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Today, third pole citizens are directly facing the impacts of planetary change.
As a nonprofit based in this region, we have witnessed delayed and diminished snow and rainfall in winters, devastating flooding and landslides in the monsoons, and extreme heat waves in the summers. These impacts have real consequences—including water shortages, more diseases, and the real risk of losing our homes and livelihoods. Scientific consensus confirms our lived experiences.
The Indian state holds critical “environmental” information about all of this and more—on behalf of us as citizens, and is bound by law to share it with us. Our fellow citizens from neighboring third pole democracies have similar rights of access to information.
At the Center, we have made inroads into systematically organizing environmental information concerning the third pole available in the public domain, and making it accessible widely. We are now using our Right to Information to shore up information that isn’t as readily available, let alone in an organized manner—yet which is crucial to keeping us informed about how (and to what extent) the state is planning for a rapidly changing planet.
Access information here.
If you are a member of the press, we would love to work together to give these crucial disclosures a wider platform. Find our presskit here, and feel free to reach out at himalayanadvocacy@gmail.com. Getting this crucial information takes work—from strategic drafting of RTI requests to following up with the Government. Do support the Center to help us continue executing environmental justice work in India.