstruation #Cochin

telegraphindia.com/india/universi…

Climate change & gender inequalities are deeply connected in many ways. It is clear that gender considerations need to be at centre of efforts to combat the #ClimateCrisis .
Here are 9⃣ countries working towards gender-responsive climate policies via UN Development: undp.org/blog/putting-w…

The ACWAP initiative aims to increase opportunities for women in the just transition to a green economy, as well as to promote gender-sensitive perspectives in adaptation and mitigation, while also promoting educational and behavioral change on women and climate change.

😮 This is major: without mangroves, 15 MILLION more people would be affected by floods each year.

Restoring and protecting nature is one of the best ways we can help safeguard this one home we all share.

#Mangroves are an amazing example of that. ⬇️ #LivingPlanet #LPR2022

What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest example of global cooperation in history.