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

Ambient air pollution and daily mortality in ten cities of India: a causal modelling study

The Lancet Planetary Health | 4 July 2024

Over 33,000 deaths each year were attributable to short-term PM_2.5 exposures with a significant number of deaths observed even in cities not considered to have the problem of high air pollution

Jeroen de Bont, Bhargav Krishna et al.

Climate and development: What opportunities, what threats?

ODI’s Development Policy Review | 20 September 2024

It may be in the interests of developing countries to do development differently, but falling renewable energy prices by no means imply a post-equity climate politics.

Navroz K Dubash

Air Quality Regulation

Oxford University Press | 23 July 2024

Chapter in ‘The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India’ provides an overview of the regulatory and institutional framework that governs some of the major sources of air pollution in the country.

Shibani Ghosh

Towards Operationalising a New Climate Right for India

The India Forum | 19 September 2024

Unpacking the Ranjitsinh Judgment

Navroz K Dubash and Shibani Ghosh

Navigating pathways to a sustainable future by

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

Our areas
of work

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

Our events

Past Event

Launch Event: Introducing the Sustainable Futures Collaborative (SFC)

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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Public engagement

Short-Term Exposure To Air Pollution Kills 33,000 Indians Annually: Report
NDTV | 5 July 2024

Watch: Bhargav Krishna on NDTV’s ‘Left, Right & Centre’ on his study in The Lancet – “India needs to set a long-term goal of aligning more closely with WHO air quality guidelines. Currently, even cities meeting national standards are seeing a significant number of deaths, underscoring the need to strengthen our standards and redouble action.”

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Aman Srivastava spoke at Carbon Reset Summit, India’s first durable carbon removal summit in Mumbai on 8 October 2024, about the necessary policy frameworks to support emergent CO2 removal technologies. He highlighted the need for these frameworks to be designed in a way that complements mitigation actions, considers socio-environmental impacts, and strategically manages public finances.

IN THE NEWS

The rise of the truly cruel summer

The Economist | 26 June 2024

“You need to sit down with three data sets—income, electricity and water provision—and see where those are lowest. That’s where you need to go.” Aditya Valiathan Pillai on planning responses to deaths due to heat in India.