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Nov 13, 2024 | 
eco-business.com | Shalinee Kumari
As the 29th UN climate conference opens in Baku, Azerbaijan, one thing remains the same: men will occupy most seats at the climate talks. Much has changed since the UN’s first Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1995. But the proportion of women representatives has remained stalled, at about a third of participants.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
arynews.tv | Shalinee Kumari
As the 29th UN climate conference (COP29) opens in Baku, Azerbaijan today, one thing remains the same: men will occupy most seats at the climate talks. Much has changed since the UN’s first Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1995. But the proportion of women representatives has remained stalled, at about a third of participants.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
dialogue.earth | Shalinee Kumari
As the 29th UN climate conference opens in Baku, Azerbaijan today, one thing remains the same: men will occupy most seats at the climate talks. Much has changed since the UN’s first Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1995. But the proportion of women representatives has remained stalled, at about a third of participants.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
dialogue.earth | Shalinee Kumari
The effects of climate change are being felt across the world. As temperatures continue to rise, South Asia is among the regions set to be most severely impacted. Much discussion on the international stage has focused on adapting to the effects of a changing climate. But in some cases, ecosystems are already damaged beyond repair, permanently disrupting the lives of the communities they sustain. In climate change diplomacy, these irreparable consequences are known as “loss and damage”.
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Sep 23, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Chetna Maroo |Rabeea Saleem |Faisal Farooq |Shalinee Kumari
Western LaneBy Chetna MarooPicador, UKISBN: 978-1529094626176pp. In his novel The End of The Affair, Graham Greene writes: “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”Here, our 11-year-old protagonist, Gopi, chooses to narrate her story a few weeks after her mother dies, leaving her and her two older sisters in the care of their father.
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Sep 23, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Mehr Afshan Farooqi |Faisal Farooq |Shalinee Kumari |Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry
The mushaira at Richmond, Virginia, in late August this year reminded me of gatherings from my childhood, when poets congregated at my parent’s home in Allahabad. Our drawing room sofas would be pushed back to the walls, the carpet would be overlaid with durries covered with freshly laundered chandnis transforming the room from a Western-style to an Eastern-style visitors’ room. The kitchen would be bustling. Trays full of steaming mugs of tea would be served to incoming poets-guests.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Shalinee Kumari
Climate change glossary: Terms you need to understand, explained As the world warms due to climate change, threatening millions of lives and livelihoods, nothing is more urgent than clear communication about the changing climate and its consequences. But too often, discussions around climate change are heavy on jargon and technical terms, excluding the wider public from conversations of life-altering importance. However, we cannot abandon precision and scientific rigour.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
science.thewire.in | Shalinee Kumari
As the world warms due to climate change, threatening millions of lives and livelihoods, nothing is more urgent than clear communication about the changing climate and its consequences. But too often, discussions around climate change are heavy on jargon and technical terms, excluding the wider public from conversations of life-altering importance. However, we cannot abandon precision and scientific rigour.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
arynews.tv | Shalinee Kumari
As the world warms due to climate change, threatening millions of lives and livelihoods, nothing is more urgent than clear communication about the changing climate and its consequences. But too often, discussions around climate change are heavy on jargon and technical terms, excluding the wider public from conversations of life-altering importance. However, we cannot abandon precision and scientific rigour.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
thethirdpole.net | Shalinee Kumari |Jamia Millia Islamia |Ramesh Bhushal
जलवायु परिवर्तनसँगै विश्वभरिको औसत तापमान वृद्धि हुँदैछ । यसले धेरै मानिसको जनजीविकालाई खतरामा पारेकोछ । त्यसैले परिवर्तनशिल जलवायु र त्यसका असरबारे कुराकानी र छलफल सरल, प्रष्ट र अन्योलरहित हुनुपर्छ । तर अक्सर जलवायु परिवर्तन सम्बन्धीका बहसमा ठुला ठुला र जटिल शब्द प्रयोग हुन्छन् । धेरै प्राविधिक शब्द प्रयोग हुन्छन् । आम मानिसलाई बुझ्न गाह्रो हुन्छ र यो महत्त्वपूर्ण विषयको छलफलमा उनीहरू सहजै सहभागी हुन पाउँदैनन् । यद्यपि शब्द र भाषालाई सरल बनाउँदैमा यसले वैज्ञानिक तथ्य र गहिराइको सम्मान...
