Summary:
A+ A-Hyderabad: The South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC), a rainbow coalition of organizations and individuals, has organised a four-day conference on People’s Action on climate change titled, “Keep the Climate, Change the Economy” 18-21 Sept 2019, at Hyderabad. The objective of the Hyderabad conference was to get South Asian civil society organizations to become aware of, and contribute more to mitigate the impacts of climate change, which will be particularly severe in most South Asian countries. SAPACC will work with South Asian civil societies to take urgent measures to reduce the risk of climate change impacts and influence governance and policymakers to take all measures urgently and contribute for achieving the goals of Paris UN Climate Change Conference. Decentralization, democratic, transparent governance: Governance should be decentralized and democratic; all governance information should be in public domain. Responsibility for loss & damage: All nations/regions should take responsibility for the impacts of climate change —displacement, property loss, environmental damage, etc—in proportion to their historic emissions (emissions from 1800-todate)..