44 min
What's missing in UP elections: with Ekta Shekhar J Queen's Podcast
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Today, Avinash and Ruhie chat with Ekta Shekhar, Director of Climate Agenda, a non for profit organisation based out of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Ekta works with several partners on ground which focus on energy transition, solar energy and air quality and health links. In this episode, she highlights the political space environmental and climate issues during election seasons, and lack of basic things like data for the state, and how communities - especially women are affected time and again from pollution and climate impacting health. She also gives very interesting insights on lack of proper plans from authorities in UP to phase out of polluting industries like brick kilns, and how this affects people health and economy in the long term.
For more info on Climate Agenda's work , follow them on Twitter here @care4air
Follow me @ruhie and @avinashchanchl for any feedback or suggestions!
Today, Avinash and Ruhie chat with Ekta Shekhar, Director of Climate Agenda, a non for profit organisation based out of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Ekta works with several partners on ground which focus on energy transition, solar energy and air quality and health links. In this episode, she highlights the political space environmental and climate issues during election seasons, and lack of basic things like data for the state, and how communities - especially women are affected time and again from pollution and climate impacting health. She also gives very interesting insights on lack of proper plans from authorities in UP to phase out of polluting industries like brick kilns, and how this affects people health and economy in the long term.
For more info on Climate Agenda's work , follow them on Twitter here @care4air
Follow me @ruhie and @avinashchanchl for any feedback or suggestions!
44 min