Leela Raina

Economist @worldbank
Practitioner. Policy 4
Climate change. Sustainability. Green Finance

Systems thinking 🌏🌐
Salsa 💃.Art. Trained 🤡.

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[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

What does green COVID recovery look like? Learn from @GOVuz 's experience in pioneering the green transition. Join us at the closing roundtable on 17 Feb, details (https://t.co/gT74f24VzQ )@recca_carec @WBG_Environment @mmantovanelli1 @WBG_Climate @WorldBankECA @UNDP_Uzbekistan

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

Welcoming 2025 with much fun #snow #WashingtonDC

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

Not only is @KochiAirport the first to be fully powered by solar 🌞, but you can also pick up the days newspaper for free!!!! Quite a range of #ESG initiatives on this one!
Here is Dad @Rainassance enjoying his daily @the_hindu on old school seating. Loved our trip to #Kerala.

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

The world bank's @WBG_Environment largest wildfire investment in the world kicks off with an official project launch showcasing Turkiye's forest stewardship in the region.

[World Bank Türkiye @WorldBankTurkey]

The Government Türkiye and the @World Bank launched the $400 million Türkiye Climate Resilient Forests Project to strengthen the country’s capacity to protect people and forests from wildfires. https://t.co/86uSU359bQ

[World Bank Türkiye @WorldBankTurkey]

The Government Türkiye and the @World Bank launched the $400 million Türkiye Climate Resilient Forests Project to strengthen the country’s capacity to protect people and forests from wildfires. https://t.co/86uSU359bQ

[World Bank Türkiye @WorldBankTurkey]

#Türkiye Hükümeti ve #DünyaBankası, ülkenin  insanları ve ormanları yangınlardan koruma kapasitesini güçlendirmeyi amaçlayan 400 milyon ABD$ tutarındaki Türkiye İklime Dirençli Ormanlar Projesini uygulamaya başlıyor. https://t.co/aR1NFu4yui

[Kautilya School of Public Policy @KautilyaSPP]

Kautilya is marking #EarthWeek by engaging with experts dedicated to forging a more #sustainable world!

In this brief interview clip, Ms. @leelaraina discusses how Green Finance contributes to positive #environmental impacts. She focuses on two critical investment areas— #climate mitigation and adaptation—and their direct effects on our lives.

#climatechange #earthday #indiabykautilya #policymakers #collegesanduniversities #KautilyaSchoolOfPublicPolicy #publicpolicy #student #innovation @GITAMUniversity

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

Epic delay at @TurkishAirlines @igairport. Passengers stranded sans water and food with delays and cancellations at gates. Hoping to fly into Astana tonight in time for planned site visits to see climate action implemented on the ground.

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

Closing set on transit pier @WharfLifeDC and big chief @donharmusi is pulling in the crowds with his magic on the #saxophone

He is now doing an encore #mardigras and bringing New Orleans to DC

Thank you @dcjazzfest
#volunteer #joy

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

Loving volunteering at the #DCjazzfest where iconic legends are mixing it up with the new kids on the block.

Grateful to have grown up on jazz, because dad's so fond of it.

Thank you @dcjazzfest @SWDCnewsies @WharfLifeDC for making dad's first visit to America to special.

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

We are so excited to see one of our favourite books 'to kill a mocking bird' come alive on stage tonight. Thanks to @kencen #aaronsorkin #barlettsher for making Papa's first visit to America very special #kennedycenter #WashingtonDC

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

"Mann Replies on Wildfires and Climate Change" | My debunking of Bjorn Lomborg as it appears in today's print edition of the Wall Street Journal (@WSJ):

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

Conversations with the #SuperMoon #bloodmoon

Captured by @Hasselblad on @oneplus from my window in southwest DC. @SWDCnewsies @SWDCScoop #nofilter

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

Thank you @wmata for a painless experience. My father now has a senior card and this is going to make his first visit to America very special!

@Rainassance is born on the 4th of July so we had to do a national Mall photoshoot.

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

The nextgentech solution being proposed for climate resilient infrastructure -

painting large buildings, warehouses and infra WHITE, to keep them cool.

Wonder how this stacks up against natural sustainable materials like clay and bamboo @aaraman ?

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

A big thanks to my profs @smmour @charlie74palmer, @simondietz, @lucataschini who now teaches at @uoebusiness and the guru @lordstern1

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

>11yrs post graduating 4m the founding batch of climate economists at @LSEnews @GRI_LSE @LSEGeography, its now become cool 😎 to be one, in an increasingly warming world.

Join us. Apply your skills to make the planet liveable, especially for the most vulnerable.

[World Bank Group @WorldBankGroup]

Are you a development professional with expertise in climate change or a climate economist interested in working at the World Bank Group? Join @WorldBank @IFC_org and @MIGA through the World Bank Group Young Professionals Program. Go to: https://t.co/47SI4KnZl4

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

Great initiative @nikmccaren , you're inspirational! More power to you in your quest to nurture the next generation of young #uzbeki professionals and solve some of the biggest environmental challenges of modern time.

[Nikita Makarenko @nikmccaren]

It was such a pleasure to present the Aral Dream initiatives to a wonderful team from the @WorldBank who fights against the consequences of climate change and poverty. I look forward to working together for the prosperity of Karakalpakstan and the people of the region.

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

The Northern Atlantic Ocean is heating up so rapidly that it is literally, nearly off the charts. Pay heed. This is well beyond record-breaking.

[Matt Jones @Jones_MattW]

New @OECD report "Taming Wildfires in the Context of Climate Change" gives an incisive account of what #climate change means for #wildfire risk, and how policies can confront the issue.

https://t.co/8IH3skP0Fo

Proud to see that our review proved so useful to the report

👇

[Leela Raina @leelaraina]

Snow leopard enterprises for the win!!!! @koustubh_sharma

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Snow leopard sightings in the Himalayas are so rare that they are known as the “ghosts of the mountains,” but climate change is threatening the survival of the species 🐆