ESRC –ICSSR Workshop
Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change
India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi, India
16- 18th November 2008
London School of Economics (LSE)
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Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)
PROGRAMME
Sunday, 16th November 2008
1900 – 2200 Welcome to participants & Opening dinner
Ambassador Hotel
Ruth Kattumuri, India Observatory, LSE
Monday, 17th November 2008, Conference Room # 1, IIC
09:30 - 10:30 / Registration / Coffee10:30 – 11:00 / Welcome and Introduction
Judith Rees, Grantham Research Institute & ESRC Climate Change Centre, LSE
Kanchan Chopra, Director, IEG
11:00 – 13:00 / Session One : Energy Policy, Sustainability and Environmental Change
Chairperson / Jyoti Parikh, Director IRADe
Discussants / Neil Strachan, Kings College (Lead Speaker)
Anshu Bharadwaj, Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) (Lead Speaker)
Sudhakar Reddy, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)
Vinod Kumar Sharma, IGIDR
Serban Scrieciu, Cambridge University
Lindsay Stringer, University of Leeds
Saumitra Mukherjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
Navroz Dubash, JNU, New Delhi
Rapporteur / Lindsay Stringer, University of Leeds
14:00 - 16:00 / Session Two : Low Carbon Technologies
Chairperson / V. Raghuraman, Principal Adviser, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Discussants / Peter Pearson, Imperial College (Lead Speaker)
H.N. Chanakya, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) (Lead Speaker)
P. Balachandra, IISc
Emily Boyd, University of Oxford
Alex Haxeltine, University of East Anglia
Dimitri Zenghelis,, Grantham Research Institute, LSE
Muthukumara Mani, World Bank India
Rapporteur / Alex Hexeltine, Univ of East Anglia (tbc)
16:00 – 16:30 / Coffee/tea
17:30- 19:00 / Public lecture (Policy Event)
Venue : Taj Ambassador Hotel, New Delhi
Welcome
Chairperson
Panelists
Keynote / Ruth Kattumuri
Nitin Desai
Kanchan Chopra Judith Rees
Nicholas Stern, I G Patel Professor and Grantham Research Institute, ESRC Climate Change Centre, LSE.
‘India’s role in International action on Climate Change’
19:00 onwards / Reception /Dinner
Taj Ambassador
Tuesday, 18th November 2008, Conference Room # 1, IIC
Chairperson / Peter Pearson
Discussants / Judith Rees, LSE (Lead Speaker)
Purnamita Dasgupta, IEG (Lead Speaker)
Dimitri Zenghal, Grantham Research Institute, LSE
K Narayanan, IIT Mumbai
Joyashree Roy, Jadavpur University
Emily Boyd, University of Oxford
B K Chandrasekar, Environment and Good Governance Trust, Bangalore
Sumana Bhattacharya, NATCOM Project, MoEF-GOI
Bharat Sharma, International Water Management Institute
Rapporteur / Preeti Kapuria, IEG
12:30 – 13:30 / Lunch
13:30 - 16:00 / Session Four : Peri-Urban Environmental Sustainability?
This Session is organised by the STEPS, Centre (Social, Technological, Environmental Pathways to Sustainability), based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research in the UK
Chairperson
Presentations
Discussants / Linda Waldman, STEPS
Fiona Marshall, SPRU, University of Sussex
Awadhendra Sharan, Centre for Studies in Developing Societies (CSDS).
Amitabh Kundu, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
Marie - Hélène Zérah, Coordinator of the Research Division (Urban Dynamics), Centre de Sciences Humaines
Ravi Agrawal, Director, Toxic Links
Amita Baviskar, Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Growth
Usha Ramanathan, Lawyer
K.T Ravindran, Professor, School of Planning and Architect
Rapporteur / Hayley MacGregor, IDS, University of Sussex
16:00 – 16:30 / Tea
16:30 - 18:30 / Open Discussion [Way Forward]
Chair Person / Judith Rees, LSE
Panellists / Peter Pearson, Imperial College
Neil Stratchan, Kings College
Anshu Bharadwaj, CSTEP
H.N.Chanakya, IISc
Linda Waldman, STEPS, IDS
Kanchan Chopra, IEG
Jyoti Parikh, IRADe
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