Hindustan Times has built an exclusive national platform to try to felicitate the TOP 50 brightest young minds in India who have been involved with climate change ideas. The Brightest Young Climate Leaders may be from the private or public sector, entrepreneurs, youth or student leaders who have shown exemplary work in the field of climate change mitigation. They [...]

Earlier this month, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) announced a National Biomass Cookstove initiative which will provide efficient cooking stoves to rural areas.  According to the MNRE press release, 80% of residential energy in India comes from biomass (with 826 million users), which has adverse environmental and health effects, especially on women and children.  [...]

User Post Calling all Climate Crusaders! IYCN’s Agents of Change Program (AoC) is now accepting 2nd round of applications to be part of the \’Agents of Change\’ as the Asian subcontinent youth delegation, for the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention and the fifth Meeting of the Parties [...]

Drawing a Line Under Poverty in *India* - WSJ Delhi Chief offers his criticism of NREGA, using the findings from a recent World Bank Study Food & Agri Business To Require $25-30 Bn Investment in Next 3 Years - Investment in rural business and microfinance no more on the fringe. Hopefully we would start seeing some big [...]

The importance of the financial product microinsurance has been written about before on TC-I (here, here, and here). One constiuency that stands to benefit greatly from the idea of low premium safety nets are farmers, whose dependence on crop yield for income makes them very vulnerable to unforseen weather changes. In light of ongoing climate [...]

You daily dose of headlines Exclusive: Megan Mylan on Smile Pinki ComingSoon.net What I did was a little bit of a reconnaissance, I sent Anandi, my film producer in India, she went out with one of the other social workers and spent days … See all stories on this… India to quantify climate benefits from [...]

User Post GreenMicrofinance Celebrates EARTH DAY 2009 – Launches Online University Forum edit GreenMicrofinance™, a cutting-edge Pennsylvania-based triple bottom line company, has set Earth Day, April 22, 2009, at 5:00 PM EDT, for the launch of its online climate change and microfinance university network, the GMf University Forum™. The GMf University Forum, its own social [...]

TCI had mentioned the StartingBloc fellowship earlier, and this past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the Greater Boston institute at MIT Sloan and Tufts Fletcher School.  To provide some background on StartingBloc, the organization holds three institutes in Boston, New York and London, whose goal is to bring together a cadre of 150 young leaders with a passion for social innovation. [...]

Please contact ajaita.shah[at]gmail.com if you are interested in applying for the following: BRAC Development Institute, BRAC University, Bangladesh Seeking Young Professionals for a Challenging Career in International Development BRAC Development Institute (BDI) is looking for bright, young professionals, interested in an exciting career in development and research.  Selected applicants will be part of a core [...]

The Summer Olympics takes place every four years. So does another, lesser-known event: the Copenhagen Consensus Conference (CCC). The forum involves a group of established and renowned economists discussing the world’s problems, and then prioritizing ways to address those issues. A 2005 video from TED Talks features Bjørn Lomborg, a Danish political scientist, who explained [...]