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‘India needs more awareness about the climate challenge it faces’: Akshat Rathi

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  • January 17, 2024
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‘India needs more awareness about the climate challenge it faces’: Akshat Rathi

pread across five continents, Akshat Rathi’s (John Murray Press, 2023) tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. Through stories that bring people, policy, and technology together, he reveals how the green economy is not just possible, but profitable. Akshat Rathi is a senior reporter for Bloomberg News based in London, UK, and the host of “Zero”, a climate podcast for Bloomberg Green.

He has a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Oxford, and a BTech in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai. Akshat has worked for Quartz, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. His writings have also been published in , , , Ars Technica, and , among others.

In an interview with Akshat Rathi discusses his book, China’s electric vehicle revolution, India’s push towards renewable energy, Bill Gates’ efforts towards technological solutions to the climate challenge, the problems with emerging technologies such as carbon capture, and the events at COP28 in Dubai, among other things.

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