Dr Minal Pathak is a Senior Scientist of Working Group 3 of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC - United Nations Body) and an Associate Professor at Ahmedabad University. In this episode, ‘Understanding the Future of Science-based Targets’, with Dr Minal Pathak, we started the discussion by understanding the importance of mitigating climate change and different aspects that India can focus on to mitigate climate change.
She helps us understand the IPCC in detail, what are the different working groups, and the different chapters of the report. Further, we discussed the challenges and gaps that are there to be filled to reach the climate goals and how different countries are progressing. We also discussed the challenges faced by the Mitigation Working Group and understood it from a global and national level. We delved into the major climate challenges that India faces, different ways to mitigate and the role of technology in it. We also had in-depth conversations on Net Zero, and CCS (carbon capture and storage). Further, we also talked about the behaviour problem from an Indian context and how people can be made more aware of climate disasters happening regularly. Lastly, we discussed what are the different skill sets that would be required for tackling climate change in India and more importantly from the mitigation perspective.
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