📢Our upcoming dialogue, 'Can We Survive and Thrive in Hotter Cities?' will be held on Monday, June 3rd, 2024 from 5:30PM IST where the aim is to foreground the need for a new approach to heat management as we think about cooler futures. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… (1/4)

In Carbon Brief, Suravee Nayak spoke on the need to address the larger developmental problem of coal geographies by building communities’ capacities – from education to employment – so they can have alternative, sustainable livelihoods.
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NEW: India is poised to face severe health and economic risks if it fails to tackle air pollution and heat in tandem.

New book chapter, co-authored by Annanya Mahajan, in 'The Climate-Health-Sustainability Nexus' (Springer) finds a severe lack of evidence on the synergistic…

.Navroz Dubash on 'South Asia Chat', a podcast by Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) - NUS :

'In India, climate change understood as climate change is unlikely to rise to the political agenda. But climate change understood as the sum of its implications for people's lifestyle and economic choices is more…

At the recent International Conference on Comparative Public Policy by JCPA/ICPA and the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Easwaran J. Narassimhan (@na_easwaran) presented a paper on ‘how different policy approaches shape green industrial policy objectives…

#Hiring : Research Associate/Senior Research Associate, Adaptation and Resilience at SFC. Details: sustainablefutures.org/careers/

We are looking for someone interested in understanding how climate impacts are changing the Indian economy, society and politics, and in using rigorous…

“Policy emphasis on ‘resource adequacy’ comes from a long history of scarcity in Indian electricity and leads to a perception that to meet higher demand we need to add more,” Ashwini K Swain in The Morning Context.

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Shibani Ghosh is moderating an online panel discussion on the role of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in abating river pollution on May 2, 2 pm IST. Registration: bit.ly/3U9o4Sj

Organised by Scaling City Institutions for Asia and India (SCI-AI), Global Water and…

Shibani Ghosh quoted in Business Standard on why the articulation of a fundamental right in the context of climate change is significant - 'The (Supreme) Court has worded the right quite broadly and it can be invoked in a variety of cases, whether those raising concerns relating to…

We are #hiring for the position of 'Fellow/Associate Fellow, Adaptation and Resilience'. Details: sustainablefutures.org/careers/. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with the first review in mid-May.

Applicants should have expertise in the areas of climate adaptation like…

In South China Morning Post, Bhargav Krishna said health professionals in India are struggling to make the case for health to be a key factor in air pollution policymaking alongside technology availability and finances.

“We need accurate data to be able to do effective costing studies which we…

📽️ At our launch event, Prof. Kalpana Balakrishnan (Sri Ramachandra Institute Of Higher Education) said that climate change will challenge our traditional view that societal progress and disease patterns follow a linear path from developing to developed status. 'Climate change is going to mix everything up.…

.WRI India will present key insights derived from the state-level assessment in the transport sector at the #ETPIWebinar jointly hosted with Prayas, Energy Group & Sustainable Futures Collaborative under the ETPI initiative.
Register now: wri.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Date- 25 April, Time: 3 pm

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In CNN, Aditya Valiathan Pillai wrote: Climate impacts do shape voter demands — though this tends to filter through as anxieties about livelihood and continued welfare support, rather than in a neatly defined area of politics labeled “climate.” edition.cnn.com/2024/04/19/opi…