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Thirty and Still Dirty: Why Do Delhi’s Roads Remain So Polluted?

20 February 2025

This blog looks at some of the historical, emergent challenges behind vehicular emissions and explores how the city can be redesigned to serve its people and not its vehicles.

Arunesh Karkun & Nazneen

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Unified action needed to tackle extreme heat and air pollution

Mongabay India | 24 June 2024

The combined impact of air pollution and heatwaves can be far more severe than individual impacts. Adopting unified protective health measures against both issues is crucial.

Annanya Mahajan & Tamanna Dalal

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Extreme heat in India needs funds to fix

India Development Review | 26 June 2024

The recent spate of deadly heatwaves highlights the need for long-term systemic solutions, which come with a hefty price tag. Here’s how India can foot the bill.

Tamanna Dalal

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Microplastics: An Overlooked Contributor to India’s Air Pollution

28 January 2025

Airborne microplastics are increasingly linked to serious health risks yet they remain unmonitored and unregulated in India. How can we better study and address these pollutants?

Ishita Srivastava

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Annual Report 2023-24: Building the Foundations for a Sustainable Future

Our team, highlights from the launch, our work across the four research areas, academic and policy engagements, and more

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Analysing issues at the frontier of addressing climate change, managing the energy transition, and limiting environmental threats in India and globally

Informing policymakers, stakeholders, and the public about key policy and governance levers, and their implications

Accelerating the transition to an environmentally and socially sustainable future by enabling strategic action for systemic change

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Adaptation and Resilience

Building systems that allow India to adapt to multiple and increasingly severe climate impacts

Climate Policy

Mapping, strategising, and enabling a development-centric, climate-ready state

Energy Transitions

Rethinking the configuration of technology, politics, and institutions to build a 21st century energy system

Environmental Governance and Policy

Limiting the threat of environmental pollution through health-focused, systemic transformations

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Climate Finance at COP 29: What New, Collective, Quantified Ambition?

A discussion on the state of play on climate finance negotiations going into COP 29, with Joe Thwaites (NRDC), Jonathan Beynon (CGD), and Avantika Goswami (CSE). Moderated by Aman Srivastava, Fellow, SFC

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Launch Event: Introducing the Sustainable Futures Collaborative (SFC)

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Featuring opening remarks by N.K. Singh, Chair, 15th Finance Commission and a panel discussion on ‘Building the foundations for a sustainable future’.

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India Today Environment Conclave 2025 | 4 February 2025

“While climate change is global, a lot of climate action needs to happen locally at the national and sub-national levels. Currently, most solutions are emerging from the global north and are very carbon-centric. We need to shift from a purely carbon-centric approach towards alternate solutions that are development-centric and climate resilience-focused” – Easwaran Narassimhan spoke in the ‘Climate Change- Local action in a Global Crisis’ panel at the India Today Environment – Sustainability Conclave 2025, in Bengaluru.

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Scientists raise concerns as the US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide

AP News | 6 March 2025

“They were part of a handful of sensors in many developing countries and served as a reference for understanding what air quality was like. They were also a well-calibrated and unbiased source of data to cross-check local data if there were concerns about quality”, Bhargav Krishna commented on the loss as the US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide.

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India’s steel industry contemplates potential fallout from Trump administration tariffs

The Associated Press | 4 March 2025

Building more coal-based blast furnaces make it more difficult for India to export its steel in the future, particularly to Europe, Easwaran Narassimhan was quoted in The Associated Press. “China’s steel production is less emissions-intensive, which means it’s going to face a lesser impact from European carbon taxes. Any amount of short-term pain today is going to be worth in the long run” – he added.

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Multi-agency collaboration needed to arrest heatwave: experts

The Hindu | 14 February 2025

At the National Disaster Management Authority’s national workshop on heatwaves 2025, Aditya Valiathan Pillai emphasised the need for structural change in heatwave management, pointing out that city planners often neglect to include heat in their planning, instead treating it as a risk for health and disaster management to address once a heatwave hits.