Sustainable Futures Collaborative
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1/2 Rashi Agarwal presented at the India Land and Development Conference (ILDC) 2025, organised by Landstack, from 18-20 November 2025. She spoke on ‘Landing India’s Renewable Energy Ambitions: Reckoning Community Land Dependencies and Opportunities as Part of Energy Transition Planning’,
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
1/2 Rashi Agarwal presented at the India Land and Development Conference (ILDC) 2025, organised by Landstack, from 18-20 November 2025. She spoke on ‘Landing India’s Renewable Energy Ambitions: Reckoning Community Land Dependencies and Opportunities as Part of Energy Transition Planning’,
1/3 "While disaster responses, especially to sudden-onset ones are often organic, setting up grass-root level structures and strengthening them by having instruments like local level disaster management plans can play a huge role in building disaster resilience not just at the local level,
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
1/3 "While disaster responses, especially to sudden-onset ones are often organic, setting up grass-root level structures and strengthening them by having instruments like local level disaster management plans can play a huge role in building disaster resilience not just at the local level,
1/2 #JobAlert: We’re #hiring a Research Lead/Associate Fellow, Energy Transitions in New Delhi. Our work focuses on explaining the entrenched patterns in the Indian energy sector, identifying key bottlenecks to a clean energy transition, and finding solutions to ease its challenges.
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
1/3 “We should plan and execute nested policy actions from local to airshed levels, make health the basis for crafting mitigation actions, build future-ready regulators, and move from palliative actions to root-cause driven sectoral transformations to build resilience to air pollution” -
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
1/3 “We should plan and execute nested policy actions from local to airshed levels, make health the basis for crafting mitigation actions, build future-ready regulators, and move from palliative actions to root-cause driven sectoral transformations to build resilience to air pollution” -
1/2 @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social will be a speaker at a webinar organised by Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, on "Beyond the Haze: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Air Pollution", highlighting how interdisciplinary insights—spanning medicine, public health policy,
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
1/2 @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social will be a speaker at a webinar organised by Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, on "Beyond the Haze: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Air Pollution", highlighting how interdisciplinary insights—spanning medicine, public health policy,
1/3 @ndubash.bsky.social in an editorial in @science.org - Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says, rather than what it does or is likely to do, is a problem for at least three reasons: ambition is normatively loaded and hard to compare across countries;
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
1/3 @ndubash.bsky.social in an editorial in @science.org - Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says, rather than what it does or is likely to do, is a problem for at least three reasons: ambition is normatively loaded and hard to compare across countries;
1/7 NEW ISSUE BRIEF: India’s #airpollution crisis cannot be solved without addressing key structural and institutional constraints such as reforming our environmental regulatory regime – one that remains under-capacitated, poorly equipped, and under-funded.
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
1/7 NEW ISSUE BRIEF: India’s #airpollution crisis cannot be solved without addressing key structural and institutional constraints such as reforming our environmental regulatory regime – one that remains under-capacitated, poorly equipped, and under-funded.
1/3 “Factoring health into air pollution management changes every decision you take at every stage of the process. It affects what you set as air quality standards, which depends on what evidence you have with respect to health outcomes; it changes what pollutants you regulate.
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
1/3 “Factoring health into air pollution management changes every decision you take at every stage of the process. It affects what you set as air quality standards, which depends on what evidence you have with respect to health outcomes; it changes what pollutants you regulate.
1/3 @ndubash.bsky.social in an editorial in @science.org - Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says, rather than what it does or is likely to do, is a problem for at least three reasons: ambition is normatively loaded and hard to compare across countries;
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
1/3 @ndubash.bsky.social in an editorial in @science.org - Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says, rather than what it does or is likely to do, is a problem for at least three reasons: ambition is normatively loaded and hard to compare across countries;
1/2 “The number of people who die from heat-related causes who were able to reach a health-care facility in time to be diagnosed accurately is a very small percentage. This is another reason reported deaths from extreme heat do not reflect the actual number” -
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
1/2 “The number of people who die from heat-related causes who were able to reach a health-care facility in time to be diagnosed accurately is a very small percentage. This is another reason reported deaths from extreme heat do not reflect the actual number” -
1/3 “In Delhi, there are a large number of sources that are present within the city like transport, waste burning, construction, road dust, and various other local sources, that contribute to say 35-40% of the air pollution. Then you have sources located just outside the city in peri-urban areas,
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
1/3 “In Delhi, there are a large number of sources that are present within the city like transport, waste burning, construction, road dust, and various other local sources, that contribute to say 35-40% of the air pollution. Then you have sources located just outside the city in peri-urban areas,
1/3 @ndubash.bsky.social in an editorial in @science.org - Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says, rather than what it does or is likely to do, is a problem for at least three reasons: ambition is normatively loaded and hard to compare across countries...
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
1/3 @ndubash.bsky.social in an editorial in @science.org - Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says, rather than what it does or is likely to do, is a problem for at least three reasons: ambition is normatively loaded and hard to compare across countries...
1/3 “What we’ve seen from national as well as global evidence is that, even low to moderate exposures to air pollution, especially PM2.5, can lead to cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, short- and long-term respiratory conditions like asthma attacks, as well as pre-mature births,
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
1/3 “What we’ve seen from national as well as global evidence is that, even low to moderate exposures to air pollution, especially PM2.5, can lead to cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, short- and long-term respiratory conditions like asthma attacks, as well as pre-mature births,
1/3 SFC recently held a dialogue with Nazaria, a Mumbai-based collective that equips youth from marginalised communities with creative tools, to explore how extreme heat can be visualised and told through everyday stories. Sonali Verma spoke with youth and their mothers,
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
1/3 SFC recently held a dialogue with Nazaria, a Mumbai-based collective that equips youth from marginalised communities with creative tools, to explore how extreme heat can be visualised and told through everyday stories. Sonali Verma spoke with youth and their mothers,
As #COP30 kicks off in Belém, Brazil, read the commentary by Isha Sharma, @aman-srivastava.bsky.social and Nikita Shukla on how climate multilateralism has evolved since 1992 — and how it can be strengthened through finance, governance, and trade.
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30 Years of Climate Talks: How Have the COPs Fared and What Next?
Explore 30 years of global climate negotiations, from Kyoto to Paris to COP30, what’s next for climate multilateralism, finance, and equity.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
As #COP30 kicks off in Belém, Brazil, read the commentary by Isha Sharma, @aman-srivastava.bsky.social and Nikita Shukla on how climate multilateralism has evolved since 1992 — and how it can be strengthened through finance, governance, and trade.
Read: sustainablefutures.org/blog/30-year...
Read: sustainablefutures.org/blog/30-year...
1/3 “What we’ve seen from national as well as global evidence is that, even low to moderate exposures to air pollution, especially PM2.5, can lead to cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, short- and long-term respiratory conditions like asthma attacks, as well as pre-mature births,
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
1/3 “What we’ve seen from national as well as global evidence is that, even low to moderate exposures to air pollution, especially PM2.5, can lead to cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, short- and long-term respiratory conditions like asthma attacks, as well as pre-mature births,
1/4 “The Kerala State Disaster Management and the Revenue Department have been making efforts to support the Local Self-Government Department. However, going forward, how do we ensure that this attains more continuity, and how can it be embedded into the system itself?
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
1/4 “The Kerala State Disaster Management and the Revenue Department have been making efforts to support the Local Self-Government Department. However, going forward, how do we ensure that this attains more continuity, and how can it be embedded into the system itself?
1/3 “India must soon present a roadmap to its climate commitments, with goals to reach by 2035, which would likely be cautious, allowing it to meet and possibly exceed them. There could be a peak-emission year around 2040-45 too, allowing a ramp-down of its emissions,
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
1/3 “India must soon present a roadmap to its climate commitments, with goals to reach by 2035, which would likely be cautious, allowing it to meet and possibly exceed them. There could be a peak-emission year around 2040-45 too, allowing a ramp-down of its emissions,
1/2 @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social spoke about feasible and affordable solutions to combat air pollution through the building and construction sector in the panel, ‘Breathe It or Beat It: Tackling Toxic Air’ at the 17th GRIHA Summit, from November 3-4, 2025, organised by GRIHA Council.
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
1/2 @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social spoke about feasible and affordable solutions to combat air pollution through the building and construction sector in the panel, ‘Breathe It or Beat It: Tackling Toxic Air’ at the 17th GRIHA Summit, from November 3-4, 2025, organised by GRIHA Council.
1/2 NEW BLOG: Global discourse on climate change has been moulded by multilateral negotiations through the annual Conferences of the Parties (COPs). This commentary by Isha Sharma, @aman-srivastava.bsky.social and Nikita Shukla traces the evolution of climate multilateralism,
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
1/2 NEW BLOG: Global discourse on climate change has been moulded by multilateral negotiations through the annual Conferences of the Parties (COPs). This commentary by Isha Sharma, @aman-srivastava.bsky.social and Nikita Shukla traces the evolution of climate multilateralism,
1/4 “Adaptation cannot be assumed to be inherently just; it must be intentionally designed to address existing inequities. This requires integrating gender and human rights mandates into national and state climate frameworks, ensuring inclusive governance that empowers women, youth, and,
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
1/4 “Adaptation cannot be assumed to be inherently just; it must be intentionally designed to address existing inequities. This requires integrating gender and human rights mandates into national and state climate frameworks, ensuring inclusive governance that empowers women, youth, and,
1/2 Rashi Agarwal spoke in the panel 'Pathways to Careers in Climate & Sustainability' organised by @hertieschool.bsky.social and Hansraj College, Delhi University on 29 October 2025.
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 AM
1/2 Rashi Agarwal spoke in the panel 'Pathways to Careers in Climate & Sustainability' organised by @hertieschool.bsky.social and Hansraj College, Delhi University on 29 October 2025.
The Government of Himachal Pradesh, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, released the climate-focused Himachal Pradesh State Human Development Report on Monday. SFC was proud to be the Lead Technical Anchor Institute in its preparation. Executive Summary: bit.ly/4oCduki
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The Government of Himachal Pradesh, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, released the climate-focused Himachal Pradesh State Human Development Report on Monday. SFC was proud to be the Lead Technical Anchor Institute in its preparation. Executive Summary: bit.ly/4oCduki
1/2 “While developing countries should certainly continue undertaking greater climate actions – in their own interests, enabled by their greater capacities – developed countries should not demand climate finance contributions from developing countries,
October 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
1/2 “While developing countries should certainly continue undertaking greater climate actions – in their own interests, enabled by their greater capacities – developed countries should not demand climate finance contributions from developing countries,
1/2 #OurTeamSpeaks: Nikita Shukla is a Research Associate in the Climate Policy vertical at Sustainable Futures Collaborative. Her work largely focuses on climate finance, technology, and energy modelling to drive a just and sustainable transition.
#climatepolicy #climatefinance #justtransition
#climatepolicy #climatefinance #justtransition
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
1/2 #OurTeamSpeaks: Nikita Shukla is a Research Associate in the Climate Policy vertical at Sustainable Futures Collaborative. Her work largely focuses on climate finance, technology, and energy modelling to drive a just and sustainable transition.
#climatepolicy #climatefinance #justtransition
#climatepolicy #climatefinance #justtransition