Symposium Schedule (Tentative)

Time

Activity

9:00

Registration and Tea

9:30

Welcome (Ashish Garg)
Address by Director, IIT Kanpur
Address by Sudhakar Kesavan

Plenary Session

10:00

Address by Chief Guest
Dr. Anil Jain, Coal Secretary (Online)

10:15

Address by Guest of Honor Dr. Ajay Mathur, ISA (Online)

10:30

Plenary Talk
Mr. Ashish Tiwari, Secretary, Department of Environment, UP Govt. (Online)

10:45

Discussion and High tea

Session-I

Sustainability Issues and Pathways
Chair: Mr. Shirish Sinha, CIFF (11:15-11:20)

11:20

Dr. Navroz Dubash, CPR (Online)

11:35

Dr. Nitin Pandit, Ex-Director, WRI and ATREE

11:50

Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur

12:05

Q/A

12:15

Break

Session-II

Implementation Challenges and Opportunities Chair: Dr. Pradip Swarnakar (12:25-12:30)

12:30

Dr. Jai Asundi, Executive Director, CSTEP
Systems Thinking for Examining Sustainable Future

12:45

Dr. Raj Shekhar, Commissioner, Kanpur Mandal

13:00

Dr. S.N. Tripathi, Professor, IIT Kanpur
Scientific and Technological Solutions for Clean Air

13:15

Mr. Amitabh Sinha, Resident Editor, Indian Express Pune

13:30-14:30

Lunch Break

14:30

Dr. Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Fellow (CEEW) - Online

14:45

Mr. Alexander Hogeveen Rutter, ISA
Achieving Economic Carbon Neutrality in the Power Sector

Session-III

Chairs: Dr. Mousami Prasad and Mr. Vaibhav Chowdhary

15:00-16:30

Panel Discussion (Netzero and sustainability roadmap for India: Challenges and
Opportunities - Discussion Points: Climate Finance, Enviornment & Ecology, Decarbonization, Just Transition)
-Nitin Pandit (WRI)
-S.N. Tripathi (IITK)
-Anil Srivastava (Former Secretary, GoI)
-Amitabh Sinha (IE)
-Alexander Hogeveen Rutter (ISA)
-Swapnil Joshi (Infosys)
-Vivek Adhia (BCG)
-Shirish Sinha (CIFF)

16:30

Closing remarks and vote of thanks

16:40

Networking Tea and Posters