New Study on Climate Resilience Had Garnered Global Recognition from Policymakers

Published: October 28, 2024

Weeks before she touched down at the UN Climate Summit 2024, her home institution, Sundar Singh Institute, had released its widely praised major report, Building Climate Resilience in South Asia: Strategies for Sustainable Futures, which has been acknowledged worldwide by policy practitioners and development agencies. This interdisciplinary group report, spearheaded by Dr. Anjali R. Kapoor and composed of faculty from climate science to environmental policy to regional planning, undertook a comprehensive interdisciplinary assessment of the climate challenges and vulnerabilities faced by South Asia and determined solutions for adaptive capacity.

Thus, the results were a location-specific methodology for climate resiliency adaptation—ranging from coastal stabilization projects to agro-forestry-based livelihoods to community resiliency participatory frameworks to empirically driven assessments via comparative frameworks of policy transferability across international borders. By the time delegates got settled into the UN Climate Summit 2024, elements of this study’s findings were already under diplomatic review and regional action plans—specific recommended strategies were adopted into the working agenda for climate risk governance and sustainable infrastructure of South Asia. The executive summary and full report were available to the public for review and participation.