Navigating pathways to a sustainable future by
Analysing issues at the frontier of addressing climate change, managing the energy transition, and limiting environmental threats in India and globally
Informing policymakers, stakeholders, and the public about key policy and governance levers, and their implications
Accelerating the transition to an environmentally and socially sustainable future by enabling strategic action for systemic change
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Upcoming
Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible: Indoor Heat, Unpaid Domestic Work, and Women’s Resilience
Co-created with women homemakers, this project documents their personal struggles with rising heat, and how women adapt with resourcefulness, finding small yet often inadequate ways to stay cool and ease discomfort. Through their voices, we glimpse their struggles, creativity, and the everyday strength that keeps homes and care going in a warming world.
11 December 2025
9:00 am
to
14 December 2025
5:00 pm
Strengthening Climate Governance in Asia – Pacific
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? Join us for an engaging webinar with Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) 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, and unique regional and country-based considerations for effective climate governance.
Book Discussion |‘More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy’
A discussion of the book, ‘More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy’ by the author Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, a historian of science, technology and the environment, a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and a professor at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, with Elizabeth Chatterjee, Assistant Professor of Environmental History at the University of Chicago, and Ashwini K Swain, Fellow, SFC.
Climate Finance at COP 29: What New, Collective, Quantified Ambition?
A discussion on the state of play on climate finance negotiations going into COP 29, with Joe Thwaites (NRDC), Jonathan Beynon (CGD), and Avantika Goswami (CSE). Moderated by Aman Srivastava, Fellow, SFC
Public engagement
IN THE NEWS
‘All being poisoned slowly’: Air purifiers offer only limited respite from India’s chronic pollution
The Straits Times | 6 December 2025
“The absence of serious, scientific long-term solutions, in a way, is forcing people to depend on purifiers as the only way to breathe clean air for at least a few hours a day” – Bhargav Krishna quoted.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
Rethinking GRAP: How can we optimise the measures for the construction industry?
Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) | 2 Dec 2025
“The GRAP is designed as an emergency response to rapidly curb emissions and signal the severity of air pollution, and therefore cannot function as a year-round measure. However, given that air quality remains poor throughout the year, stronger continuous regulations, easier compliance mechanisms, and strict enforcement, especially for construction and demolition waste, are essential, alongside improved monitoring capacity in SPCBs, PCCs, and municipalities. While technological solutions are well understood, the real challenge lies in on-ground implementation, requiring a renewed focus on first principles: reducing emissions at source, containing their spread, and holding violators accountable. To meet today’s environmental burdens, India must reform outdated regulatory institutions and empower the CAQM to more effectively coordinate action across the NCR, potentially with stronger backing from the Centre” – Arunesh Karkun spoke at the launch of the report, ‘From policy to practice: Evaluating the impacts of construction activities in Delhi NCR’, on 2 December 2025.
IN THE NEWS
The Hidden Cost of Heat, ft. Aditya Valiathan Pillai
The Boring Climate Podcast | 2 December 2025
“Heat is the ‘invisible’ disaster – it’s all around us, kills as many, perhaps more people, in India than other extreme weather events, yet doesn’t capture public attention like floods or cyclones” – Aditya Valiathan Pillai spoke on the hidden cost of heat, ways to act upon it, the policy interventions we need as our planet warms, and why this is not just a climate problem, but very much a human problem.
