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38 images Created 23 May 2017

INDIA CLIMATE CHANGE

Christian Aid commissioned me to go back to India, one of my favourite posts, to shoot a story about climate change in West Bengal. The region is facing more frequent flooding as the Earth’s temperature rises but, ironically, millions of people live off the electrical grid. If people there adopt alternative energies, they would avoid creating a massive carbon footprint.
India was chosen as a focal point, because it represents a developing nation which is growing rapidly and therefore needs more energy to continue to grow. The business of coal – used to produce electricity - is currently high on the news agenda, with whispers of corruption surrounding its production and distribution, and continuing reports of the effects of coal fuelled power stations on climate change.
We visited a tribal communities living in affected areas in the Sundarbans to see how they are adapting to the effects on their environment. The shrinking Mangroves, rising waters, and increased number of cyclones, increased salinity, tidal inundation, flooding, erosion, water logging, rising sea levels.
The communities were provided training on different varieties of edible plants to grow, encouraged to rotate crops and create home garden and by introducing lift irrigation to create a fertile land on which to produce food for their families and surplus to sell at market..
Grass root NGO's are working to promote the use of sustainable energy, such as solar power, wind power, biofuels, to replace the reliance on fossil fuels. The hope is families will be able to rely on solar power avoiding the now widespread use of kerosene lamps and stoves which produce harmful fumes. A bird’s nest tangle of electrical cables in city slums will be a thing of the past along with a primitive form of biofuel: dung patties marked with handprints drying against a village hut.
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  • Gauri Moanda, 48,  uses a wood burning stove in her kitchen at her organic farm in village in Indroprastha, West Bengal, India Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Cow dung patties are set to dry on a wall to use as fuel in village in Indroprastha, West Bengal, India Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Views of Old Delhi's  electrical cabling systems in India Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Views of Old Delhi's  electrical cabling systems in India Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Savitri Devi poses for a portrait outside as she  pours kerosene at the self help shop for which she is the secretary, the shop distributes kerosene, sugar and salt in the village of Barmasia,  Jharkhand, India Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Bashnti Vahvakpa, 30, uses her wooden fuelled stove to cook in her mud hut at the tribal Shabar community  village that was displaced by floods in Indroprastha, West Bengal, India Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Sheila Devi, 38, a SAMVAD beneficiary who owns a D-light solar panel lamp in a village where a lift pump irrigation system has been installed in Lalpur, Jharkhand, India Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Jiyamuni Murmu, 35, in orange sari, a SAMVAD beneficiary shows her D-light solar panel lamp in Rupabad Jharkhand, India Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Sheila Devi, 38, a SAMVAD beneficiary who owns a D-light solar panel lamp in a village where a lift pump irrigation system has been installed in Lalpur, Jharkhand, India Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Men drink tea and play cards by the light of kerosene lamps at a roadside shop in the South 24 Parganas , West Bengal, India  Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • A view of Kolaghat thermal power plant in East Medinipur, India Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Fly ash covers  dead plants on the ground and hazens the air around a cement factory next to  Kolaghat thermal power plant in East Medinipur, India Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • labourers dig coal from the ground in Chitra coal mine Jharkhand, India Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Children play in the area near Kolaghat thermal power plant in East Medinipur, India Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • A woman fetches water from a manual water pump against the backdrop of the  Kolaghat thermal power plant in the Shantipur 1 Colonies East Medinipur, India Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Gauri Moanda, 48, fetches water from a pond  at her organic farm in village in Indroprastha, West Bengal, India Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Smoke rises from a coal burning stove at a tea shop in Palo Jhari Jharkhand, India Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Smoke rises from a coal burning stove at a tea shop in Palo Jhari Jharkhand, India Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Smoke rises from a coal burning stove at a tea shop in Palo Jhari Jharkhand, India Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • A view of Kolaghat thermal power plant in East Medinipur, India Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • labourers dig coal from the ground in Chitra coal mine Jharkhand, India Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Daily life scenes in Kolkata, India Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • labourers dig coal from the ground in Chitra coal mine Jharkhand, India Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Washed up images of  Durga statues stand at Kumortuli market in Kolkata, West Bengal, India Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Artisans make Durga statues for the upcoming Durga Puya festival at Kumortuli market in Kolkata, West Bengal, India Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Artisans make Durga statues for the upcoming Durga Puya festival at Kumortuli market in Kolkata, West Bengal, India Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Eroded mangrove area at a village in Indroprastha , West Bengal, India Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Views of Old Delhi's  electrical cabling systems in India Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Daily life scenes in Kolkata, India Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Eroded mangrove area at a village in Indroprastha , West Bengal, India Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Abisor Hansda 48, stands next to the water flow from a lift irrigation system recently installed in Barmasia,  Jharkhand, India Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Daily life at a mangrove village in Indroprastha, West Bengal, India Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Artisans make Durga statues for the upcoming Durga Puya festival at Kumortuli market in Kolkata, West Bengal, India Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Worshipers gather at a hindu temple in Madhupur Jharkhand, India Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Daily life in Rupabad Jharkhand, India Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • villagersgather to celebrate in Rupabad Jharkhand, India Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Images of Durga being prepared for the upcoming festival of Durga Puya at an artisan's shop in Kolkata , West Bengal, India Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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  • Children run along the beach of Diamond Harbor, West Bengal, India Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 (Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel for Christian Aid)
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