
Aditya Valiathan Pillai
@aditya_vpillai
Adaptation to climate change. Focus on policies, politics and institutions @SFC_India and @KingsCollegeLon. Formerly Fellow @cpr_india.
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Panel discussion on "Climate challenges & opportunities" Speakers - Oliver Harman from International Growth Centre, Aditya Pillai Sustainable Futures Collaborative, Minal Pathak from Ahmedabad University, Sugandha Srivastava from University of Oxford. GS cities require a significant innovation in data collection for #climateaction


My new book Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy will be published early next month by Cambridge University Press. Pre-order at a discount👇 South Asia edition following soon...



SFC was a technical partner for the NDMA India | राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण 🇮🇳 international workshop on #heatwaves 2025 in New Delhi on 13-14 February. The focus of the workshop was on advancing city-level heat action plans. Below are snapshots and key messages from the event. Aditya Valiathan Pillai addressed the


Is India ready for the extreme heat of a 1.5C world? In a new Sustainable Futures Collaborative report, we conduct the 1st multi-city analysis of the implementation of heat actions in India. We focused on 11% of the urban pop with some of the highest increases in heat risk. sustainablefutures.org/publication/is…



India isn't ready for extreme heat in a 1.5C world. And the lack of long-term heat actions + 🔺frequent heatwaves = higher heat mortality in the coming years. ✍️ Aditya Valiathan Pillai Tamanna Dalal Ishan Kukreti escandita🌻 Navroz K Dubash for Carbon Brief. carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why…

In this guest post Carbon Brief summarising our new report, co-authors & I lay out the gaps in India’s heat resilience actions, why they exist and how to fix them. We focus on long-term solutions and the grinding realities of implementing them carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why…


The South Asia edition of Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy Cambridge University Press is now available in India and elsewhere in the region for Rs595 in paperback (or Rs1569 kindle). See below or ask in your local book shop! amazon.in/dp/1009668374

In an oped The Indian Express summarising the findings of a new Sustainable Futures Collaborative report on India’s preparedness for extreme heat, we show that India’s actions focus on survival today. We need to start preparing for the deadly climate extremes of tomorrow. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

1/3 At ‘India 2047 Building a Climate-Resilient Future’, organised by The Mittal Institute at Harvard, Salata Institute, and MoEF&CC from 19-22 March 2025, Aditya Valiathan Pillai presented findings from SFC’s report on India's preparedness for a 1.5°C world, the current status of heat-related actions on
