Vikrom Mathur

Founding Director @Transitions_Res • Senior Research Fellow @orfonline • Senior Research Fellow @CSBC_AshokaUniv • Affiliated Researcher @SEIresearch

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

Excited to be heading to @Mumbai_Climate next week, with so much momentum building around climate action conversations in #Mumbai. If you’re around and would like to connect over coffee, let me know and we can try to find a time that works.

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

@dkundu1
@NIUA_India
@c40cities

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

As we head toward the end of #COP30, the year of adaptation and implementation, we need a climate-ready workforce that can turn ambition into action. This starts with city officials who deliver climate plans on the ground.

Join us to explore the pathway: https://t.co/1snPvgxkYF

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

We will be joined by:
Mr. Abhijit Ghorpade, State Climate Action Cell
Dr. Debolina Kundu, NIUA
Ms. Shruti Narayan, C40 Cities

The session will be moderated by Bharath Haridas, Programme Director, Monsoon Academy

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

@ClimateGroup, @AdiBahadur , @RCClimate , @c40cities , @JaiAsundi , @CSTEP_India, @rishikadasroy , @IndiaClimCollab, @Transitions_Res

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

Our fellowship to train city officials in Maharashtra in climate skills kicks off today.

As part of our newly launched Climate Action in Cities Fellowship, domain experts will deliver weekly live sessions on critical topics including heat stress, mobility, disaster management, public health, and more.

Scroll to learn more about the faculty shaping this journey.

Read more about them here: https://t.co/CDH9DLnToG

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

Over the past few months, @Transitions_Res, we’ve been quietly working to close a major gap: India has ambitious sustainability goals but lacks a skilled workforce to drive them.

We are thrilled to launch the Climate Action in Cities Fellowship in collaboration with the State Climate Action Cell, Government of Maharashtra, to equip City Climate Action Cells across 44 #AMRUT cities with the expertise and tools to lead low-carbon, climate-resilient action.

Read more about the fellowship here: https://t.co/7BQcyAsAtL

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

What role does India envision for women in its #AI mission?

@AngelinaChamuah and Nupur Khanter, Deputy Director and Research Associate at @Transitions_Res, write in their @htTweets op-ed for #WorldYouthSkillsDay about the need for skilling programs that are designed to enable women to take on more prominent roles in India's AI mission—beyond just serving at the back end of the AI value chain.

🔗Read: https://t.co/8QzM2jxCsR

#SkillsForAll

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

Four years ago, I founded @Transitions_Res to conduct applied social science that not only investigates but actively drives sustainable transitions in India.

Too often, climate action is framed as a technical problem. But real change lies in transforming the social norms, practices, and institutions that shape how we live and govern.

At TR, we see sustainability as a societal issue. Through participatory, context-driven research, we co-create solutions that catalyse behavioural and systemic change.

We seek not only to understand the dynamics of change, but to be part of it.

Happy Birthday to Transitions Research! Watch our story below.

#JustTransitions #ClimateAction

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

Climate action is incomplete without behavioural change. How do we shift mindsets, shape low-carbon habits, and build a sustainable future?

I’ll be speaking at @csbcashoka 's @london_climate event on June 26, on using behavioural science to drive climate action in the #GlobalSouth.

🔗Join us for insights on overcoming barriers and designing people-centric solutions: https://t.co/Y0navfjWk0

#BehaviouralScience #ClimateJustice

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

London bound for @london_climate! #LCAW🌍

As part of @Transitions_Res, I am especially excited to join conversations around societal resilience to climate impacts and the role of social and behavioural change in shaping low-carbon futures.

Let’s build inclusive, low-carbon futures together. DM if you're around - coffee, ideas, collab?

#LondonClimateActionWeek #ClimateAction #lowcarbonfutures

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

Our mountains have become dumping grounds. A lack of segregation, made worse by tight budgets, crumbling infrastructure, and a shortage of skilled workers, is pushing us toward disaster.

Change begins with segregation, but it first requires a mindset shift in how we, as Indians, think about waste.

🔗Read my latest piece for Science Matters on the urgent need to protect the Himalayas from becoming mountains of waste: https://t.co/zk3FLzBdTX

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

🇮🇳 India doesn’t just have a waste problem — it has a denial problem.

We ignore what we throw away, hoping someone else will deal with it.

This #WorldEnvironmentDay, for @orfonline, I argue that no policy or infrastructure can fix this unless we radically change how people think about waste.

We need to build a culture of circularity from the ground up.

🔁 Read here: https://t.co/IRYywEE2ru

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

#Gigworkers operate in constant transition, from restaurant to doorstep, from task to task. In a way, cities are their offices.

However, platforms do not recognise delivery workers as employees, absolving themselves of any responsibility for occupational safety.

As cities heat up, this lack of accountability is untenable. The responsibility of ensuring worker safety must rest with both platform owners and the government.

Research Associate at @Transitions_Res Nupur Khanter’s powerful commentary for @MongabayIndia calls for our cities to be designed in a way that upholds the workers’ right to rest, relax, and find relief from heat.

🔗 Read here: https://t.co/KRekhy3LEw

But the pressing question remains: When will platforms acknowledge their role in ensuring basic protections for workers and help steer the changes needed in our cities' frameworks to accommodate gig workers' working conditions. And when will governments step in to support and enforce these safeguards?

[Vikrom Mathur @vikrom_mathur]

Communities in the #GlobalSouth are responding to extreme heat in innovative ways.

However, many of these adaptation efforts remain fragmented, siloed, and lack the necessary policy and funding support.

@Transitions_Res, with support from the @Adapt_Alliance, engaged with grassroots organisations across the Global South to create this compendium of community-driven solutions to combat extreme heat: https://t.co/24CdPdTkSl

These solutions—spanning five themes: nature-based, behavioural, infrastructure and design, technological, and advocacy and governance -- show that effective solutions already exist, but require large-scale support to evolve into successful and sustained adaptation efforts.

[Samir Saran @samirsaran]

COP29, a cop-out on responsibility

Biden called it a “historic outcome” & Ursula von der Leyen claimed the Baku deal signalled “a new era for climate cooperation and finance”

if this is a new era, it is far from one of cooperation

⁦@vikrom_mathur⁩ https://t.co/eNRaZ21E0K

[Dr Aaron Savio Lobo @meenscientist]

How is climate change affecting our food systems ? Here are my thoughts on the struggle of sheep agro-pastoralists, forced to walk from Karnataka to Goa due to poor rainfall and shrinking pastures. 🌍🌾 #ClimateImpact #Foodsystems @MongabayIndia
https://t.co/u67IFNpS0S

[Nishant Sirohi @nishantssirohi]

Climate change = public health emergency 🌍🌡️😷

Why does the @WHO call climate change the "single biggest threat to health in the 21st century"? 🌍

I discuss this in my latest article with Lianne, “A Warming Warning: Why Climate Crisis is a Public Health Emergency,” which was published by @orfonline.

[Transitions Research @Transitions_Res]

🌍The @WHO has recognised climate change as the "single biggest threat to health in the 21st century."🌡️ Read @nishantssirohi and Lianne’s pertinent blog, “A Warming Warning: Why Climate Crisis is a Public Health Emergency” published by @orfonline here:  https://t.co/Ys65pChg4L