The Climate Crisis in India: Just Energy Transitions and Its Challenges

The talk will touch upon the extreme heat and other recent impacts of the climate crisis on working people in urban areas, on marginal farmers, and on underprivileged women in different parts of India. It will also discuss different aspects of a just energy transition in the Indian context and its varied challenges.

Nagraj Adve is a member of Teachers Against the Climate Crisis (TACC). He has been speaking and writing on the science, impacts, and politics of global warming for the last 18 years.  He is the author of Global Warming in India: Science, Impacts, and Politics (Eklavya, 2022), also published by Eklavya in Hindi. He has published articles on climate change and energy transitions in the Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), The Hindu, Frontline, The India Forum, Wire, Science and Society, Jacobin, India Today, Outlook, and other publications. He has been invited as a panelist on NDTV, Rajya Sabha TV, Al Jazeera, and other TV channels on different aspects of global warming’s impacts and politics.