Roli Srivastava

Mumbai

Correspondent at Context

Journalist, Founder @TMigrationStory Ex- @ContextNewsroom, @the_hindu @timesofindia; @fjawards @Laadli_PF awardee; Speaker @gijn; @BoschStiftun fellow;

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Articles

Global coverage on the gender-climate nexus: from leadership to early warning systems

2 months ago | cleanenergywire.org | Marta Abbà |Uchenna Igwe |Roli Srivastava |Yinka Omoregbe

By Marta Abbà for inGenere, December 2024 (Italy) Translated from Italian Now that the hot days of COP29 are behind us, to understand where we are and how to continue this fight for rights even with the spotlight elsewhere, we asked some questions to Erika Moranduzzo, jurist, researcher at the British University of Leeds and coordinator of the Climate and Rights section of the Italian Climate Network , an association of volunteers for the fight against climate change founded in 2011 and aimed...
Bamboo bonanza: how a village in India used its forest to go from poverty to prosperity

Dec 16, 2024 | theguardian.com | Roli Srivastava

It’s late morning and the sound of axes clacking against wood echoes through Pachgaon’s bamboo forest in the central Indian state of Maharashtra. A huge depot, larger than a cricket stadium,is full of bamboo branches, stacked neatly by size in different sections. Nearby is a small, windowless office painted in the colours of the forest – a record-keeper of Pachgaon’s turnaround from abject poverty to relative wealth in just over a decade.
Social barriers risk leaving women behind in India's greener future

Nov 21, 2024 | cleanenergywire.org | Roli Srivastava

When college graduate Mona Kumari came across a pamphlet circulating in her neighbourhood in Rajasthan about a government-sponsored solar power training course, she quickly signed up, hopeful of finding work easily at the many solar parks dotting her home state in northwestern India. “I had heard about the solar power boom, that solar was this big industry and that there would be many opportunities. I joined the course for that reason.
Weak gender focus at COP29 risks leaving women behind in greener future

Nov 21, 2024 | climatechangenews.com | Roli Srivastava

In India, social barriers make it tough for women to work in the solar sector, as experts call for more attention to green skills in global climate politics Weak gender focus at COP29 risks leaving women behind in greener future
India, donor countries give up on energy transition partnership

Nov 20, 2024 | climatechangenews.com | Roli Srivastava |Julian Wettengel

India and a group of countries including the U.S. and Germany will not agree on a so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a key international deal that was meant to promote the South Asian nation’s climate-friendly transition. A German government official said that the two sides had agreed to not pursue the JETP any further, which would have included financial and technical support to help India move away from fossil fuels like coal.
India, donor countries give up on Just Energy Transition Partnership - German official

Nov 19, 2024 | cleanenergywire.org | Roli Srivastava

Photo: CLEW/Wettengel India and a group of countries including the U.S. and Germany will not agree on a so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a key international deal that was meant to promote the South Asian nation’s climate-friendly transition. A German government official said that the two sides had agreed to not pursue the JETP any further, which would have included financial and technical support to help India move away from fossil fuels like coal.
how ice-cream saved drought-hit farmers in India

May 2, 2024 | msn.com | Roli Srivastava

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Cool solution: how ice-cream saved drought-hit farmers in India

May 2, 2024 | theguardian.com | Roli Srivastava

The parched villages of Gangapur in the desert state of Rajasthan have a new season in their calendar. Between November and February, car workshops along the town’s dusty mile-long market open before sunrise, cylindrical stainless-steel food containers are put on display, and traders stock up on chocolate and strawberry syrups. Come March, the villagers start preparing to migrate.
On the hysterectomy trail: Why are some Indian women missing their uteruses?

Apr 2, 2024 | hindustantimes.com | Roli Srivastava

A recent New York Times report on the hysterectomies that young women in rural Maharashtra undergo threw the international spotlight on a long-standing issue.
It takes a village: the Indian farmers who built a wall against drought

Mar 28, 2024 | theguardian.com | Roli Srivastava

The villagers of Surajpura have built a wall: a 15ft (4.5 metre) mud bulwark that snakes through barren land for nearly a mile, with an equally long trench dug beneath it. It might not look like it, but for the 650 residents who toiled on it for six months in 2022, it is an architectural marvel.