The State of the Environment – #PlanetTalks with Srinivas Krishnaswamy on Prospects for Energy Cooperation in South Asia
#IMPRI Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development (CECCSD), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to an IMPRI #WebPolicyTalk series –
The State of the Environment – #PlanetTalks
Prospects for Energy Cooperation in South Asia
Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: October 4, 2021
Time: 4:00 p.m. IST
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live
Speaker:
Srinivas Krishnaswamy
CEO, Vasudha Foundation, New Delhi
Srinivas is an economist by training and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Vasudha Foundation, a not for profit think tank, CSO, set up him in April 2010 and working in the clean energy, climate policy space.
An institutional builder, Srinivas, as the founder-CEO of Vasudha Foundation, has led Vasudha Foundation to be recognized as one of the leading CSOs in the clean energy and climate policy space in India. He has been actively involved in conceptualizing and designing a number of pioneering and unique projects in the clean energy and climate policy space.
He was actively involved in conceptualizing and designing the first and only multi stakeholder and source agnostic platform for renewable energy in India, the Indian Renewable Energy Federation.
Prior to setting up Vasudha Foundation, Srinivas was the head of the Policy Unit of Greenpeace in India, which he helped set up and prior to that was the head of the climate and energy campaign for Greenpeace in India.
Srinivas has been actively engaged and following the climate negotiations in the capacity of a civil society observer status.
Discussants:
Prof Christopher Scott
Maurice K. Goddard Chair of Forestry and Environmental Resource Conservation;
Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science & Management, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Dr Mirza Sadaqat Huda
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan;
Asia EDGE Fellow, The National Bureau of Asian Research, Washington DC, USA;
Non-Resident Fellow, Energy Peace Partners, California, USA
Udisha Saklani
PhD Researcher, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, England
Moderator:
Dr Simi Mehta
CEO and Editorial Director, IMPRI, New Delhi
Live Video: https://fb.watch/8qPZZGN0I9/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I1Ua5AiaI0
Podcast: Spotify | Google Podcasts
Additional Details
Registration Deadline Time - 12:00 AM
Organizer
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