Climate at Mittal – News and Media
Sep 4, 2024 | New Faculty Grants for Climate Research on South Asia
The Mittal Institute is excited to announce a new funding opportunity for faculty research on climate change in South Asia in the academic year 2024-2025.
Aug 1, 2024 | Harvard Project Tracks Heat’s Impact on India’s Most Vulnerable
Members of the Mittal Institute climate team traveled to Ahmedabad City in Gujarat, India, to work with SEWA in deploying sensors to collect temperature data from poor working women and their environments. Their work occurred concurrently with one of the most extreme heatwaves India has ever faced.
June 23, 2024 | Op-ed in The Indian Express: “First, understand that this is no ordinary heatwave”
In an op-ed in The Indian Express, members of the Mittal Institute climate team + partners working on climate change adaptation in South Asia write on heatwaves and the need for a detailed understanding of how different communities are impacted by and react to the heat.
May 23, 2024 | Look Back: One Year of Mittal Institute’s Climate Platform
In 2023, the Mittal Institute launched a new Climate Change in South Asia Platform, bringing together researchers from different disciplines including medicine and public health, climate science, and economics.
May 14, 2024 | Bridging Social Justice and Climate Action: A Q&A with Biraj Patnaik
In this third installment of a new interview series with Mittal Institute’s Climate Change Platform collaborators in South Asia, we delve into a compelling conversation with Biraj Patnaik, the Executive Director of the National Foundation for India, who offers unique insights into the intersection of climate change and social inequality.
April 16, 2024 | On Community Engagement for Climate Resilience: A Q&A with Mihir Bhatt
In this second instalment of a new interview series with Mittal Institute’s Climate Change Platform collaborators in South Asia, we spoke with Mihir Bhatt, the director of the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute about the challenges faced by the affected poor and vulnerable populations in South Asia.
Feb 13, 2024 | On Climate and Health in Bangladesh: A Q&A
In this first installment of a new series of interviews with Mittal Institute’s Climate Change Platform collaborators in South Asia, we spoke with Sabina Faiz Rashid, Professor and Chair of Health and Poverty at BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Dec 11, 2023 | PBS NewsHour on Extreme Heat’s Impact on Human Health
Watch the PBS NewsHour clip from Dec. 11, 2023, to learn more about the work of Professors Satchit Balsari and Caroline Buckee
Dec 6, 2023 | Policy Brief: Climate Change in South Asia: Requisites for a Sustainable Future
Coinciding with United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute just released a new policy brief, “Climate Change in South Asia: Requisites for a Sustainable Future.”
Nov 29, 2023 | Researchers from Global South probe climate adaptation strategies
Nov 29, 2023 | The Gazette: Harvard CID announces recipients of 2023 GEM Incubation Fund
“The Center for International Development at Harvard University, in collaboration with Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, announced the 2023 Global Empowerment Meeting Incubation Fund recipients”.
Oct 11, 2023 | Applying Pandemic Lessons to Climate Data
Apr 19, 2023 | LMSAI Climate Change Workshop: Reema Nanavaty on the Climate Challenges Faced by Working Poor Women in South Asia
Apr 1, 2023 | The Print India: With focus on improving adaptation, Harvard launches climate change platform at Delhi event
“New Delhi: The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University launched the Harvard Mittal Climate Platform here Friday, following a two-day workshop on climate change it held with government officials, researchers, policymakers, and civil society organisations.”
Mar 22, 2023 | Previewing LMSAI’s Inaugural Climate Change Workshop in New Delhi
LMSAI Director Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, spoke about LMSAI’s climate focus, and previewed the workshop on Climate Change in March 2023 in New Dehli.
Feb 15, 2023 | South Asia, “Ground Zero” of Climate Change, Subject of New Multi-Year Harvard Award
Experts, including three Mittal Institute faculty, embark on ambitious interdisciplinary projects as recipients of Salata grants.
Feb 13, 2023 | The Gazette: Combining forces to accelerate climate action here, there, now
Experts from Harvard and around the world embark on ambitious interdisciplinary projects as recipients of Salata grants
Oct 26, 2022 | On Climate Justice for All: Ajmal Khan Areethala, Mittal Institute’s Raghunathan Fellow
Ajmal Khan Areethala, the Mittal Institute’s Raghunathan Fellow, works at the intersection of the environment, development, and climate change. His current research looks at how universal frameworks of climate justice negotiate with local and specific experiences of climate change in regions of South Asia.