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Rishika Pardikar

@rishpardikar.bsky.social
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Environment and climate reporter covering science, law & policy | Drilled, Article-14, The Hindu, The Continent 📍Bengaluru, India

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crucial point on the importance of reducing vulnerability and building overall resilience rather than focussing merely on early warning systems. There are around 15,000 glaciers in the Himalaya. Monitoring them all for warning signs would be near-impossible eos.org/thelandslide...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Damning. www.equator.org/articles/bid...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Should be "After at least 1400 confirmed deaths and over 6,000 people still missing, our rapid assessments peg physical recovery needs at about 10 percent of GDP."* in the image above And this on building resilience among Himalayan countries and the need for grant-based climate finance.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From Nepal's prime minister Balen Shah's UNGA speech about climate disasters, humanitarian assistance by China & India, how Nepal contributes very little to global GHGs but suffers disproportionally & the UNFCCC principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Started reading. About Burmese diplomat U Thant's tenure as UN Secretary General. How he navigated major geopolitical troubles at a time when countries in Asia and Africa had just gained independence from colonial rule and sought to shape global affairs. An essence of Third World internationalism
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Other reporting captures this too www.climatechangenews.com/2022/06/10/f...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taking a moment to show how the US and its rich allies in Europe blocked loss and damage at climate negotiations for the longest time until COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt when the G77 (largest grouping of developing countries) pushed for it and finally got a deal www.levernews.com/the-u-s-is-b...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reminded me of this section from CarbonBrief's COP30 report www.carbonbrief.org/cop30-key-ou...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A comprehensive picture captured here
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Currently reading. Fascinating
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Black Sea from room window
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Journalists: people who get to travel for work but never have time to actually see places. Turkey edition
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Good piece in Kathmandu Post today kathmandupost.com/columns/2026...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Often find IEA's energy and electricity profile section particularly useful to draw context. Here is Nepal's electricity mix www.iea.org/countries/ne...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A Nepali climate negotiator clarifies the country's official position on climate responsibility drilled.media/news/nepal-f...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nepali sources are clarifying that such news reports do not reflect the country's official position because it is not in line with the UN Convention. Editors from major Nepali media houses have also put out statements
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This was a good read. Lots of sections stand out, like this one. Thanks for sharing!
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New analysis by Virginia Tech shows the ground was slowly sinking in the same region where the collapse occurred. This is why we need thorough and nuanced assessments of what actually happened in Nepal-Tibet.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A rock-ice avalanche so huge that it led to seismic signals. Crazy eos.org/thelandslide...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I have reported about such issues earlier too frontline.thehindu.com/environment/...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Currently reading. Story beings when four Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper set out to chronicle the memories of an old Palestinian man about the Nakba. Fast-paced, satirical and meaningful
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Currently reading. Fascinating and informative
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In the print last week
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The relevant section from Earth Negotiations Bulletin enb.iisd.org/bonn-climate...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Who knew vanilla was an orchid
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Going through pictures from earlier travels, I see I have lots of plants and flowers and seeds. This below is an orchid from Assam, a northeastern state in India. It is colloquially called 'monkey flower'
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I had included such graphs in my report too. Most people are unaware of how extremely radical climate action needs to be to limit warming. Added layer is to undertake such action in a way that does not cause grave socio-economic harm. Insanely challenging drilled.media/news/cop30-g...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This article contains misinformation. It says India tried to "discredit" IPCC because a paper on inequitable mitigation scenarios was not included in AR6. But India's argument was never that AR6 did not include the paper. It was simply that the scenarios assessed by IPCC in AR6 were inequitable
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
India's stance on 1.5°C. The impossibility of it & the ridiculous reliance on CDR to bring temperatures back down for overshoot scenarios. Ballpark CDR figure is 200GtCO2 for 0.1°C. Please take a moment to think what 200GtCO2 means. Current annual emissions are 42GtCO2 drilled.media/news/cop30-g...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
One of the things I included in my first (I think) report on the issue three years ago. www.carboncopy.info/ipccs-climat...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
There is a misconception among a lot of climate folk, especially at Bonn right now that equity means less climate action. Not true, actually. It just means far higher effort from *all* countries distributed more equitably www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
There is chaos theory. And then there are people who have challenged aspects of it like Dr Jagadish Shukla. I would recommend reading his book which captures endless efforts aimed at improving predictions because for countries like India, the stakes are high frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/j...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Institutions & bureaucracy in developing countries are often considered "weak". Interpersonal relationships, like in the section below from the book, are considered unprofessional by Western standards. But they are widely prevalent in developing countries & can be harnessed for developmental goals.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
About fifty pages in. Quite refreshing how the author tries to stay true to ground realities and independent observation without the weight of conformity
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Third World Network report from Bonn climate negotiations titled 'Developed Countries Attempt to Stall Just Transition Mechanism' twn.my/title2/clima...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The reason I bring it up is that while misinformation and obstruction are a real thing, they are also used wrongly. One instance here from the ongoing climate negotiations at Bonn enb.iisd.org/bonn-climate...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Another one www.salon.com/2005/04/24/s...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Good interview with Marjane Satrapi. Rest in Peace www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Was waiting for both to be delivered to read simultaneously. One draws from more than 400 interviews with Chinese bureaucrats and entrepreneurs to tell the story of socio-economic development. The other aims to show how "going green" also helps the state push its agenda and coercive tactics
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Incredible woman. Recommend
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
And this is the assessment for April. A lot of people tend to not realise that 35-40°C temperatures are not anomalous for Indian summers www.youtube.com/live/sWwl6no...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The sun in my city is mild today. There is news of an early monsoon. Reminded me of one of the days before this summer began. It was also a day when work was photogenic
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
About #ISDS at Santa Marta
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
New paper on the influence Shell had in creating investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms #ISDS academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
From a forest in my home state of Karnataka. Tribal communities who were evicted to create a tiger reserve have reclaimed their ancestral lands even while their applications for legal forest rights remain pending with the state. A historic moment of assertion despite the state
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
It has been 34 years since UNFCCC was signed. Saudi Arabia's energy mix is 99.9% oil and gas www.iea.org/countries/sa...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Bought the book three years ago when I lived briefly in Dehradun, a city at the foothills of the Himalaya. Started reading now. A fascinating section on petroglyphs in Ladakh.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Also, grid power is subsidised in many ways for many people, especially farmers in India. Why would they give this up? An interview where I tried to get some answers, in case it is of interest. frontline.thehindu.com/environment/...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
From today's paper
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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