Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A two-day workshop on blue green nature based solutions for climate resilient planning was held at the School of Planning and Architecture in the city. It was organised by the department of environmental planning with support of UNICEF and GIZ India.
Kirtiman Awasthi, Senior Advisor, GIZ Delhi spoke on the wetlands management of biodiversity and climate protection to the participants of the workshop.
Advisors and Experts from GIZ Shambhavi Krishna, Kunal Bharat and Jyoti Kashypap, guided the participants and students of school of planning and architecture, on the tools and techniques to work out climate resilient plans sharing experiences from Madhya Pradesh, India and across on the wetlands and forest ecosystem services, participatory approaches to landscape planning for conservation of wetland.
Ritesh Kumar, Director, Wetlands International South Asia spoke on the importance of integrating wetlands as nature based solutions for district disaster management planning. Prof Rama Pandey Head of Landscape Department of School of Planning and Architecture Bhopalof coordinated the workshop and shared how this learning can help students to sharpen their work on climate planning.
Sarbjit Sahota, DRR Specialist, UNICEF India, highlighted that to build climate resilient systems we must actively adopt 'circular thinking' principles which would help develop flexible infrastructure, policies and practices like regenerative and nutrition sensitive agriculture.
Anil Gulati, Officer in Charge, UNICEF Madhya Pradesh, spoke to the students and participants to come out with workable solutions at ground which can be replicated. He along with Ravindra Pare Consultant with Public Health Engineering Department spoke on the water stress and traditional water bodies and shared experience of Indore.
Students of School of Planning and Architecture had done field work in Rewa district and are working to draw climate resilient plans for six areas in Rewa district, both urban and rural areas which will get sharpened by this workshop to look at nature based solutions on climate resilience.
