CSTEP_India

Lack of access to quality energy is detrimental to lives and livelihoods. In this episode of Perspective Xchange, CSTEP ED, Dr Jai Asundi, and Head of Energy & Power Sector, Mr Abhishek Nath speak with Ms Deepali Khanna of The Rockefeller Foundation on improving energy access to meet various UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Credits - Editor: Lydia Sareena; Visual Design: Bhawna Welturkar; Narration: Merlin Francis

In this episode of CSTEP’s podcast series ‘Perspective Xchange’, our Executive Director, Dr Jai Asundi, is in conversation with Dr Mukund Rajan, Chairman – ECube Investment Advisors, and also Chair of the Environment Committee at industry body FICCI. They discuss some important aspects of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) norms, and the role Indian industry needs to play in the areas of climate and sustainability.

Credits - Editor: Lydia Sareena; Visual Design: Bhawna Welturkar; Narration: Garima Singh

In the 6th episode of CSTEP’s PerspectiveXChange podcast series, Mr Pramod Bhasin, Chairman, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), discusses with Dr Jai Asundi, Executive Director, CSTEP, how businesses can act as a force for climate good. They emphasise the need for industry to stop seeing climate change as a hurdle and, instead, look upon it as an opportunity to create newer, better, and more climate-friendly businesses.

Credits: Editor: Lydia Sareena; Visual Design: Bhawna Welturkar; Narration: Merlin Francis

This episode of CSTEP's podcast series ‘Perspective Xchange’ has Dr Jai Asundi, Executive Director, CSTEP, in conversation with Padma Vibhushan awardee, Dr R A Mashelkar, Governing Council Chairperson, Marico Innovation Foundation, and former Director-General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), on how we can nurture an innovation ecosystem in India that maximises the potential and economic impact of research and innovation.

Editor-Lydia Sareena N; Visual Design-Bhawna Welturkar; Script-Garima

The agriculture sector is vulnerable to climate change. In this edition, we discuss the risks posed by the changes in climate and rainfall patterns to rain-fed crops, and how to build their resilience.

Editor-Lydia Sareena N; Visual Design-Bhawna Welturkar; Script-Sreerekha Pillai

In this episode of Perspective Xchange, we have with us Mr Tim Gould, Head of Division – Energy Supply and Investment Outlooks, at the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA). Mr Gould is in conversation with Dr Jai Asundi, Executive Director of CSTEP, and Mr Abhishek Nath, Sector Head – Energy & Power, at CSTEP. They discuss the IEA’s India Energy Outlook 2021, and how India has the opportunity to meet the aspirations of its citizens without following the high carbon-pathway that other economies have pursued in the past.

Credits - Editor: Lydia Sareena N; Visual Design: Bhawna Welturkar; Narrator: Merlin Francis.

The third episode of CSTEP's podcast series, Perspective Xchange, has CSTEP's Executive Director, Dr Jai Asundi, in conversation with Mr CP Gurnani, CEO & Managing Director of Tech Mahindra and former Chairman of NASSCOM, discussing issues around ethics in AI – who decides and how? Resolving this is key to enabling the scalable use of AI for social good.

Credits: Editor, Lydia Sareena N: Visual Design, Bhawna Welturkar: Narrator: Merlin Francis.

The second episode of CSTEP's Perspective Exchange podcast series has CSTEP's Executive Director Dr Jai Asundi in conversation with Mr S Ramadorai, Former Vice Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services, to discuss the way forward for Artificial Intelligence and how it can act as a force for good benefiting all.

Editor-Lydia Sareena N; Visual Design-Bhawna Welturkar; Narrator–Merlin Francis.

India's energy sector is undergoing a dramatic transformation, and the whole world is taking notice. The International Energy Agency has recently published a detailed report titled "India Energy Outlook 2021." In this podcast, CSTEP's Executive Director, Dr Jai Asundi, and Energy & Power Sector Head, Mr Abhishek Nath, discuss India’s power sector, the rising aspirations of its citizens, and the consequent impact on both energy and emissions, in light of the key findings of this report.

Credits: Editor-Lydia Sareena N; Visual Design-Bhawna Welturkar; Script & Narration-Merlin Francis

Perspective Xchange, CSTEP’s new podcast series, attempts to capture different perspectives

from thought leaders, industry experts, and policymakers on science and technology and its

impact on policy and society.

In our first episode, Dr Jai Asundi, Executive Director of CSTEP, speaks to Mr Kris

Gopalakrishnan (Chairman, Axilor Ventures, & Co-Founder and Former Vice-Chairman of

Infosys) and Mr TV Mohandas Pai (Chairman of the Board, Manipal Global, & Former Infosys

Board Member) on the implications of the National Research Foundation, announced in the

Union Budget 2021-22.

Credits: Editor-Lydia Sareena N; Visual Design-Bhawna Welturkar; Voice Over: Merlin Francis