Microplastics: An Overlooked Contributor to India’s Air Pollution

28 January 2025

Airborne microplastics are increasingly linked to serious health risks yet they remain unmonitored and unregulated in India. How can we better study and address these pollutants?

Ishita Srivastava

Pollution Regulation in India: Institutional and Legislative Conundrums

Economic & Political Weekly | 11 Jan 2025

Part of special issue ‘Review of Environment and Development’

Shibani Ghosh

Extreme heat in India needs funds to fix

India Development Review | 26 June 2024

The recent spate of deadly heatwaves highlights the need for long-term systemic solutions, which come with a hefty price tag. Here’s how India can foot the bill.

Tamanna Dalal

Domesticating Climate Change: The Evolution of Indian Climate Politics and Policy

Economic & Political Weekly | 11 Jan 2025

Part of special issue ‘Review of Environment and Development’

Navroz K Dubash

Annual Report 2023-24: Building the Foundations for a Sustainable Future

Our team, highlights from the launch, our work across the four research areas, academic and policy engagements, and more

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

Our areas
of work

Adaptation and Resilience

Building systems that allow India to adapt to multiple and increasingly severe climate impacts

Climate Policy

Mapping, strategising, and enabling a development-centric, climate-ready state

Energy Transitions

Rethinking the configuration of technology, politics, and institutions to build a 21st century energy system

Environmental Governance and Policy

Limiting the threat of environmental pollution through health-focused, systemic transformations

Our events

Past Event

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

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Past Event

Launch Event: Introducing the Sustainable Futures Collaborative (SFC)

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Featuring opening remarks by N.K. Singh, Chair, 15th Finance Commission and a panel discussion on ‘Building the foundations for a sustainable future’.

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Public engagement

India Today Environment Conclave 2025 | 4 February 2025

“While climate change is global, a lot of climate action needs to happen locally at the national and sub-national levels. Currently, most solutions are emerging from the global north and are very carbon-centric. We need to shift from a purely carbon-centric approach towards alternate solutions that are development-centric and climate resilience-focused” – Easwaran Narassimhan spoke in the ‘Climate Change- Local action in a Global Crisis’ panel at the India Today Environment – Sustainability Conclave 2025, in Bengaluru.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Sarada Prasanna Das was a speaker at the ‘Just Transition Dialogues: Empowering Youth for Economic Diversification in Indian Coal Regions’ organised by the Just Transition Research Centre at IIT-Kanpur on 19 June 2024.

IN THE NEWS

Mounting economic costs of India’s killer smog

France 24 | 26 November 2024

“From missing a day at work to developing chronic illnesses, the health costs associated with that, to premature death and the impact that has on the family of the person”, Bhargav Krishna explained the costs adding up in every phase during smog season in India to France 24 (AFP).