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Director of Climate presenting at on the inaugural session of Energizing Agriculture and Enabling Just Energy Transitions in South Asia Conference.
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Please join and on 7th February at 2PM IST for 'Integrating renewable energy in agricultural value chains: Experience from developing countries' session at regional knowledge forum. Please register for the session here - bit.ly/3X4whXg
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india.energypolicy.solutions by & to simulate scenarios of GHG emission reduction using a wide range of policy levers & see the feedback effects on jobs, health, govt revenues, energy imports, etc. Here's an intro video by
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climatewatchdata.org by & partners to compare climate commitments made by countries (NDCs, LTS, Net Zero) for your topic of interest - e.g. links with SDGs, finance estimates, loss & damage concerns, gender & youth. You can download raw data & watch demos.
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I will be speaking in this program this weekend. Here is a list of the #data #dashboards I will be showing to discuss opportunities and challenges for climate action in various sectors.
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The much-anticipated #SoLAR Regional Forum is here and we look forward to welcoming 100-plus guests from the #SouthAsia region and several countries in #Africa at who will talk about #solar #irrigation #groundwater and #JustEnergyTransitions in #agriculture. Hybrid mode.
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We're excited to announce @IWMI_ & its partners are organizing Regional Knowledge Forum as part of its @SwissDevCoop-funded project #SoLAR to deliberate on Energizing Agriculture & Enabling Just Transitions in South Asia in @iitgn from 6-8 February. Read
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Australia needs to choose someone new to be on their currency. I think the choice is obvious.
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#BREAKING Australia to remove royals from banknotes, central bank says
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Glad to be coorganizing this Regional Forum with and others.
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and will be sharing their work on 'integrating decentralised renewable energy in agriculture value chains' along with
Join us at or online for a discussion with experts from SEWA, TRIF, PFAN, and
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We're excited to announce & its partners are organizing Regional Knowledge Forum as part of its -funded project #SoLAR to deliberate on Energizing Agriculture & Enabling Just Transitions in South Asia in from 6-8 February. Read➡️bit.ly/3l48SIl
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Wishing you all a very Happy #WorldWetlandsDay from the banks of Bhoj Wetland, a 1000 yr old ecological heritage & #Ramsar site of Bhopal, MP, India. is organising host of activities in state to mark the day.
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Will continue this #Budget2023 thread tomorrow with a focus on climate resilience. For now, here are the budget docs
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The #Budget focus on scientific management of dry waste and wet waste is important. Equally important are the opportunities to create decent jobs in waste management esp. for women - like this initiative to train women to drive waste collection vehicles
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A picture to end the year with!
Over 800 women across Karnataka are driving waste collection trucks in gram panchayats. Women's self help groups are being trained to run solid waste units as micro-enterprises through formal arrangements with panchayats. #womenslivelihoods
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On the urban side, #Budget2023 called for incentives and reforms to improve the creditworthiness of cities for municipal bonds. This should include climate considerations through KPIs and capacity building (as the NIUA's CITIIS 2.0 program is doing in a few states).
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On the rural side, it is startling that the ILO's recent report on jobs in nature-based solutions found that of about 75 mn NBS jobs worldwide, about 80% are in India's MGNREGA - which is used for watershed management, plantations, etc. #Budget
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As a digression on green jobs, it is worth noting that in 90% of rural counties in the U.S., green jobs outnumber fossil fuel jobs. #Budget
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The planned framework for pumped hydro as energy storage is timely. Of all renewable energy options, rooftop solar PV needs the least land and creates the most jobs per MW – targeted support and innovative business models can unlock its full potential. #Budget
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With 100 mn+ workers, MSMEs=jobs. Rs 9000 crore (~$1 bn) of credit infusion for #MSMEs is very important because they have so much potential to upgrade to energy efficiency & renewable energy - measures that will save energy & pay back costs - but lack access to upfront capital.
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1- Viability gap financing as has been announced in this #Budget for battery storage. We also need it for offshore wind & hydrogen electrolysers.
2- Credit risk guarantees to reduce the cost of capital
3- Demand aggregation as was done for LEDs and electric buses
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Rs 37000 crores for green energy comes to about $4 bn. The investment required for green energy (RE, EVs, GH2, battery storage) is to the tune of $30 bn a year on average in this decade. This can come mostly from private sources. But this budget allocation can be catalytic by...
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A 100 years ago, the Indian #Budget was called a gamble on the monsoon. Now we look to it for policies that will shield us from a changing climate. Far from a year's balancing of revenues & expenditures, we look to it for the drivers of economic growth over the coming decades. 🧵
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. shares his views on the credit guarantee for MSMEs through a revamped scheme to be effective from 1 April 2023 announced in the #Budget2023 earlier today.
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A boost to #MSME #CreditGuaranteeScheme with the Infusion of 9000 crores to corpus (can mobilise addnl collateral-free credit of up to 2LCr) & reduction in cost of credit by 1% can strengthen MSME’s ability to undertake much-needed capital investments in the sector #Budget2023
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#Budget2023 credit guarantee for MSMEs with capital infusion of 9000cr is welcome step. Credit growth was over 30.6% during Jan-Nov '22, and is expected to grow further with these enabling measures. This enables MSMEs to diversify their operations and create more jobs.
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Register now for tomorrow’s joint training with #ClimateWatch and #SystemsChangeLab. We’ll explore new features and data on the platforms and learn how to gain insights, generate visuals, and more to better understand progress toward climate action.
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The 17th 5-Institute Budget Seminar 2023 - Unpacking the Union Budget 2023-24 to be organised by NCAER on February 6 at 10:30 am at NCAER T2 Auditorium, New Delhi
#UnionBudget2023 #Finance #Macroeconomics
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The book has 7 chapters:
Chapter 1: Introduction - motivates the book
Chapter 2: Organisation of the G20 Finance Track - discusses the commitments in the Finance Track in areas of financial regulation, organisation of the FT and the working groups of the FT
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A special lecture by Prof. Maura McLaughlin, Eberly Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, USA, (Sarojini Damodaran Fellow) on the topic "Pulsars : Timekeepers of the Cosmos" on 29th January 2023 at 4 pm. All are welcome.
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How will the conflict in Europe impact the global transition to clean energy?
To replace Russian natural gas, Europe is securing more Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) imports AND investing in renewable energy, putting the achievability of climate targets into question [2/6]
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#TheElephantWhisperers is a fascinating short film about respect, love and bonds between humans and animals. Not surprised with the #Oscars2023 nod. Must watch.
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❗️ We can confirm that Auckland, Kumeu has observed 79% of its normal *summer* rainfall in just 15 hours today (166 mm).
Albany, North Shore has recorded 75% of its normal summer rain.
It is possible that parts of Auckland will receive an entire summer's worth of rain in a day.
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The rain in Auckland yesterday was what climate scientists call a record-shattering event. Horrible stuff.
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We're discussing expectations from #Budget 2023 in #India's G20 year, with
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Set a reminder ⏰ to tune in this 📅 Monday, 6 pm
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The nice folks at climatewatchdata.org are doing a session on how to access raw data & create custom visuals. 31 Jan 8:30 p.m. IST
And a demo of the very cool systemschangelab.org which tracks 70 indicators of global climate action.
wri.zoom.us/webinar/regist #ClimateWatch
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