Dr. Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi, a Senior Researcher with Divecha Centre for Climate Change, visited Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto between 14 and 18 January 2018, to participate in the Future Earth Workshop on Sustainable Consumption in Asia. Dr. Chaturvedi also attended the regional advisory committee meeting of the Future Earth Regional Centre for Asia, on behalf of Prof. S. K. Satheesh.

The Workshop on Sustainable Consumption in Asia was organized by the Future Earth Regional Centre for Asia from 15 to 16 January 2018. This included a public symposium in collaboration with Kyoto University, and a workshop at the RIHN. The event aimed to strengthen the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Networks on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production. The main purpose of the workshop was to develop a framing of sustainable consumption that is meaningful across the globe (i.e. in the global South and North) and to provide input to region-specific engagement strategies for this expanding global network of scholars and practitioners. On the second day of the workshop, Dr. Chaturvedi presented Divecha Centre’s recent work on the co-benefits of decarbonization of India’s power sector.

The full work is available here:  http://dccc.IndianInstituteofScience.ac.in/Policy_Brief_January_2018.pdf 

Dr. Chaturvedi had participated in the Regional Advisory Committee meeting of Future Earth Asia region on 17 January, 2018. He presented the annual progress report of Future Earth’s South Asia Regional Office hosted in DCCC to the Advisory Committee members. At the RAC meeting, our request to grant a permanent status to the regional office in DCCC was unanimously agreed on by the members.