2025

Innovative Mobile Flood Barriers Transform Pakistan’s Climate Resilience Through International Partnership

Photo credit: wavesave.com Pakistan's unprecedented 2022 floods revealed critical gaps in traditional disaster response capabilities, prompting the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) to seek revolutionary flood management solutions through their Climate Innovation Challenge (CIC). This strategic initiative brought together the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH), Dutch flood control specialist WaveSave, and the data analytics firm [...] Read More

Innovation for Building Climate Resilience in Asia

Photo credit: Pexels.com South Asia and South East Asia are among the most vulnerable regions to climate shocks. The region is living through a “new climate normal” in which intensifying heat waves, cyclones, droughts, and floods are testing the adaptation limits of government, businesses, and citizens. The changing climate could sharply diminish living conditions for [...] Read More

High-altitude Adaptation: Climate Change in India’s Palani Hills

Photo credit: Kodaikanal International School - Center for Environment and Humanity With changes witnessed in the fruiting of produce over the last few decades, it is now more important than ever to listen closely to the earth, attune our responses to its shifting patterns and talk to each other, say residents of the verdant Palani [...] Read More