SFC recently held a dialogue with Nazaria, a Mumbai-based collective that equips youth from marginalised communities with creative tools, to explore how extreme heat can be visualised and told through everyday stories. Sonali Verma spoke with youth and their mothers about living with heat in Mumbai, especially inside their homes, what makes the city’s conditions more challenging, and the ways they adapt and find relief. Independent artist Pritish Bali also led a demonstration on using thermal imagery to document indoor heat. This workshop is part of a larger exhibit, ‘Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible: Indoor Heat, Unpaid Domestic Work, and Women’s Resilience’, which will be showcased at Godrej Design Lab’s Conscious Collective 2025 from 11-14 December, 2025.

“What we’ve seen from national as well as global evidence is that, even low to moderate exposures to air pollution, especially PM2.5, can lead to cardiovascular diseases, hypertension,  short- and long-term respiratory conditions like asthma attacks, as well as pre-mature births and low birth weight in babies, and various other cognitive developmental outcomes” – Bhargav Krishna in conversation with Earth Chakra, discusses how the threat of air pollution is a pan-India issue in cities beyond Delhi, such as Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Pune, in light of the rising air pollution in India’s urban centres.

“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 was a panellist in the International Seminar on Reimagining Decentralisation in Kerala: Local Governance for a Sustainable Future, organised by Grameena Patana Kendram Research Centre on 26 October 2025.

Bhargav Krishna spoke about feasible and affordable solutions to combat air pollution through the building and construction sector in the panel, ‘Breathe It or Beat It: Tackling Toxic Air’ at the 17th GRIHA Summit, from November 3-4, 2025. The Summit was organised by GRIHA Council and supported by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and TERI.

“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 at the multi-stakeholder consultation on ‘India’s Pathways to COP30: Advancing Climate Resilience, Equity & Sustainable Development’ organised by Sphere India with ICARS, IIT Roorkee on 24 October 2025.

Rashi Agarwal spoke in the panel ‘Pathways to Careers in Climate & Sustainability’ organised by The Hertie School and Hansraj College, Delhi University, on 29 October 2025. The conversation revolved around the panellists’ personal journeys into the sector, exploring the value of graduate education, discussing the skills and qualifications required, and navigating the evolving sustainability sector.