Is net zero net positive? Opportunities & challenges for pursuing a socio-economically sensitive net-zero transition for India

Climate Policy | 26 November 2024

Easwaran Narassimhan, Tarun Gopalakrishnan et al.

Managing air quality: Answer is in airsheds

Hindustan Times | 28 October 2024

Four key issues to consider for effectively implementing an airshed-level approach to air quality management

Shibani Ghosh and Bhargav Krishna

Why closing schools does not protect children from air pollution

Scroll.in | 28 November 2023

It absolves educational institutions and government agencies of their responsibility towards ensuring clean air while hampering learning outcomes.

Arunesh Karkun and Abinaya Sekar

The Regulatory and Market Landscape for Climate Finance Into India’s Renewable Energy Sector

13 November 2024

This brief analyses the challenges to RE deployment in India and ways to address them.

Aman Srivastava, Srishti Jain et al

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

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

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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Past Event

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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Public engagement

Climate Change: South Asia’s Biggest Threat
The Democracy Forum | 18 November 2023

“Adapting to climate change means not just addressing the immediate impacts of a climate disaster but planning to address those we haven’t even foreseen the scale of yet–intense and long heatwaves, storm surges, or sea level rises” – Bhargav Krishna at a webinar on ‘Climate Change: South Asia’s Biggest Threat?’ organised by The Democracy Forum.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

At a training workshop on heat action plans for Rajasthan’s government officials and health experts, organised by NRDC and NDMA in October, Tamanna Dalal discussed gaps in India’s response to extreme heat. She highlighted the need to leverage centrally sponsored schemes such as MGNREGA and Nagar Van Yojana to finance heat action plan implementation.

IN THE NEWS

Mounting economic costs of India’s killer smog

France 24 | 26 November 2024

“From missing a day at work to developing chronic illnesses, the health costs associated with that, to premature death and the impact that has on the family of the person”, Bhargav Krishna explained the costs adding up in every phase during smog season in India to France 24 (AFP).