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Feature Article: Climate Change Across South Asia
While steps are being taken to study and remedy the problems posed by climate change to South Asia, Sterret concludes that “Gaps in capacity, knowledge, and experience are common across South Asia, especially as far as it concerns the dissemination of concepts and experiences on effective adaptation strategies.” [12] As such, she purports that one of the best solutions is “building relationships and developing common understanding and shared knowledge among various groups, including politicians and researchers.”
This falls in line with the aspirations of the SAARC to serve as a meeting point for South Asian nations to address the common problems of more storms, higher sea levels, and receding shorelines. Nations should empower the SAARC with the capacity to act as an enforcer of rules, which involves relinquishing some control of their national policies but takes into account the regional aspect of climate change that goes beyond one nation’s borders.
[1] Cyclone Phailin: Mass evacuations in eastern India, BBC, October 12, 2013. Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-24487130
[2] Charlotte Sterrett, Review of Climate Change Adaptation Practices in South Asia, Oxfam Research Reports, available at http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/rr-climate-change-adaptation-south-asia-161111-en.pdf
[3] Karachi: 10 million inhabitants, Mumbai: 12 Million, Dhaka: 10 Million. By 2025, Far Eastern Economic Review predicts that that there will be more than 26.5 Million in Karachi, 33 Milliion in Mumbai, and 25 Million in Dhaka. Pepe Escobar, Asia Times Online, available at http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HE20Aa01.html
[4] Charlotte Sterrett, Review of Climate Change Adaptation Practices in South Asia, Oxfam Research Reports, available at http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/rr-climate-change-adaptation-south-asia-161111-en.pdf
[5] Charlotte Sterrett, Review of Climate Change Adaptation Practices in South Asia, Oxfam Research Reports, available at http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/rr-climate-change-adaptation-south-asia-161111-en.pdf
[6] Asia Development Bank, Climate Change Threat to South Asia, available at http://www.adb.org/features/climate-change-threat-south-asia
[7] http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/SOUTHASIAEXT/0,,contentMDK:21469804~menuPK:2246552~pagePK:2865106~piPK:2865128~theSitePK:223547,00.html
[8] Center for American Progress, Climate Change Migration Conflict in South Asia, available at http://www.boell.org/downloads/Bhattacharyya-Werz_ClimateChange-Migration-Conflict-in-South-Asia.pdf
[9] http://ccafs.cgiar.org/regions/south-asia
[10] http://50.22.11.12/~sansacor/
[11] SAARC Plan of Action, available at http://saarc-sdmc.nic.in/pdf/publications/climate/chapter-2.pdf
[12] Charlotte Sterrett, Review of Climate Change Adaptation Practices in South Asia, Oxfam Research Reports, available at http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/rr-climate-change-adaptation-south-asia-161111-en.pdf
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