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
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
Landing India’s Renewable Energy Ambitions: Reckoning Community Land Dependencies and Opportunities as Part of Energy Transition Planning
Landstack | 18-20 November 2025
Rashi Agarwal presented at the India Land and Development Conference (ILDC) 2025, organised by Landstack, from 18-20 November 2025. She focused on the need for mapping human and non-human community dependents that are often impacted by clean energy transitions; laying out the opportunities that could be explored across the lifecycle of the renewable energy project.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
International Seminar on Reimagining Decentralisation in Kerala: Local Governance for a Sustainable Future
Grameena Patana Kendram Research Centre | 26 Oct 2025
“The Kerala State Disaster Management Authority [and other agencies] have been supporting the Local Self-Government Department [and the local self-governments in their climate resilience and disaster management efforts]. However, going forward, how do we ensure that this attains more continuity, and how can it be embedded into the system itself? There are national and state-level legal frameworks for issues such as waste management, but such an instrument is lacking for climate change; currently, disaster-related aspects alone are being taken under the Disaster Management Act. We need to understand how perhaps a climate change related legislation can do a huge part in institutionalising the actions that we are talking about right now” – Neha Kurian spoke on the significance of legislative processes in streamlining climate change and disaster management action at the local level.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
India’s Pathways to COP30: Advancing Climate Resilience, Equity & Sustainable Development
Sphere India and IIT Roorkee | 24 October 2025
“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 marginalised communities in decision-making processes, and investing in gender-disaggregated data, capacity building, and locally led solutions. Embedding these approaches across all levels of governance is essential to making climate adaptation equitable, sustainable, and transformative” – Sony R K spoke in a multi-stakeholder consultation.
