Sustainable Futures Collaborative
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Independent research organisation analysing frontier issues in climate change, energy, and environment | New Delhi, India | Website: sustainablefutures.org | Email updates: http://eepurl.com/iDQDtA
3/3 scale air quality monitoring, and manage airsheds. Read the full issue brief here: www.sustainablefutures.org/publication/...
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
3/3 scale air quality monitoring, and manage airsheds. Read the full issue brief here: www.sustainablefutures.org/publication/...
2/3 and what India can learn from them to address the challenges ahead. In this brief, Ishita Srivastava, Arunesh Karkun, and @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social highlight trends and examples relevant to India, including how countries establish health-based standards,strengthen accountability for action,
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
2/3 and what India can learn from them to address the challenges ahead. In this brief, Ishita Srivastava, Arunesh Karkun, and @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social highlight trends and examples relevant to India, including how countries establish health-based standards,strengthen accountability for action,
1/3 Our new issue brief looks outward for solutions to bolster regulators and to refocus #airpollution policy towards more effective, long-term action. We study how Brazil, China, Germany, Mexico, Poland, South Korea, and the USA have built and reformed their air quality regimes,
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
1/3 Our new issue brief looks outward for solutions to bolster regulators and to refocus #airpollution policy towards more effective, long-term action. We study how Brazil, China, Germany, Mexico, Poland, South Korea, and the USA have built and reformed their air quality regimes,
1/2 Rashi Agarwal presented at the India Land and Development Conference (ILDC) 2025, organised by Landstack, from 18-20 November 2025. She spoke on ‘Landing India’s Renewable Energy Ambitions: Reckoning Community Land Dependencies and Opportunities as Part of Energy Transition Planning’,
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
1/2 Rashi Agarwal presented at the India Land and Development Conference (ILDC) 2025, organised by Landstack, from 18-20 November 2025. She spoke on ‘Landing India’s Renewable Energy Ambitions: Reckoning Community Land Dependencies and Opportunities as Part of Energy Transition Planning’,
2/3 but also at higher levels of governance" - Neha Kurian spoke on local level planning tools as a means to institutionalise and strengthen grass-root level capacity and response to disasters at STEP Global Summit 2025.
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
2/3 but also at higher levels of governance" - Neha Kurian spoke on local level planning tools as a means to institutionalise and strengthen grass-root level capacity and response to disasters at STEP Global Summit 2025.
1/2 #JobAlert: We’re #hiring a Research Lead/Associate Fellow, Energy Transitions in New Delhi. Our work focuses on explaining the entrenched patterns in the Indian energy sector, identifying key bottlenecks to a clean energy transition, and finding solutions to ease its challenges.
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
1/3 “We should plan and execute nested policy actions from local to airshed levels, make health the basis for crafting mitigation actions, build future-ready regulators, and move from palliative actions to root-cause driven sectoral transformations to build resilience to air pollution” -
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
1/3 “We should plan and execute nested policy actions from local to airshed levels, make health the basis for crafting mitigation actions, build future-ready regulators, and move from palliative actions to root-cause driven sectoral transformations to build resilience to air pollution” -
1/2 @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social will be a speaker at a webinar organised by Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, on "Beyond the Haze: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Air Pollution", highlighting how interdisciplinary insights—spanning medicine, public health policy,
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
1/2 @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social will be a speaker at a webinar organised by Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, on "Beyond the Haze: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Air Pollution", highlighting how interdisciplinary insights—spanning medicine, public health policy,
1/3 @ndubash.bsky.social in an editorial in @science.org - Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says, rather than what it does or is likely to do, is a problem for at least three reasons: ambition is normatively loaded and hard to compare across countries;
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
1/3 @ndubash.bsky.social in an editorial in @science.org - Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says, rather than what it does or is likely to do, is a problem for at least three reasons: ambition is normatively loaded and hard to compare across countries;
1/7 NEW ISSUE BRIEF: India’s #airpollution crisis cannot be solved without addressing key structural and institutional constraints such as reforming our environmental regulatory regime – one that remains under-capacitated, poorly equipped, and under-funded.
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
1/7 NEW ISSUE BRIEF: India’s #airpollution crisis cannot be solved without addressing key structural and institutional constraints such as reforming our environmental regulatory regime – one that remains under-capacitated, poorly equipped, and under-funded.
1/3 “Factoring health into air pollution management changes every decision you take at every stage of the process. It affects what you set as air quality standards, which depends on what evidence you have with respect to health outcomes; it changes what pollutants you regulate.
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
1/3 “Factoring health into air pollution management changes every decision you take at every stage of the process. It affects what you set as air quality standards, which depends on what evidence you have with respect to health outcomes; it changes what pollutants you regulate.
1/3 “In Delhi, there are a large number of sources that are present within the city like transport, waste burning, construction, road dust, and various other local sources, that contribute to say 35-40% of the air pollution. Then you have sources located just outside the city in peri-urban areas,
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
1/3 “In Delhi, there are a large number of sources that are present within the city like transport, waste burning, construction, road dust, and various other local sources, that contribute to say 35-40% of the air pollution. Then you have sources located just outside the city in peri-urban areas,
1/3 @ndubash.bsky.social in an editorial in @science.org - Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says, rather than what it does or is likely to do, is a problem for at least three reasons: ambition is normatively loaded and hard to compare across countries...
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
1/3 @ndubash.bsky.social in an editorial in @science.org - Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says, rather than what it does or is likely to do, is a problem for at least three reasons: ambition is normatively loaded and hard to compare across countries...
1/3 “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,
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
1/3 “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,
2/3 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.
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
2/3 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.
1/3 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,
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
1/3 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,
1/3 “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,
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
1/3 “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,
1/4 “The Kerala State Disaster Management and the Revenue Department have been making efforts to support the Local Self-Government Department. However, going forward, how do we ensure that this attains more continuity, and how can it be embedded into the system itself?
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
1/4 “The Kerala State Disaster Management and the Revenue Department have been making efforts to support the Local Self-Government Department. However, going forward, how do we ensure that this attains more continuity, and how can it be embedded into the system itself?
1/2 @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social 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, organised by GRIHA Council.
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
1/2 @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social 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, organised by GRIHA Council.
1/4 “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,
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
1/4 “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,
2/2 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.
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 AM
2/2 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.
1/2 Rashi Agarwal spoke in the panel 'Pathways to Careers in Climate & Sustainability' organised by @hertieschool.bsky.social and Hansraj College, Delhi University on 29 October 2025.
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 AM
1/2 Rashi Agarwal spoke in the panel 'Pathways to Careers in Climate & Sustainability' organised by @hertieschool.bsky.social and Hansraj College, Delhi University on 29 October 2025.
The Government of Himachal Pradesh, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, released the climate-focused Himachal Pradesh State Human Development Report on Monday. SFC was proud to be the Lead Technical Anchor Institute in its preparation. Executive Summary: bit.ly/4oCduki
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The Government of Himachal Pradesh, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, released the climate-focused Himachal Pradesh State Human Development Report on Monday. SFC was proud to be the Lead Technical Anchor Institute in its preparation. Executive Summary: bit.ly/4oCduki
2/2 before first correcting their historical imbalances in good faith” - @aman-srivastava.bsky.social and Nikita Shukla write in @thewire.in. Read: thewire.in/environment/...
October 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
2/2 before first correcting their historical imbalances in good faith” - @aman-srivastava.bsky.social and Nikita Shukla write in @thewire.in. Read: thewire.in/environment/...
