New BRICS disaster framework promotes unified relief and resilience

…India, noted that while effective adaptation is about combining robust scientific assessments and evidence with local, traditional knowledge, involving communities as active participants plays an important role too. " Institutional capacity, systems and financing play a critical role in delivering adaptation measures on ground. While national frameworks and institutions provide the enabling environment, including policies, standards and resources for action, local knowledge and community participation ensures that solutions are appropriate to the identified risks and grounded in local context, " Choudhary told PTI. "Involvement of the community as active participants in identifying risks, shaping solutions and building resilience plays an important role," she added. She further highlighted that the challenge…

…of disasters. "The relief-and-rescue efforts do not change. It is only the reconstruction part that changes across geographies, and that, according to me, is the basis of this thought process of a unified structure. It basically means that the entire bloc will cooperate with each other in disaster management and reach out to countries which are hit by disasters, " Mishra, who earlier spearheaded key policies like the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) and the India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP), told PTI. "And since India has been a leader in disaster management, the preparatory…