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,

2/2 and focused on the need for mapping human and non-human community dependents that are often impacted by clean energy transitions; laying out the opportunities that could be explored across the lifecycle of the renewable energy project.

3/3 organised by Save Vibrant Earth Foundation on 8 November 2025.

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.

2/2 Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant social science discipline or applied sciences with demonstrable policy engagement and public impact. Rolling applications. Details: www.sustainablefutures.org/careers/

3/3 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2rU...

2/3 Annanya Mahajan spoke about air pollution as an ongoing disaster in India, at a webinar on ‘Invisible Disasters: Tackling Air Pollution through Resilient and Risk-Informed Systems’, organised by Sphere India Academy on 18 November 2025.

2/2 and environmental history—can deepen our understanding of #airpollution and guide more inclusive and effective responses, on December 3, Wednesday, 2025 at 6.30-7.30 pm IST / 8:00-9:00 am EST. The event will take place on Zoom. Register here: mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/beyond...

3/3 "A global shift in emphasis is needed, from benchmarking pledges to understanding what they signal about how and why countries will act," he writes. Read the full editorial: science.org/doi/10.1126/....

2/3 there’s little evidence of a clear link between ambition of pledges and what countries actually do; domestic political shifts, not global cooperation, have been a more effective driver of climate action.

7/7 Future publications will explore this in greater detail. Read the full issue brief here: www.sustainablefutures.org/publication/...

6/7 6. Accountability is a catalyst for sustained improvements in air quality

This issue brief is a starting point for conversations around how global experiences can inform how India develops an air pollution regulatory regime more consonant with the scale of the crisis.

5/7 3. Large increases in monitoring capacity alone may not necessarily yield spatial and temporal representativeness
4. Indian regulators are comparatively resource-poor
5. Airshed-level governance is gaining importance and requires nested governance

4/7 scale air quality monitoring, and how they manage airsheds. Some key learnings:
1. Science plays a fundamental role in establishing strict, health-based air quality standards
2. Strong focus on PM2.5 reductions through top-down or bottom-up approaches depending on country contexts

3/7 and what India can learn from them to address the challenges ahead. In the brief, Ishita Srivastava, Arunesh Karkun, and @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social highlight trends and examples with relevance for India – how countries set health-based standards, strengthen accountability for action,

2/7 Our new issue brief looks outward for solutions to bolster regulators and to refocus air pollution 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,