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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 20h

4/4 – Jo Hendy, New Zealand Climate Change Commission
– Weilin Chiu, Australian Climate Change Authority
– Director Kang Yoo-sik, International Cooperation Division, Republic of Korea’s Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth

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What does climate governance look like in the Asia-Pacific region? How can we strengthen climate governance through effective, evidence-based policy advice? What role can climate councils play in impl...

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 20h

3/4 Understand the opportunities to establish advisory bodies, and unique regional and country-based considerations for effective climate governance.
Speakers include:
– Dr. Christopher Bartlett, Vanuatu Ministry of Climate Change
– Betty Wang, Asia Society

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 20h

2/4 Join us for an engaging webinar with @asiasociety.org and International Climate Councils Network in which we will share work on climate governance, including local climate councils, in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 20h

1/4 What does climate governance look like in the Asia-Pacific region? How can we strengthen climate governance through effective, evidence-based policy advice? What role can climate councils play in implementing NDCs and raising ambition?

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 2d

4/4 Readiness Levels & Market Readiness Levels elsewhere, or concentrate its limited resources on areas where it can carve out leadership?

In this piece, Kashmeera Patel, @aman-srivastava.bsky.social & @easwaran.bsky.social reflect on these questions and what they could possibly mean.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 2d

3/4 However there are a broader set of questions:
– Should it align more closely with global RD&D trajectories in solar technologies or are there strategic advantages to selective misalignment and funding diversion?
– Should it seek to catch up on technologies already at advanced Technology

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 2d

2/4 India’s solar RD&D base is still evolving and leans heavily on imports, leaving the country exposed to supply-chain shocks and sovereignty risks. Read: www.sustainablefutures.org/blog/indias-...

India’s Solar Crossroads: Borrowing Innovation or Building Its Own?

Behind the 100 GW milestone lies a structural vulnerability: India’s solar research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) base is still evolving and leans heavily on imports, leaving the country expo...

www.sustainablefutures.org

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 2d

1/4 Our latest blog maps India’s public solar research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) landscape and analyses whether the country should align with global trajectories or carve out its own leadership. Behind the 100 GW milestone lies a structural vulnerability:

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 5d

5/5 governance

- Grew to 31 staff, including 21 full-time researchers and 5 Visiting Fellows

The report also captures our communications and outreach efforts from the past year, along with new directions identified at our team retreat in June. Read the full report: bit.ly/4pRrBUb

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 5d

4/5 - Partnered with Himachal Pradesh (climate-focused Human Development Report) & Chhattisgarh (India’s first state-specific climate law)
- Co-organised ‘India 2047: Building a Climate-Resilience Future’ with Harvard University & MoEFCC, convening experts in science, health, labour, business, and

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 5d

the combined impact of heat & air pollution (Environment International, bit.ly/46PUhUK)
- Advanced national & global conversations on energy transition readiness, net-zero pathways, climate finance

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 5d

2/5 the first multi-city assessment of how Heat Action Plans are being implemented across India’s most heat-vulnerable cities bit.ly/4737WJz
- Published ground-breaking studies on daily mortality from air pollution (The Lancet Planetary Health, bit.ly/4gQqYGi) &

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 5d

1/5 We are delighted to present our Annual Report for 2024-25. bit.ly/4pRrBUb

A few highlights from the last year:
- Released our flagship report ‘Is India Ready for a Warming World?’ –

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 8d

2/4 Join us for an engaging webinar with @asiasociety.org and International Climate Councils Network, where we will share work on climate governance, including local climate councils, in the Asia-Pacific region. Understand the opportunities to establish advisory bodies,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 8d

4/4 We also outline our policy engagements, collaborations, communications, and outreach efforts, as well as our future research directions. We encourage you to read about our work, learn about our team, and continue engaging with us as we chart SFC’s future together.

Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 8d

3/4 Our Annual Report provides details on the research conducted in the last year, including heat action implementation, sectoral energy transitions, the health impacts of air pollution, the need for socio-economic net-zero transitions, and more.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 8d

2/4 It has certainly been a steep climb, and the journey ahead is yet long, but we take this opportunity to look back with pride at all that we’ve achieved, while maintaining a keen eye on the path we chart ahead.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 8d

1/4 It gives us immense pleasure to be able to present our second Annual Report, for 2024-25. shorturl.at/2hCya

It has been two years since SFC was established as a not-for-profit, independent research organisation – we say this with a mix of wonder and incredulity!

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 9d

3/3 In this piece, Kashmeera Patel, @amansrivastava.bsky.social, and @easwaran.bsky.social reflect on these questions and what they might mean for
India’s energy security, technological self-reliance, and long-term competitiveness.

Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 9d

2/3 India's RD&D base is still taking shape, and so far, public investment is leaning toward early-stage, incremental projects. As the innovation ecosystem evolves, it raises larger questions: should India follow global innovation trends, or define its own niches based on unique strengths?

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 9d

1/3 Our new blog maps India’s public solar research, development, & demonstration (RD&D) landscape and explores where the country is placing its bets – on tried-and-tested technologies like traditional crystalline silicon PV systems or emerging areas like perovskites. shorturl.at/wmJoA

India’s Solar Crossroads: Borrowing Innovation or Building Its Own?

Behind the 100 GW milestone lies a structural vulnerability: India’s solar research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) base is still evolving and leans heavily on imports, leaving the country expo...

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 9d

2/2 but India has reached a stage where we need a much more strategic whole systems approach to energy transition” - @ashwiniswain.bsky.social was quoted in @theguardian.com.

Read: theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?

As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 9d

1/2 “So far India’s approach to its energy transition goals has mostly been ad hoc and supply-centric rather than targeted to end users, because it comes from a scarcity mindset. This has worked out so far,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 11d

2/2 Read: www.thequint.com/climate-chan...

From Trump's 'Con Job' Claim to EU Rift, COP30 Won’t Be Easy in a Tipping World

Explained: The Quint decodes how the four biggest stakeholders–the US, China, the Global South, and the European Union–are doing their part (or not) in making COP30 a success.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 11d

1/2 @ndubash.bsky.social to @thequintindia.bsky.social - “The overarching point has to be that we think about how we weave our climate objectives into our development objectives. We cannot think about it as something that's out there and separate—something that we consider once a year at COPs”.

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