January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Who should lead global climate action for the next 100 years? 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐥 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 100 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬? Choices were: > Spiritual leaders/philosophers > Farmers/nature professionals > Artists/dreamers > Engineers & scientists once again (See the poll below - ) 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
What's a cow doing in an electric vehicle workshop? That was what might have struck some of the folks who attended an EV Innovation Workshop organized some weeks back by Chennai Climate Consortium (C3) that I coordinate. In a room with 100 people, mostly engineers and technology innovators who had...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
The CEO Climate Dilemma - CLIDEMY CLIMATE ACTION POLL CEOs are one of the most powerful stakeholders worldwide when it comes to climate action. They after all hold all most of the strings - purse strings, human strings and the strategy strings. CEOs in most of the carbon emitting industries...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
C3 visit to NCCRD - National Center for Combustion Research & Development About 25 guests had a guided facility tour of the NCCRD at IIT Madras, organized by the Chennai Climate Consortium - folks ranging all the way from college students to a senior partner at McKinsey & Co. Thank...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
To (M)eat or not to (M)eat? - TODAY'S CLIDEMY CLIMATE POLL Every time you swallow something - unless you eat stones or sand - you indirectly emit CO2. All right, I'm not here to give you the guilt trip while you enjoy your food. But knowing the following might be...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Insights on climate startup innovations & climate investing 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐡 & 𝐇𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐮 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐚 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 - 𝐀𝐬𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 @ 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐅𝐈𝐗 Priya & Himanshu 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘦 them 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘱 & 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝑨𝒔𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓 is an interactive...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Insights on climate startup innovations & climate investing 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘'𝐒 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐘 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐋 - 𝐃𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝? Climate action is needed. Super urgently, on a large scale. But the powers-that-be have other things to worry about - business, politics, money... Someone's got to stand up and say...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
CLIMAFIX STARTUP TREASURE HUNT What's any investor's (esp. venture investor's) dream? Identify a startup super early and help it grow and add value a 1000 fold, or even higher within a short period. In short - uncut diamonds. But this is easier said than done. Early stage startups with huge...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Is it a good idea to tinker around with earth to control global warming? - Today's CLIDEMY Poll The world, if experts are to be believed, will most likely overshoot the 1.5 degrees C by 2100 (for those wondering what this number is all about, it refers to the increase...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Will climate education for the masses make a difference? - Today's CLIDEMY poll I'm aware this is an "existential" question for CLIDEMY, so your vote on it, as well as comments will be valuable. Effective climate education for the "you and me", the masses, is non-existent. Two main reasons: 1....
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