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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 13/10/2026

(1/6) As India's energy transition continues to accelerate, a new set of questions emerge: how is India’s clean energy innovation ecosystem evolving, what are the strategic choices shaping public RD&D investments, and what could this mean for the country’s innovation trajectory?

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 10/06/2026

4/4 Read our report for more: www.sustainablefutures.org/publication/...

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 10/06/2026

3/4 - Better integration of heat into urban planning and public service delivery - Improved use of data and technology for decision-making

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 10/06/2026

2/4 immediate urban priorities, while limited staffing, fragmented responsibilities, and funding constraints hinder effective implementation of heat action. Building heat resilience will require: - Stronger institutional ownership of heat risk - Dedicated financing mechanisms

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 10/06/2026

1/4 As Indian cities confront rising temperatures, the challenge is no longer just responding to extreme heat. We need to build institutions that can tackle heat as a long-term risk. Our interviews with policymakers and implementors revealed that heat often struggles to compete with more

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 10/06/2026

1/2 #JobAlert: We're #hiring a Research Associate/Senior Research Associate, Environmental Governance and Policy, in New Delhi. Our work aims to make lasting and sustainable improvements to India’s air quality by strengthening the foundations of our approach to air quality management.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 05/06/2026

NEW OP-ED: Jui Gusani and @sonyrk.bsky.social write in @thehindu.com on how India’s coastline relies on seawalls and embankments, while ecosystem-based adaptation through mangroves, seagrasses, and coral reefs continues to reduce climate risks. Read: www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-e...

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 04/06/2026

1/3 #JobAlert: We're #hiring a Communications Associate/Senior Communications Associate at Sustainable Futures Collaborative (SFC), in New Delhi. The role involves implementing SFC’s communications strategies across our thematic areas and in institutional storytelling.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 04/06/2026

1/6 NEW PUBLICATION: As part of The Climate Futures Project (climatefuturesproject.in), Nikita Shukla, @aman-srivastava.bsky.social & Easwaran J Narassimhan unpack the @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org's 2022 climate policy modelling study, ‘Getting India to Net-Zero’, which provides guidance and advice

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 03/06/2026

1/3 We are screening our audio-visual exhibit, Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible: Indoor Heat, Unpaid Domestic Work, and Women’s Resilience, at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Bengaluru, on 6 June from 4 PM onwards. Using thermal imagery and audio narratives, the exhibit documents

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 02/06/2026

1/5 'Dehat in Flux: Facing Climate Anxiety in Peri-Urban Delhi’ is the second in the five-city masterclass series, on 8 June 2026, for Ordinary Ecologies of Repair: Youth, Urbanity, and Environmental Change in South Asia, a seminar series funded by the @urbanstudiesfoundation.org, spanning

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 27/05/2026

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 26/05/2026

1/2 NEW OP-ED: Odisha, as the pioneer of power sector reforms, now has an opportunity to create a model where "free power" and "market pricing" coexist by combining transparency, competitiveness, and compassion. Let consumers know the true cost of electricity, while governments

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 18/05/2026

1/2 #JobAlert: We're #hiring a Communications Associate/Senior Communications Associate at Sustainable Futures Collaborative (SFC), in New Delhi. The role involves implementing SFC’s communications strategies across our thematic areas and in institutional storytelling.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 18/05/2026

1/2 #OurTeamSpeaks: Aditi Ghosh is a Research Associate in the Adaptation and Resilience vertical at Sustainable Futures Collaborative. Her work focuses on heat impact and resilience, climate adaptation, environmental governance, public policy, and sustainability transitions.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 15/05/2026

4/4 (Because of the heat, I can’t sleep at night, and the next day I feel irritable throughout. I get angry, and sometimes that frustration comes out on my children.) Created by Sonali Verma and Pritish Bali in collaboration with Godrej Design Lab.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 15/05/2026

2/4 Using thermal imaging footage and women's recorded voices, the project traces how women living in heat-vulnerable settlements experience, negotiate, and endure extreme heat while running households and providing care. In a resettlement colony in north-west Delhi, Monika speaks of nights

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 04/05/2026

2/4 Our research across nine cities that will experience some of the sharpest increases in heatwave days shows gaps in planning, weak implementation, and limited protection for the most vulnerable. As heat risk rises, we need to shift from reactive measures to sustained, system-wide action.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 04/05/2026

1/4 Indian cities are getting hotter, but our response isn’t keeping up. Heat Action Plans are expanding across cities, yet most heat actions focus on short-term fixes instead of long-term resilience.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 30/04/2026

1/3 “We must build policy around exposure to air pollution. Ultimately, what we breathe is what impacts us. Prioritising sources based on their health impact, reducing pollution at source, actions framed by accurate estimations and periodic updates, easily accessible information to build

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 29/04/2026

1/3 @tamannadalal99.bsky.social spoke in the panel, "Invisible Exposure: Rethinking Heat Metrics and Protection Pathways for Informal and Gig Workers", at the Global Heat and Cooling Forum organised by @nrdc.org on 21-22 April 2026.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 29/04/2026

1/3 Dr Purvi Patel spoke in the panel, "Invisible Exposure: Rethinking Heat Metrics and Protection Pathways for Informal and Gig Workers" at the Global Heat and Cooling Forum organised by @nrdc.org on 21-22 April 2026. She highlighted the need for greater scientific rigour in heat–health research,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 28/04/2026

1/4 Aditya Valiathan Pillai spoke in the panel, "Governance Pathways for Strengthening Heat Resilience in the Global South" at the Global Heat and Cooling Forum organised by @nrdc.org on 21-22 April 2026. He said - "There is a need to be electorally salient to show that they are doing things

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 21/04/2026

3/5 2 essential priorities: advancing rigorous science and ensuring it meaningfully informs policy. “At the same time, progress cannot be measured by data alone. It must remain grounded in people’s lived realities, livelihoods, and well-being.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 21/04/2026

2/5 particularly for vulnerable populations. At the launch, @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social underscored a critical gap as well as an opportunity in how we respond to extreme heat. He emphasised the need to deepen our focus on epidemiological, or health-specific heat thresholds, while bridging

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 21/04/2026

1/5 The South Asia Hub of the Global Heat Health Information Network (@heathealth.info) was formally launched at the @nrdc.org Global Heat and Cooling Forum in New Delhi on 21 April 2026. It aims to connect local actors to inform policy, implement practical interventions, and reduce heat risks,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 13/04/2026

1/2 Mukta Naik moderated the panel 'Policy Takeaways' at the event, 'Climate Justice for Home-Based Workers: Voices, Evidence, and Action' organised by WIEGO and SEWA Delhi on 23 March 2026. She spoke on the importance of workers' voices, especially home-based workers who are often invisible,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 09/04/2026

3/5 SFC, along with the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), @nrdc.org, @bracjpgsph.bsky.social, and the @unescap.bsky.social have launched a new South Asia Hub of the @heathealth.info. It is hosted in New Delhi by CEEW.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 08/04/2026

1/2 Mukta Naik spoke at the launch of the book, 'City Limits: The Crisis of Urbanisation', edited by Tikender Panwar on 17 March 2026 - "City Limits reminds us that the work of challenging dominant paradigms of city-making is important and must go on,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 07/04/2026

1/4 Dr Purvi Patel spoke about how a shift toward health-centric governance is critical to deal with climate impacts, including those linking nutrition and agriculture, during the roundtable on ‘Science to Policy Translation for Future-Ready Food Systems’,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 06/04/2026

1/4 @ishita22.bsky.social and Arunesh Karkun will be speaking at an upcoming webinar organised by ASAR on why pollutants like PM2.5 need to be at the heart of air quality planning and how this shift can improve policy priorities and action on the ground on 17 April 2026, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 02/04/2026

1/4 In our latest issue brief, @sonyrk.bsky.social and @escandita.bsky.social highlight that strengthening coastal resilience in India requires moving beyond single-hazard planning and adopting an integrated understanding of interacting coastal hazards.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 31/03/2026

1/5 NEW ISSUE BRIEF: India’s coastal regions are experiencing accelerating trends in climate-related hazards such as relative sea level rise along both the east and west coasts, increasing frequency and intensity of cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 19/03/2026

1/6 NEW PUBLICATION: Despite the need to limit climate change and accelerate the transition to low-carbon energy, there is disagreement about how to share the burden of reducing CO2 emissions. @ndubash.bsky.social and @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social contributed to assessing different approaches to

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 17/03/2026

1/3 @aman-srivastava.bsky.social highlighted the impact of climate regulations on export competitiveness for developing nations, in the panel, "𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞–𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐬?, examining whether new environmental standards, such as carbon border adjustments,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 16/03/2026

3/3 possibly lay out specific funding for long-term heat resilience that is not short-term disaster-oriented". Aditya Valiathan Pillai spoke at the International Workshop on Heatwaves 2026, “Strengthening Preparedness, Resilience and Risk Governance” on 11-12 Feb '26, organised by NDMA, India.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 06/03/2026

3/3 Mukta Naik moderated a session on ‘Co-Creating Solutions: Climate-Resilient Vending Zones’ at the National Consultation on Street Vendors and Climate Justice: Co-creating Climate-resilient Solutions for Informal Workers, organised by WIEGO and Janpahal on 26 February 2026.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 05/03/2026

3/4 Mukta also conducted a discussion among 15 start-ups and policy experts to collate their experiences of working with municipal governments on issues of waste and water management at SAAF Cities, organised by Villgro and Socrates Foundation for Collective Wisdom.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 05/03/2026

1/4 As part of the Delhi Climate Innovation Week, Mukta Naik spoke in two panel discussions on 21 February 2026. She discussed the need to look at urban villages and other low-income settlements as important sites for climate action as their high-density urban form and low quality of infrastructure

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 03/03/2026

1/2 NEW BLOG: As India moves toward 500 GW of non-fossil capacity, energy storage will be central to grid stability. Kashmeera Patel, @aman-srivastava.bsky.social, and @easwaran.bsky.social deep dive into India’s publicly funded energy storage RD&D portfolio, which reveals a strong bet on batteries.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 24/02/2026

1/2 @sonyrk.bsky.social spoke on what food systems are, why they matter, and why changing the current system is crucial for us, our climate, and nature, for the BBA students, batch of 2025, at OP Jindal Global University.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 24/02/2026

1/2 @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social spoke on health impacts of heat and existing policy regimes that manage heat action in the panel, 'Is India getting too hot for roti, kapda aur makaan?' at Mumbai Climate Week on 16 February 2026. He was joined by Rashee Mehra, IIHS and Main Bhi Dilli, Zubair Shaikh,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 23/02/2026

1/2 NEW BLOG: Union Budget announcements signal which technologies the government wants to scale up. Whether they actually scale depends on choosing the right policy instruments and designing them to remove the key bottleneck at each stage of diffusion. Using a five-stage diffusion framework,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 20/02/2026

1/3 “It is estimated that air pollution is the number one risk factor for ill health in India and that the impact on the GDP of India is some 30-odd billion dollars a year. Those who lack the social protection measures or the financial means necessary to be able to miss work, for instance,

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 17/02/2026

2/3 As India pursues its Net Zero commitments, the way its cities restructure energy use will shape national and global low-carbon trajectories.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 16/02/2026

1/2 #JobAlert: We're #hiring a Research Lead/Senior Research Associate, Environmental Governance and Policy, in New Delhi. Our work aims to make lasting and sustainable improvements to India’s air quality by strengthening the foundations of our approach to air quality management.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 13/02/2026

2/2 Her work focuses on urban air quality, emission inventories, air pollution-induced health impacts, and policy evaluation.

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · 13/02/2026

1/2 #OurTeamSpeaks: Poonam Mangaraj is a Research Lead in the Environmental Governance and Policy vertical at SFC.

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