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“Calamities: Nature or Human Action?
- Challenges and Responsibilities”
Tushar Pandey
Senior President and Country Head
Public and Social Policies Management
YES BANK Ltd.
Photo credits :Mark Horrell
Human Action and Climate Change
Climate Change
“human influence has been
the dominant cause of global
warming”
Human Influence
Fossil fuel burning
Industrialization
Energy Production
Urbanisation
Agriculture
Transport
Climate Change
Natural Calamities and
Disaster
Challenge Coping Climate
Change
Loss of human life,
disrupts infra, business etc.
Poverty
reduces
the
capability to cope up with
disasters Poor face the
brunt of climate change .
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Imperative to ensure Responsible and Inclusive
Development
Attitude towards Climate Change
Decreasing Sink
Over
exploitation of
resources
Increasing
Emissions
Energy Consumption – sector-wise
Financial Profit
Economic Loss
Increased
emission and
environment
degradation
Loss – human life
, infrastructure,
business est. etc.
Climate Change and calamities
Source: YES BANK ANALYSIS
Source: CAIT, 2012
Responsibility
Economic growth is a
priority – pulling
millions out of poverty
Balancing
Development
Profit
Sustainable
development
World Bank
Estimates – Poverty
head Count-394
million (People
living on less than
$1.25 a day)
People
Environment
Responsible development
India CO2e emissions
- 2,008,823 kt (World
Bank, 2010)
Climate Change Mitigation and Disaster management is a collective responsibility
cutting across all sectors of society, governments and agencies etc
Source: YES BANK ANALYSIS
Mitigation and Adaptation
Climate Change
Indentify Vulnerable Sectors
For instance – Agriculture,
Tourism, Energy
Diversify the Economy
systems that are resilient yet
sufficiently flexible that they
enable people to respond to
change.
PROVIDE ENABLERS
• Technological and Institutional
Innovationstechnology
transfer, R&D, extension
• Education and Training- skill
development, (re-)training
• Health Services and Social
Protection- healthy operational
labour force, social safety nets
• Transport
and
Communications
–
Energy
efficient
technologies
for
mobility of people, goods,
services, information
• Energy, water, natural resource
- efficiency of use
• Market- market infrastructure,
economies
of scale, valueaddition, trade
• Finance and Banking - credit,
banking,
investment,
remittances, insurance
Source: YES BANK analysis, and
Pres - Social Dimensions of Economic Diversification in the
Context of Climate Change , Institute for Social &
Environmental Transition (ISET)
Adaptation
National Policies  Industrial Policies
 National-level institutional
capacity-building
 CSR
 R&D – technologies ,
processes etc. for reducing
emissions and Carbon
sequestration
 EE building and appliances
 ISO14001
 Skill Development
 Benchmark for Services and
infra provisions
Climate Leadership is
important to mitigate
climate change and
disaster
Climate Finance
Multi-lateral Financial
Institutions
Bi-lateral Financial
Institutions
UNFCCC
Official Development Assistance
New and additional Climate Finance
Carbon Markets
Financing
 Concessional assistance to projects that endeavor to reduce
carbon emissions
 Risk guarantees for lending to energy efficient projects
 Programs to help consumers purchase more energy-efficient
homes and appliances, and to invest their deposits in more
climate-favorable ways
 Finance for renewable and clean energy projects.
 Provision for lending under PSL
Government Budget
Disaster Management
• National Disaster
Response Fund
• State Disaster Response
Fund
• Calamity Relief Fund (CRF)
Capital Markets
Substantial funding from the
private sector is needed
Public Private Partnership (PPP)
•
Promote involvement of relevant stakeholders such as private
sector associations, chambers, NGO’s, medical institutions,
NDMA & standards organization to identify opportunities in joint
projects
•
Evolve National framework for PPP for disaster risk reduction
and management
•
Identify
key
lifeline
sectors
such
as
Electricity,
Telecommunication, transport etc. which can be vital player in
disaster risk reduction. Develop emergency response and
resistance against possible disasters through PPP.
•
•
Leverage private sector expertise - software services (GIS) and
database management systems, simulations (e.g. seismic studies)
and web based dissemination regarding disaster and link it with
information dissemination mechanism such as coastal sirens,
wireless & radio technologies
Invest in R&D - research in fields related to disaster
management, such as critical infrastructure protection and public
administration, evolving role of public-private partnerships.
•
Encourage CSR initiatives towards disaster mitigation along with
government programs. Example - human resource development
•
Awareness workshops
 Strategic planning efforts
from both businesses and
governments
 Smooth
operations
disaster management
 Quick adoption
practices
of
of
best
Example - After Hurricane
Katrina struck the Gulf
Coast in 2005, Wal-Mart
played a vital part in
distributing relief supplies
to Gulf residents.
Community based Disaster Risk
Reduction (DRR)
1.
2.
SOCIAL EQUITY
Community
Empowerment
Advocacy, education and
Government
awareness-raising
Concerted efforts by local
and
national
governments
5.
Partnerships
international,
governmental,
governmental
community-based
organizations
with
nonand
Private Sector
Capacity building
Community-based
disaster preparedness
4.
Advisory , best
practices
CSR
Community
Infrastructure
Skill Training
Establish disaster
response teams
Disaster response plan
with strategies for
long term disaster risk
reduction
Example – DRR
part of school
curriculum
contribute
resources
Local Community
Stakeholder
Source: YES BANK analysis
NGO –
facilitator
3.
Risk
assessment
and
identification and the
establishment
of
community-based early
warning and prediction
Knowledge
Banking
Disclaimer
YES BANK Limited
Corporate Headquarters : Nehru Centre, 9th floor, Discovery of India, Dr. A.B. Road, Worli, Mumbai – 400 018, India.
Tel: +91 (22) 6669 9000 Fax: +91 (22) 2490 0314
Public and Social Policies Management Group
Tushar Pandey , Senior President and Country Head
[email protected] Tel: + 91 11 6656 9056
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