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Opinions
Adaptation and Resilience
Opinion: India is on the climate crisis front line. So why isn’t that an election issue?
Aditya Valiathan Pillai
CNN Opinion | 20 April 2024
Climate won’t be a major issue in India’s upcoming six-week-long national election, unlike in Australia, the UK, and US, where elections can hinge on climate policy positions. But it will shape Indian elections in definitive but under-the-radar ways.
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SFC Perspectives
Adaptation and Resilience
Climate Policy
Energy Transitions
Environmental Governance and Policy
SFC Perspectives on Adaptation and Resilience, Climate Policy, Energy Transitions, and Environmental Governance and Policy
SFC
SFC | 19 March 2024
SFC Perspectives are intended to stimulate discussion by providing an overview of key issues and avenues for action to inform India’s sustainable development trajectory.
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SFC Perspectives
Adaptation and Resilience
Perspectives on Adaptation and Resilience: Building systems that allow India to adapt to climate impacts
Aditya Valiathan Pillai and Tamanna Dalal
SFC | 18 March 2024
The scale and complexity of the climate challenge merits serious consideration of systemic change, and a re-examination of what is needed for economy and society to thrive in an era of frequent, and often ravaging, climate impacts.
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Journal articles
Adaptation and Resilience
Environmental Governance and Policy
Impact of heatwaves on all-cause mortality in India: A comprehensive multi-city study
Jeroen de Bont, Amruta Nori-Sarma et al.
Environment International | 22 February 2024
The authors found strong evidence of heatwave impacts on daily mortality. Longer and more intense heatwaves were linked to an increased mortality risk, however, resulted in a lower burden of heatwave-related deaths.
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Adaptation and Resilience
Heatwaves will get worse. Invest in adapting now.
Aditya Valliathan Pillai and Satchit Balsari
Hindustan Times | 20 May 2023
India’s recent heat deaths are not outliers. They signal a dismal future unless we start taking the urgent threat of heat seriously.
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Books and book chapters
Adaptation and Resilience
Climate Governance and Federalism in India
Aditya Valiathan Pillai and Navroz K Dubash
Cambridge University Press | 11 May 2023
The chapter puts forward a synthetic account of the forces shaping climate governance in India’s federal architecture, building on descriptions of environmental federalism; state actions in climate policy; and several recent policy moves by both the Centre and states.
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Opinions
Adaptation and Resilience
The gaps in India’s ‘heat action plans’
Aditya Valiathan Pillai
CarbonBrief | 26 March 2023
The Indian government’s primary policy response to the life-threatening heat comes in the form of “heat action plans”. These plans urge a healthy mix of different solution types but most plans do not account for local context, are underfunded and are poor at identifying and targeting vulnerable groups.
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Opinions
Adaptation and Resilience
Forging a national consensus on climate adaptation is key
Aditya Valliathan Pillai
Hindustan Times | 7 September 2022
Adaptation is best seen as a long-term anti-poverty measure whose policy relevance grows as the zone of climate vulnerability expands on the Indian map
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Opinions
Adaptation and Resilience
Karnataka’s crumbling coastline shows climate battles are political
Aditya Valiathan Pillai
Scroll | 30 March 2022
As the sea ravages coastal settlements, seawalls are springing up. But real solutions lie elsewhere, far away from the coast.