Live Chat
Down To Earth and CSE’s ongoing e-mobility campaign is kicking off a series of Live Chats to dig into various aspects of India’s transition to e-mobility. Akshit and Himanshu (DTE) will be talking to Sukanya in the first of these. Do also check out the basket of DTE coverage which has been front-rolling the campaign.
The announcement will soon be up on the CSE website.
Interaction
Justice Abhay S Oka is a retired Judge of the Supreme Court, and has also served as Chief Justice of the Karnataka and Bombay High Courts. Regarded as an extremely upright and principled man of justice, he is celebrated for having struck down a Central government notification that allowed industries and mining projects to get retrospective environmental clearances. Justice Oka will be here at the invitation of the Industry team (Kushagra), and has graciously agreed to address us at a short ‘meet-and-greet session’ in the afternoon – the details will be shared with everyone soon.
Meeting
AAETI is the venue for the RE team’s second round table – the event will focus on exploring pathways for utility-scale RE deployment while ensuring grid reliability.
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Making the case for a strong co-existence agenda
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In this 16th episode of CSE’s video podcast, the Climate team’s Sehr Raheja will be talking to Professor Richard Kozul-Wright, noted economist and former head of UNCTAD’s Globalisation and Development Strategies Division. Tune in on September 28.
The announcement will soon be up on the CSE website.
Anyone who missed this brief workshop conducted last Wednesday can reach out to Sukanya for the link to the video and the zoom recording.
This week, Avantika from the Climate team is in Beijing for a workshop hosted by the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment, on ‘Just Transition and Sustainable Development for the Global South’. Diplomats and civil society from 28 Global South countries will be participating. Avantika delivered a keynote speech yesterday on India’s climate policies.
Next month, Sehr from the Climate team will be representing CSE at the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Bangkok, which will take place alongside the Bangkok Climate Week and UNFCCC’s climate finance talks. Sehr will co-host and participate in several events presenting research from our upcoming paper on the cost of capital.
As part of its ongoing advocacy efforts, the Climate team has had quite a few engagements last week: Trishant advised European think tank Sandbag on the EU CBAM, Avantika advised CAN-International on the issue of equity in climate science assessments emerging in UNFCCC discussions, and Avantika and Sehr engaged with trade justice networks on critical minerals.
The Environment Education team is getting set to scale up its engagement with the Punjab state government – its initial meeting with the state officials on rolling out its ‘Solar 30’ project in Punjab has been successful: the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology and the Punjab Energy Development Agency have agreed to come on board.
CSE secured the highest score in the technical evaluation of its proposal for CITIIS 2.0 programme for the Government of Odisha. The proposal was done by our Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy team. The CITIIS 2.0 programme is a four-year initiative of the Central government to drive sustainable urban development and climate action.