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Extreme weather events are becoming the norm as a result of the climate crisis In2019 nineteen extreme weather events across the globe claimed 1357 lives In thismonthrsquos featured article State Action Plan 20 Time to Get Vocal for Local CSTEPresearchers Roshna N and Dr Indu K Murthy discuss how state action plans forclimate change currently being revised are a crucial platform to drive key leversfrom policy to action and why local buy-in can help find long-lasting solutions toregional climate issues

CSTEP Change-makers

The central government recently sanctioned subsidies for ~7000electric buses hoping to provide an impetus to electric busndashbasedpublic transportation But a limited understanding of this noveltechnology and the associated infrastructure is a major obstacle inachieving the governmentrsquos goals CSTEP is building a planning toolthat can expedite the deployment of electric buses in India The toolwill provide intricate details to relevant stakeholders on how best touse the technology

mdashDr Vinay S Kandagal Research Scientist

CSTEP in the News

Our work is being covered by prominent mainstream newspublications The Hindu interviewed Dr Jai Asundi ED in which he

spoke about the need for implementing clean air action plans toreduce air pollution

Sreerekha Pillai our Chief Editor wrote in the Deccan Herald abouthow policy interventions have helped the state of Karnataka stand

apart from the rest of the country with regards to child nutritionduring the pandemicWhile the rest of the country struggled to copewith forms of malnutrition such as stunting and wasting Karnataka

managed to buck the trend with good governance

Viswanath Dibbur wrote about how the adoption of hydrogen couldhelp India retain its edge as one of the leading steel producers in the

world

Dhruv Rajeev and Abhishek Nath wrote about why the rooftop solarsegment is a boon for Indiarsquos energy transition and how greater

cohesion between stakeholders can accelerate Indiarsquos transition toclean energy

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Priyavrat Bhati and Dr Pratima Singh wrote about how central fundsof INR 2200 crore to fight air pollution can be misallocated without a

proper guiding framework on how to use these funds

Solutions

The India Energy Transformation Platform identified keyinterventions to help achieve a renewable-energy dominant future forIndia These include deploying complementary energy storagesolutions implementing sector coupling to fully take advantage ofthe opportunities in renewable energy establishing standardguidelines for procurement of storage solutions increasinginvestments in RampD for technologies to enable this transition andcreating an enabling ecosystem (markets) for emerging technologiessuch as hydrogen Read more about IETP here

Tipping the Scale

CSTEP researcher Poornima Kumar presented the SustainableAlternative Future for India (SAFARI) model at the AGU ConferenceThe model is a decision-support system for policymakers to assessand visualise the materials and resource demand likely from meetingthe Sustainable Development Goals It acts as a test bed of policydecisions and helps balance our developmental aspirations with ourclimate goals

Events

In December 2020 CSTEP conducted the second edition of ourdiscussion series on the Role of Science amp Technology in SocietyThe two-day event saw prominent figures working at the intersectionof science technology and society discuss the most pertinent issuesin science and applying science to solve societyrsquos challenges Thefull recording of the discussions is available here Day 1 and Day 2

On Our Minds

Over the last year we published four newsletters exploring studiesconducted by the India Energy Transformation Platform (CSTEP is

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the secretariat of this platform) The platform was founded in 2019with support from the Swiss Development Agency and ShaktiSustainable Energy Foundation and it examines how technologiescan accelerate and shape Indiarsquos transition towards energy-efficientand clean energy You may read the newsletters here

Technology and policy solutions for renewable energyUrban space coolingDistributed energy systemsDecarbonising opportunities in industrial heating systems

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