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ClimaQuiz @ Chennai, Jan 15th 2023 This is something I have been asked for a while…why are we not having climate change & sustainability related quizzes in India (or for that matter, anywhere in the world) when climate is the most important topic today? Why indeed not, I used to...

DISCUSS – What innovations in finance & investments can significantly accelerate India’s decarbonization journey? Part of the ????? ??????? ?????????? ?????????? ?????? – https://lnkd.in/d9VSHn8D Financing is one of the most critical drivers for decarbonization, possibly even more than technology, and this will be even more true in the short and...

THE INDIA CLIMATE CHALLENGES DISCUSSION @ LINKEDIN Almost every professional working in climate change (researchers, startups. corporates, govt. officials, investors, activists) is on LinkedIn but the collective climate action value I see from their interactions on this platform is pathetic – and I’m being uncharacteristically generous in my choice of...

CLIMAFIX Summit 2022 – How well did the event do on fixing carbon? How easy is it to do a low carbon event? Unless you wish to go the offset way (a sweet idea that enables guilt-free carbon sinning), it can be quite difficult. We tried to make CLIMAFIX Summit...

The Chennai Climate Consortium What can accelerate industrial decarbonization? Many things, obviously. But can a local approach help? In my last 15 years in the climate tech sector, one thing I have seen is the speed at which solution adoption happens within geographical clusters. If a textile factory in Tiruppur...

The Importance of Deep Tech for India’s Climate Tech – Priya Shah of Theia Ventures If you thought the world is in the midst of a decarbonization wave, here’s news for you – we have barely started. Some of the relatively easier avenues of decarbonization, renewable energy & energy efficiency...

Solar power to travel across continents When completed, the ambitious 4000+ Km Sun Cable will transport power from solar farms put up in vast lands available in Australia to land starved, power-hungry Singapore. Extending this logic, is it possible that solar could one day be transmitted from one part of...

Algae – especially microalgae – has been the holy grail for biofuels for almost 25 years If scientists are still slogging at it, there’s a reason. Microalgae can yield up to 50 times the oil compared to conventional oil crops, making it perhaps the only biomass feedstock that has the...

Coal power plants run at 35% efficiency Is it possible to increase it to 80%? Coal power plants are responsible for a very large portion of the 12 billion tons of CO2 annually emitted from power plants worldwide. And these plants will be operating for decades to come in many...

Is age an asset – and not a handicap – for climate startup founders? When I did my first startup – and that was during the dot com boom – venture capital firms did not even bother to return calls if you were over thirty years of age – you...