January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
My top climate reads last week... 𝐕𝐂 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬 - A useful coalition comprising 23 VC firms - - FinTech Global 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 Meta Facebook 𝐂𝐓𝐎 Mike Schroepfer 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦: Says, "We need business to solve climate change"...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Should the West lead climate action? - Today's CLIDEMY poll It's well known that most of our greenhouse gases hanging around in the atmosphere came from the "west" or more generally, the "developed" countries. And this should not be surprising. Look at these stats. Per capita consumption of electricity in...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Carbon Zero Challenge - Industry & Investor Interaction Day 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨 Jul 27, IIT Madras 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫, 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 25 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. Drop in by the Terrace Hall,...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Making India the world's climate startup capital - CLIMAFIX Summit 2023 India is the third largest tech startup ecosystem in the world. That's something. At CLIMAFIX, we went a step further and asked ourselves - 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥'𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘱 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘣𝘺 2030? I believe...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Elon Musk wants to build a colony on Mars. Is this a laudable effort? - Today's CLIDEMY Poll Elon Musk wants to accelerate space travel and also get humans to start living on Mars. He doesn't want us humans to be a single planet species. Alternative planet habitation also provides...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Tree or plant you admire the most - Today's CLIDEMY Poll They are all around us. We briefly look at them sometimes, we just brush them or rush by them at many others. Children embrace them, try playing with the squirrels running about and butterflies fluttering by. We adults have...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Why do ordinary people do little or nothing to control climate change? - Today's CLIDEMY poll For all the talk about climate change being an existential threat to all of us, most of us do nothing 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 in our individual capacities, and the rest do a bit of lip service,...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Theme-based Sponsorships & Visibility at CLIMAFIX Summit 2023 Organized by Energy Alternatives India & THE ENERGY CONSORTIUM - IIT MADRAS 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘈𝘚𝘚𝘐𝘝𝘌 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢'𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘱 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵? At CLIMAFIX Summit 2023, India's largest climate startup, investor & innovation summit,...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Should the world build more nuclear power plants? - Today's CLIDEMY poll Nuclear energy is pollution free. It is carbon free. It already supplies about 10% of total global electricity demand. Factoring in the currently available reserves of uranium, and possible new sources from which uranium can be extracted in...
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January 5, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Accelerating Rooftop Solar - what should be done? - Today's CLIDEMY Poll In India, and many other similar economies, while large, ground-mounted solar power plants are being deployed on scale, distributed solar power on rooftops is going really slow in terms of adoption. In India, for instance, while ground mounted...
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