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Climate change | Adaptation | Resilient society | Policy research and advisory |
Terrified of inaction, not climate change.
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Joined November 2009
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., Senior Program Manager, Energy and Resilience, WRI India shares her views on the government's #renewableenergy plan for Ladakh as outlined in #Budget2023
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#Budget2023 'Results based financing for select schemes' jumps out. Will be interesting to see how this is monitored and evaluated. Currently, the only physical and financial progress is measured for most rural development schemes.
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How to explain degrowth, feat ChatGPT. 🧵
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NEW: In today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows Exxon scientists predicted global warming with shocking skill & accuracy between 1977 & 2003, contradicting the company's decades of climate denial. THREAD.
📰No pay wall for 2 weeks: bit.ly/ExxonKnew2poin
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Where and I write about the amendments to #India's #energyconservation law & how it supports the #NetZero goals.
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Breaking News: Taliban issued a new ruling in Balkh province, Afghanistan, stating that women are not allowed to visit male doctors !!
And, no education to women as well, so no female doctors either !!
#Afghanistan #Taliban
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Excellent conversations at workshop on #monitoring #evaluation and #learning in #EnergyAccess interventions in Nairobi. Glad to be spending time with our partners-
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Thread time. Here's the thing about . It's not a car company. Tesla is a company that has to make cars in order to sell its real product: Emissions Credits.
Let me explain. Back in 2012, the EPA put out new, strident emissions standards for new vehicles fleetwide. 1/
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Could we just decarbonize cruise liners and make them green?
Not exactly. Here’s why:
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Cruise ships are not at all my cup of tea, but if you can decarbonize them, what is the problem? Why is your granny’s vacation not worth decarbonizing but whatever *you* do on holiday is? Strikes me as trying to impose your aesthetic preferences on others.
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Sustainability in old hindi movies. 😬
Watched some of my favorite Hrishikesh Mukherjee movies this past weekend.
Couldn’t help but notice this one men’s silk robe that kept making an appearance over and over again.
Om Prakash in Chupke Chupke
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A doctor friend is studying MD & has a course on disaster management. She told that the professor of that course listens to "Climate Emergency"! @SunoIndia_in
He heard the story we did with @masfiqhazarika and made it mandatory to discuss in his class!
sunoindia.in/climate-emerge
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We are excited to announce that we will be hosting "Accelerating Clean Energy (ACE) in India" from October 18-19 in Delhi.
Please register for both offline & virtual participation here: wri-india.org/events/acceler
#RacetoACE #AchievingSDG7 #EventAnnouncement #SaveTheDate
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I feel like we'd have more productive conversations about agroecology, regen ag, sustainable intensification, and feeding 10 billion while hitting climate and other environmental goals if more people just acknowledged the tradeoffs in this paper abstract:
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A List of Things People Blamed on Bicycles
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A crusade against pastoralism in the . So should we give up the idea of agroecology & high nature value farming? As a landscape researcher, I am very uncomfortable with George Monbiot‘s view. Some thoughts in a thread.
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India’s food systems is vulnerable to the impact of climate change, with about 194 million people struggling for food & nutritional security. Parvathi Preethan & talk about 'transformative adaption', a potential solution [Published in 2021].
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In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods.
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Big story in Norway this summer is a walrus we've named Freya has made it to our shores and is touring the country, laying around and sinking boats
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Our new paper is now online (open access).
Climate Change: the missing discourse in the Indian Parliament
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If you think commercial aviation is a disaster for the climate, wait to hear numbers about the impact of private jets.
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Mick Wallace, leftist member of the European parliament: "Why are we so quiet about challenging the US when they threaten human rights?"
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Sometimes I feel like leaving this job. Might as well let it all burn and regenerate.
No country is truly interested in climate action.
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The court ruled 6-3 that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming. apne.ws/CeZmYMb
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The underdeveloped west. We should probably send our armies to civilise them.
Such human rights violations are a major barrier towards climate action.
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Abortion rights advocates gather outside the Supreme Court on Friday morning after the 6-3 ruling was announced. wapo.st/3u1GS9D
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McKeesport, PA added to the "We Ruined Our Own Cities" file. 1/7
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#ACEF2022 | Peeling the Onion: Monitoring, Evaluation and other Acronyms for Assessment and Learning in Energy Access
Follow this #thread for highlights from the event
Watch the full event here: youtube.com/watch?v=0MXfkV
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Session on monitoring and evaluation in energy acess. I am speaking on climate resilience integration.
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WRI India is hosting a side event at the Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2022 titled Peeling the Onion: Monitoring, Evaluation and other Acronyms for Assessment and Learning in #EnergyAccess.
📅 16 June
⏰ 5:30 PM - 7 PM IST
Register here: lnkd.in/dp5UdjPR
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-For 1st time in existence (since 1986) it's being asked to seek approval b4 publishing any documents. Researchers, scientists r wary tht move will undermine WII's academic & research integrity. science.thewire.in/environment/wi
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Join us as we discuss monitoring and evaluation in energy access projects. And how resilience can be integrated in M&E!
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Meet our speakers who will share their knowledge & expertise at @WRIIndia side event dedicated to #MonitoringandEvaluation in #EnergyAccess at @ACEF_Forum by @ADB_HQ
#BeyondImpact
Join us for the event on June 16 by registering here: asiacleanenergyforum.adb.org/side-event-pee
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I am speaking at the in the Thematic Track session titled 'Cross-Sectoral Applications of Renewable Energy systems' on 16th June.
Follow this link to register bit.ly/3FF3vFB
#cleanenergy #renewableenergy #climateaction #climategoals #cleanenergytransition
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Wealthy nations neither curbing emissions at the required rate nor providing adaptation finance.
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I provide inputs to this article by on benefits of developing #sustainabletaxonomy and why it can help bring much needed #adaptationfinance to the country.
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What can farmers do to adapt to extreme heat? I speak to Tanika Godbole of to discuss the 'what'
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As record heatwaves hit India, how do we prepare ourselves to face impending threats to food security? My colleague @namginoya weighs in on this piece in @dwnews. #WorldEnvironmentDay dw.com/en/how-can-ind
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This path-breaking initiative by Govt. of #Nagaland, in partnership with MRDF, SPI & other partners, aims to fast-track socio-economic development & empower the local Konyak Naga community with improved livelihood opportunities.
New🎞️ coming soon!
#GreenTheGap #EnergyAccess
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