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GigaWhat: Clean the messy trail
Everything Environment by Mongabay India
08/27/22 • 18 min
The clean energy sector maintains that it is crusading the fight against climate change. But first, governments and companies have to fix the road to making clean energy technologies.
The supply chain to create clean energy technologies is riddled with issues. Unsustainable mineral extraction to make solar cells, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries and other clean technologies pose high social and environmental risks. These scenarios are visible worldwide, especially in less industrialised nations.
A secure and sustainable supply chain can contribute to a clean energy transition.
In this episode of GigaWhat, Mongabay-India Contributing Editor and the podcast host, Mayank Aggarwal, speaks with Jessie Cato (natural resources programme manager, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre) and Saurav Goyal (founding member, Metastable Materials) about various aspects of the clean technology supply chain.
Guests:
Jessie Cato, Programme Manager, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Saurav Goyal, Founding Member, Metastable Materials
Links
The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions, IEA
Critical Minerals for India, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP)
Securing Clean Energy Technology Supply Chains, IEA
Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await, Mongabay
Corporate sustainability due diligence, EU
India’s market regulator takes a step towards sustainable finance, Mongabay-India
KABIL Set up to Ensure Supply of Critical Minerals
GigaWhat episode 1: Clean Waste
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Credits:
Produced and scripted by Kartik Chandramouli
Edited and mixed by Tejas Dayananda Sagar
Copy edits by Aditi Tandon
Production assistance from Ayushi Kothari
GigaWhat artwork by Pooja Gupta
Environomy #5: The One That Got Missed
Everything Environment by Mongabay India
03/07/24 • 20 min
Though farming contributes less than 20% of India's GDP, it provides livelihood support to nearly half of the country's population. It is an extremely challenging occupation, with many from the younger generation unwilling to pursue agriculture.
When the post-economic reforms financially benefited sections of Indian society, how did the farmers feel left out?
In the fifth episode of Environomy, the host discusses the impact of economic reforms on the agricultural sector.
Through Environomy, S. Gopikrishna Warrier takes us through the journey of how environmental economics got interlocked after the economic reforms of 1991. This is a journey for which he had a ringside ticket as a journalist, reporting and writing on the environment for the past three decades.
Writer and producer: S. Gopikrishna Warrier Production Editor: Kartik Chandramouli Audio editor: Tejas Dayanand Sagar
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Imprints: Lake hopping with Anoop Ambili
Everything Environment by Mongabay India
02/03/23 • 38 min
Lake-hopping is Anoop Ambili’s thing. For Ambili, a paleoclimatologist, the Lonar Lake in Maharashtra, Tso Moriri in Ladakh and Renuka in Himachal Pradesh hide clues that help him reconstruct past climate changes going back to 10,000 years.
Ambili is also studying microplastic pollutants in these freshwater lakes. For example, he is looking for pollutants such as microplastics in Renuka lake, a popular tourist spot and also the largest lake in Himachal Pradesh. Information about the changes in the lakes, Ambili believes, will shape how we design policies that address human-caused changes to natural ecosystems.
In this episode, you’ll hear what India’s lakes tell us about our past, present and future. If you listen to Ambili’s poignant observations of lakes and the challenges they face today, I’m sure you’ll look at these water bodies from a different perspective.
Guest: Anoop Ambili, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, IISER-Mohali
Host and producer: Sahana Ghosh
Co-producer and cover designer: Kartik Chandramouli
Audio editor: Tejas Dayanand Sagar
Copy editors: Sapna Verma and Priyanka Shankar
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GigaWhat: What not to do
Everything Environment by Mongabay India
12/25/22 • 31 min
India's renewable energy dreams have been big since the country shifted gears post-Paris climate summit in 2015. The country is now working towards achieving 500 GW of installed capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030. However, every choice has a cost. Rapid renewable energy installation and the transition have left several aspects overlooked. And they have given rise to new issues.
Issues related to land availability and acquisition for mega-renewable projects, impact on biodiversity, lack of involvement of local communities and gender-based plans, lack of financing solutions, absence of waste management and recycling policies, etc.
Considering its impact on society, experts fear that the clean energy sector will follow in the footsteps of the fossil-fuel industry.
The shift from fossil fuels to renewables is needed eventually, but it poses loud questions: What will happen to the states that'll stop producing coal? What'll happen to the millions working in coal and related industries? Are they skilled enough to switch to the renewable sector? Also, is renewable energy coming up in coal-dependent regions in the first place, or is it happening elsewhere? How will the state departments and economy cope with this shift?
In this episode, we will try to understand the challenges that this sector's rapid but probably unplanned growth has thrown. We will examine if there are solutions and what needs urgent attention.
Listen to GigaWhat and explore some of the biggest questions, challenges, and opportunities in India's transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources. Mongabay-India is an online publication dedicated to bringing you stories on science and the environment in India.
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Guests:
Bhargavi Rao, Senior Fellow and Trustee at Environment Support Group
Balasubramanian Viswanathan, Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Selna Saji, Research Analyst, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Credits:
Host: Mayank Aggarwal
Writer and producer: Kartik Chandramouli
Audio editor: Tejas Dayananda Sagar
Copy editor: Priyanka Shankar
Podcast production assistant: Sapna Verma
Episode cover art: Pooja Gupta
GigaWhat: Renewable energy, limited land
Everything Environment by Mongabay India
03/11/22 • 23 min
Let's visualise the sheer expanse of one of India's largest solar parks, the Pavagada Solar Park in Karnataka. An aerial view of the site shows a never-ending sea of glass panels and wires spread across 13,000 acres. That is about 1/4th of the size of Kolkata city.
Then there are smaller solar and wind power plants too. Some are even a fraction of the Pavagada solar plant. These power projects that harness unlimited sunlight and wind need another critical resource, a limited one... land.
Land is essential to install solar panels, wind turbines and transmission lines. And in a country such as India, land is scarce. Most of the land has a human footprint. It could be private or community farmland. Or it could be the village pasture where cows and sheep graze, or it could be a parcel of land that's considered sacred for centuries and worshiped by communities.
In the race to achieve clean energy targets, the pressure falls on such land parcels beyond city boundaries and the people who depend on them. It's well acknowledged by the government, renewable energy companies and all stakeholders in the sector that land availability and acquisition are critical challenges in renewable energy projects.
On the other hand, communities risk losing rights and access to land with unfair or no compensation. So how sustainable and just are clean energy projects in their current form?
Listen to GigaWhat and explore some of the biggest questions, challenges, and opportunities in India's transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources.
Mongabay-India is an online publication dedicated to bringing you stories on science and the environment in India.
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GUESTS:
Karthik Ganesan, Fellow and Director of Research Coordination, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Mrinali Karthick, Database and Collaborations Lead, Land Conflict Watch
Leo Saldanha, Environment Support Group
Sikari Rongpi, farmer, Mikir Bamuni
Kawe Ingtipi, resident, Mikir Bamuni
LINKS:
The Anatomy of A Solar Land Grab
CREDITS
Host: Mayank Aggarwal
Writer and producer: Kartik Chandramouli
Additional reporting: Nabarun Guha
Audio editor: Tejas Dayananda Sagar
Copy editor: Priyanka Shankar
Additional voiceover: Saumitra Shinde
Podcast production assistant: Ayushi Kothari
GigaWhat cover art designer: by Pooja Gupta
GigaWhat: Clean Waste
Everything Environment by Mongabay India
02/24/22 • 23 min
The world is looking towards the sun, wind, and other alternatives for energy, and so is India, as a way to tackle climate change and other environmental issues. The sight of solar and wind farms, rooftops lined with solar panels, and electricity-powered vehicles might soon be common.
For the first episode of GigaWhat, we begin at the end.
Where do solar modules go when they are no longer in use? What happens when a wind turbine finishes its lifecycle? Or when an electric car battery stops working? What happens to the materials that remain after a piece of equipment dies, breaks, or malfunctions? In a world already staring at a giant waste management problem, where will all this new kind of waste go?
In this episode, we will understand why this discussion about waste is vital at the start of the clean energy boom.
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Guests: Subrahmanyam Pulipaka, CEO, National Solar Energy Federation of India Akanksha Tyagi, Programme Associate, Council on Energy, Environment and Water Kush Madan, Founder, UrSolar Satish Sinha, Associate Director, Toxics Link
Show notes: PV Management in India (EU-India TCP)
National Statement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at COP26 Summit in Glasgow
2020 report by the Central Pollution Control Board
How India can Manage Solar Photovoltaic Module Waste Better (CEEW)
Credits: Host: Mayank Aggarwal
Writer and producer: Kartik Chandramouli
Copy editor: Aditi Tandon
Audio editor: Tejas Dayananda Sagar
Podcast production assistant: Ayushi Kothari
GigaWhat cover art designer: by Pooja Gupta
Environomy #2: They Came, They Rapped, They Lobbied
Everything Environment by Mongabay India
02/16/24 • 15 min
In the early 1990s, the anti-Tehri dam and anti-Narmada dam movements were India's most well-known environmental protests. It was not as if only environmental activists were involved with these movements. The developments in Tehri and Narmada were watched keenly by people across the country. In the coming decade, something changed.
In this episode, hear about how a distinct economic and political identity for the Indian middle class after the economic reforms of 1991 changed the way in which they dealt with environmental issues.
Through our show Environomy, S. Gopikrishna Warrier will take you through the journey of how environmental economics got interlocked after the economic reforms of 1991. This is a journey for which he had a ringside ticket as a journalist, reporting and writing on the environment for the past three decades.
Writer and producer: S. Gopikrishna Warrier
Production Editor: Kartik Chandramouli
Audio editor: Tejas Dayanand Sagar
Additional music and archival material courtesy the documentary film Words on Water, written and directed by Sanjay Kak; Kodaikanal Won’t, written and performed by Sofia Ashraf, produced by Justice Rocks Initiative, Vettiver Collective; and the William J. Clinton Presidential Library.
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Wild Frequencies #3: Us and Them
Everything Environment by Mongabay India
08/01/24 • 46 min
If we listen closely, a bird’s call reflects what humans have done to its landscape, and a forest soundscape tells us about habitat health. Listen to the third episode of Wild Frequencies to learn how scientists use bioacoustics to understand animals in a landscape altered by humans.
Wild Frequencies is a three-part mini-series by Mongabay-India, where wildlife researchers from India share their stories of sounds from the animal world. They decode those wild frequencies for us, one song, one howl, and one chirp at a time.
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Guests: TR Shankar Raman, scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation Divya Mudappa, scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation Vijay Ramesh, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Priyanka Hariharan, ecologist, University of Florida K.S. Gopi Sundar, conservation biologist
Reported and written by Shreya Dasgupta and Kartik Chandramouli Editing, music, and sound design by Abhijit Shylanath Episode artwork by Hitesh Sonar Recordings from Valparai by Vijay Ramesh at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Project Dhvani, Meghana Srivathsa, Akshay Anand, Shankar Raman and Divya Mudappa. Recordings of sarus crane calls by Suhridam Roy.
Imprints: Finding molluscs with Devapriya Chattopadhyay
Everything Environment by Mongabay India
12/23/22 • 43 min
What can shells tells us about marine paleoclimate? Shells and molluscs store a wealth of paleoclimate information. Molluscs build their shells with calcium carbonate from the sea water. Their shells record the sea water chemistry, which lets us decipher the changes that occurred in their environment.
Paleoclimate scientist Devapriya Chattopadhyay studies mollusc fossils which help reconstruct the marine paleoenvironment. Her findings revealed that even periods of slight warming affected mollusc diversity in an area considered to be less affected by changes in the climate. In the context of present-day climate change, this paleoclimate research is considered to be very useful in bridging some knowledge gaps.
In this episode of Imprints, Chattopadhyay talks about her fossil-hunting adventures, interesting discoveries and the people she encounters on the field. She also speaks about how infrastructure development could erase records of natural history and the challenge that India faces in setting up a museum for natural history.
Guest: Devapriya Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor, Earth and Climate Science, Paleobiology and Marine Ecology, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER)
Host and producer: Sahana Ghosh, Contributing Editor, Mongabay-India
Co-producer and cover designer: Kartik Chandramouli
Audio editor: Tejas Dayanand Sagar
Copy editors: Sapna Verma and Priyanka Shankar
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Links:
Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity
Predation to climate change: what does a fossil shell tell us?
Imprints: Lake and archive diving with Atreyee Bhattacharya
Everything Environment by Mongabay India
12/08/22 • 30 min
It is fascinating how scientists unearth data for climate science in unusual locations. Atreyee Bhattacharya’s work takes her to lakebeds and libraries. She’s a paleoclimatologist who looks back at past climates to develop the context for understanding recent climate change.
She analyses sediments drilled from old lakes and scours British archival records to reconstruct past rainfall changes. This aids in predictions of future climates.
“Without paleoclimate research, we just wouldn't know that we are in a climate crisis.”
She looks at paleoclimatology as a guidebook to human society - when did humans prosper and didn’t due to climatic factors? Using this knowledge, scientists can work with policymakers to mitigate adverse outcomes.
In this episode of Imprints, Atreyee talks about the toolkit for her profession, her work with economists to understand past famines, the importance of paleoclimatology and the challenges it faces.
Guest: Atreyee Bhattacharya, Research Faculty, University of Colorado, Boulder
Host and producer: Sahana Ghosh
Co-producer and cover designer: Kartik Chandramouli
Audio editor: Tejas Dayanand Sagar
Copy editors: Sapna Verma and Priyanka Shankar
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Everything Environment by Mongabay India currently has 28 episodes available.
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The podcast is about News, India, Environment, Nature, Wildlife, Podcasts and Science.
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