Senior Associate (Mitigation/Air Quality)
The Senior Associate will be involved in developing models to project India’s future energy demand and emissions, as well as air quality and pollutant exposure, so, a multi-disciplinary modelling background is essential.
No. of Vacancies
2
Responsibilities
Accelerating India’s energy transition through customised state-level action plans
India is ranked fourth globally in installed renewable energy (RE) capacity. Yet, the country has achieved only 32% of its RE target (500 GW by 2030) as of 30 November 2024. While decisions and actions at the central level are crucial, there is a need to focus on sub-national efforts as India is a diverse country with each state having unique challenges and opportunities that are shaped by its geography, resources, and consumer mix.
Four UN environmental summits fell short in 2024. What happened?
The United Nations’ efforts to address critical environmental challenges hit multiple roadblocks this year, with four key summits — in Colombia on biodiversity, Azerbaijan on climate, Saudi Arabia on land degradation, and South Korea on plastics — failing to deliver meaningful outcomes.
India Plans to Develop Top Grade Bioeconomy
The bioeconomy sector is gaining significant momentum globally. The World Bioeconomy Forum values the sector at approximately $4 trillion with the potential to grow to $30 trillion by 2050. Several economies worldwide increasingly invest in bio-based innovations to address their energy, food security, health, and climate mitigation and adaptation issues. India is one of the front runners in its global bioeconomy growth, with a projected bioeconomy worth $300 billion by 2030.
Communication Officer – Visual Design
The Communication Officer (Visual Design) will be a part of the Communication and Policy Engagement team and will be responsible for creating visual communication outputs. The applicant must have a strong understanding of digital and print design and knowledge of various digital channels (including social media), the content formats available within the channels, and how the formats and channels can be leveraged while designing outputs in a creative manner.
Full-Stack Web Developer
The full-stack web developer will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining our web solutions, with a focus on both client-side and server-side technologies. The candidate should have expertise in building robust and scalable web applications using modern front-end and back-end technologies. Familiarity with geographic information system (GIS) integration and modern map libraries would be a significant plus.
India’s textile and apparel sector: Understanding the ecosystem and readiness for implementation of extended producer responsibility
The textile and apparel industry, although a major contributor to global trade, is now becoming one of the most polluting industries worldwide. The rise of fast fashion, characterised by high consumption of low-cost, low-quality clothing, has aggravated the sector’s environmental footprint. Globally, around 92 million tonnes of textile waste end up in landfills annually, resulting in the leaching of harmful materials and leaking of valuable resources from the value chain. Alarmingly, only 12%–15% of this waste goes to recycling facilities, of which only 1% is recycled into new clothing.
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Analyst (Air Quality)
The Analyst will play a key role in providing research support to the team and administrative assistance to all verticals within the Air Quality sector.
No. of Vacancies
2
Responsibilities
Climate finance and the Global South: Negotiating a fair future at COP29
At the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29), India voiced its disappointment at the climate finance announcement of $300 billion annually under the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), and rightly so. This goal was