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Our work to map the scale and impact of #heat is featured in India Climate Collaborative’s May 2025 newsletter. We share insights from our ongoing research, highlight priority areas for funders, and outline the support research actors need to tackle extreme heat in India. “The urgency to

Our work to map the scale and impact of #heat is featured in <a href="/IndiaClimCollab/">India Climate Collaborative</a>’s May 2025 newsletter. We share insights from our ongoing research, highlight priority areas for funders, and outline the support research actors need to tackle extreme heat in India.

“The urgency to
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#OurTeamSpeaks: Kashmeera Patel is a Research Associate with the Climate Policy team at SFC, where she focuses on advancing support for low-carbon technologies. She holds a Master’s in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, UK, and a Bachelor’s degree in

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Our work to map the scale and impact of #heat is featured in India Climate Collaborative May 2025 newsletter. We share insights from our ongoing research, highlight priority areas for funders, and outline the support research actors need to tackle extreme heat in India. Read the full piece

Our work to map the scale and impact of #heat is featured in <a href="/IndiaClimCollab/">India Climate Collaborative</a> May 2025 newsletter. We share insights from our ongoing research, highlight priority areas for funders, and outline the support research actors need to tackle extreme heat in India.

Read the full piece
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“Even if policymakers in developing countries see little value in pursuing large emissions reductions at the pace that climate advocates would like, climate-aligned development is still the best path forward. The key, both politically and economically, is to reframe the issue” -

“Even if policymakers in developing countries see little value in pursuing large emissions reductions at the pace that climate advocates would like, climate-aligned development is still the best path forward. The key, both politically and economically, is to reframe the issue” -
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Last week, the SFC team gathered in Alwar, Rajasthan, for a retreat to reflect on our journey so far, propose new ideas, and receive honest and critical feedback on our work from one another. We dove into some of the most pressing issues shaping the frontiers of climate, energy,

Last week, the SFC team gathered in Alwar, Rajasthan, for a retreat to reflect on our journey so far, propose new ideas, and receive honest and critical feedback on our work from one another. We dove into some of the most pressing issues shaping the frontiers of climate, energy,
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A recent study in Environment International examined 3.6M+ deaths across 10 Indian cities and found that #heat-related mortality was 1.5x higher during extreme PM2.5 #pollution. The authors call for efforts to reduce common sources of air pollution and climate change to immediately lower

A recent study in <a href="/env_int_journal/">Environment International</a> examined 3.6M+ deaths across 10 Indian cities and found that #heat-related mortality was 1.5x higher during extreme PM2.5 #pollution. The authors call for efforts to reduce common sources of air pollution and climate change to immediately lower
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SFC collaborated with Purpose to host a closed-door workshop that brought together urban planners, researchers, designers, journalists, and community leaders to co-create community-driven, non-policy responses to extreme heat. Moderated by escandita🌻, Sonali Bhasin and

SFC collaborated with <a href="/Purpose/">Purpose</a> to host a closed-door workshop that brought together urban planners, researchers, designers, journalists, and community leaders to co-create community-driven, non-policy responses to extreme heat. 

Moderated by <a href="/EscanditaTewari/">escandita🌻</a>, Sonali Bhasin and
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REPLUG: “The risks of the future are likely to be so severe, frequent and interconnected that they will require proactively identifying and tackling risk, girding the system for a state of permanent tumult, and relying on all-of-government coordination. The governance of extreme

REPLUG: “The risks of the future are likely to be so severe, frequent and interconnected that they will require proactively identifying and tackling risk, girding the system for a state of permanent tumult, and relying on all-of-government coordination. The governance of extreme
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“The global food and land use system costs us around $12 trillion, compared to the market value of the global food system of $10 trillion. This manifests as hidden costs of poverty, ill health, and environmental degradation. That means the way we produce and consume food today is

“The global food and land use system costs us around $12 trillion, compared to the market value of the global food system of $10 trillion. This manifests as hidden costs of poverty, ill health, and environmental degradation. That means the way we produce and consume food today is
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“India's cities, like many cities in the developing and developed world, tend to pull or concentrate heat because of the cement, how close buildings are, how traffic moves, how sunlight hits the city and the angles at which it hits it. A lot of people's houses have tin roofs and

“India's cities, like many cities in the developing and developed world, tend to pull or concentrate heat because of the cement, how close buildings are, how traffic moves, how sunlight hits the city and the angles at which it hits it. A lot of people's houses have tin roofs and