For the second webinar in our series (July 2020) ‘Climate Change, Environmental Security, and Political Risks’, the Centre for Climate Studies, MAHE, in collaboration with COVINTS and Political Risk & Intelligence Services Management (PRISM), COVINTS hosted Cleo Paskal and Ulka Kelkar for a session on ‘Geopolitics, Geo-Economics, and the Post-COVID-19 Green Recovery’. The event took place on July 9, 2020 during 6:30-8:00 PM (Indian Standard Time).
Our speakers:
Cleo Paskal is an Associate Fellow in the Energy, Environment and Resources department and the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, London. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific with the FDD, Washington, D.C. She works with academia, government, national security professionals, the defence community and others to better understand, explain, anticipate and resolve today's complex challenges. She is particularly interested in the strategic implications of geopolitical, geoeconomic, and geophysical change. She is widely published and a regular media commentator. Her books include the award-winning Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map and the best-selling Spielball Erde. She has contributed to The Diplomat, The World Today, Washington Examiner, and the BBC among many others, and is North America Special Correspondent for The Sunday Guardian (India).
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Ulka Kelkar is Director, Climate program, WRI India. She is an economist with two decades of experience in climate change research, capacity building and outreach. She leads WRI India’s work on climate policy which aims to support India’s pathway to a climate-resilient low-carbon economy through judicious national policies, carbon market mechanisms, and effective implementation in states and cities. Before joining WRI India, Ulka worked as a consultant climate assessment specialist for the Asian Development Bank, and as a research fellow with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE). She collaborated with architects and financial analysts to devise business models for low-cost climate-resilient housing in disaster-prone regions of Bangladesh and Nepal. Her policy contributions include the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) roadmap for regional cooperation on climate change, National Strategy Study on CDM in India, Maharashtra State Action Plan on Climate Change, and the first national communications of India and Bhutan to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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