IGSD works to implement sub-national fast mitigation strategies, protect sinks, and study methane removal, among other efforts.

Strengthening India’s Engagement on Fast Climate Mitigation

This IGSD project addresses non-CO2 climate pollutants in India and encourages and supports India’s leadership with this fast mitigation strategy.

Our India work includes developing and implementing strategic initiatives to reduce non-CO2 climate pollutants at both the national and the subnational state level by identifying technology solutions, fostering collaboration among states in India, and facilitating the flow of private and public investments.

Through policy research, capacity-building, and a commitment to fast action, IGSD aims to enhance climate resilience, slow near-term and long-term warming, and promote sustainable development in India.

Our India work also includes research on the science on teleconnections that impact Indian monsoons and the Himalayan glaciers as well as support for implementing India’s Arctic Policy.

Key Publications

Latest Op-Eds

Team

    • Zerin Osho – Director
    • Raushan Tara Jaswal – Deputy Director
    • Akhil Mithal – Research and Investment Associate
    • Sunandini Seth – India Program Coordinator
    • Akshat Patni – State Coordinator
    • Ravleen Kaur – State Coordinator
    • Abir Saraon – State Coordinator
    • Pranjali Chowdhary – Program Associate
    • Nikhil K. – Media Coordinator
    • Pranjali Chowdhary – Program Associate
    • Priya Arora – Graphic Designer

Contact: Sunandini Seth, sseth@igsd.org

 

IGSD’s India team at COP28, Dubai, in December 2023.

From left to right: Abir Saraon, Sunandini Seth, Raushan Jaswal, Akshat Patni, Zerin Osho, and Ravleen Kaur.

Expanding Fast Mitigation Litigation to Respond to the Climate Emergency

IGSD supports climate litigation efforts around the world with a focus on cases that support fast mitigation efforts by reducing short-lived climate pollutants and protecting natural carbon sinks.

IGSD’s program also promotes efforts to give youth a voice in climate decision-making and litigation, keeping fossil fuels in the ground, protecting the Arctic, and protecting environmental defenders.

Contact: grants@igsd.org

While not short-lived, nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent GHG with a 100-year global warming potential that is 273 times greater than CO2, contributing the equivalent of about 10% of today’s CO2 warming. It also is the most significant anthropogenic ozone-depleting substance not yet controlled by the Montreal Protocol.

The Montreal Protocol’s 2022 Quadrennial Assessment Report calculated that N2O emissions accelerated over the last 20 years and now exceed the highest projections. The anthropogenic N2O emissions in 2020 were the equivalent of more than 20% of the ozone-depleting potential of CFCs, which were the main ozone-depleting substances when the Montreal Protocol was agreed in 1987.

The Montreal Protocol has the capacity, flexibility, compliance mechanisms, and universal UN membership to control global N2O emissions, starting with emissions from the production of adipic and nitric acids.

IGSD is analyzing the possibility of amending the Montreal Protocol to bring N2O under the jurisdiction of the world’s most successful climate treaty.

Coming soon!

Strengthening India’s Engagement on Fast Climate Mitigation

This IGSD project addresses non-CO2 climate pollutants in India and encourages and supports India’s leadership with this fast mitigation strategy.

Our India work includes developing and implementing strategic initiatives to reduce non-CO2 climate pollutants at both the national and the subnational state level by identifying technology solutions, fostering collaboration among states in India, and facilitating the flow of private and public investments.

Through policy research, capacity-building, and a commitment to fast action, IGSD aims to enhance climate resilience, slow near-term and long-term warming, and promote sustainable development in India.

Our India work also includes research on the science on teleconnections that impact Indian monsoons and the Himalayan glaciers as well as support for implementing India’s Arctic Policy.

Key Publications

Latest Op-Eds

Team

    • Zerin Osho – Director
    • Raushan Tara Jaswal – Deputy Director
    • Akhil Mithal – Research and Investment Associate
    • Sunandini Seth – India Program Coordinator
    • Akshat Patni – State Coordinator
    • Ravleen Kaur – State Coordinator
    • Abir Saraon – State Coordinator
    • Pranjali Chowdhary – Program Associate
    • Nikhil K. – Media Coordinator
    • Pranjali Chowdhary – Program Associate
    • Priya Arora – Graphic Designer

Contact: Sunandini Seth, sseth@igsd.org

 

IGSD’s India team at COP28, Dubai, in December 2023.

From left to right: Abir Saraon, Sunandini Seth, Raushan Jaswal, Akshat Patni, Zerin Osho, and Ravleen Kaur.

Expanding Fast Mitigation Litigation to Respond to the Climate Emergency

IGSD supports climate litigation efforts around the world with a focus on cases that support fast mitigation efforts by reducing short-lived climate pollutants and protecting natural carbon sinks.

IGSD’s program also promotes efforts to give youth a voice in climate decision-making and litigation, keeping fossil fuels in the ground, protecting the Arctic, and protecting environmental defenders.

Contact: grants@igsd.org

While not short-lived, nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent GHG with a 100-year global warming potential that is 273 times greater than CO2, contributing the equivalent of about 10% of today’s CO2 warming. It also is the most significant anthropogenic ozone-depleting substance not yet controlled by the Montreal Protocol.

The Montreal Protocol’s 2022 Quadrennial Assessment Report calculated that N2O emissions accelerated over the last 20 years and now exceed the highest projections. The anthropogenic N2O emissions in 2020 were the equivalent of more than 20% of the ozone-depleting potential of CFCs, which were the main ozone-depleting substances when the Montreal Protocol was agreed in 1987.

The Montreal Protocol has the capacity, flexibility, compliance mechanisms, and universal UN membership to control global N2O emissions, starting with emissions from the production of adipic and nitric acids.

IGSD is analyzing the possibility of amending the Montreal Protocol to bring N2O under the jurisdiction of the world’s most successful climate treaty.

Coming soon!

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