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At the first National ASSURE Dialogue, the shift from building approvals to performance was a central focus of the session ‘Enabling the Transition: Policy, Regulation, and Public Leadership’. The session examined fragmented approval systems, limited access to performance evidence, and the capacity needed to track buildings after occupancy.

Following a presentation by Ritwika Basu, External Consultant, IIHS, a panel moderated by Kavita Wankhade, Head – Governance & Services, IIHS Practice, brought together Guruprakash Sastry, Head – Climate Action, Infosys; Prem P Singh, Chief Town Planner, Government of Haryana; and Vipul Jain, Head – Leasing, Avante Spaces, to discuss how disclosure, incentives, and accountability can support the HPB transition.

Key takeaways from the session included:

→ Energy and water consumption disclosures can establish a transparent basis for assessing performance and identifying improvements.
→ Regulation needs to extend beyond approval and certification to track how buildings perform throughout their operating lives.
→ Incentives should recognise performance beyond minimum compliance; faster approvals are a possible way to reward better outcomes.
→ Common performance expectations need to account for differences in building use and occupancy, supported by digital monitoring and credible verification.

What’s needed next is connecting policy expectations with the systems and people responsible for delivering them.

Access all insights shared at the session via link in bio.

#ASSURE #NationalASSUREDialogue #HighPerformanceBuildings #BuildingSector #RealEstate

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ASSURE’s 10th masterclass webinar explores a question relevant to anyone who develops or designs buildings: how do buyers respond to High Performance Buildings (HPBs)?

In ‘Providence Park: How HPBs Find a Place in the Market’, Gaurav Vakil will walk participants through the process of bringing the titular project to fruition—from translating building science principles into a real residential project, to navigating construction, cost, buyer expectations, and market acceptance.

A mid-rise, residential building located in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad), in Maharashtra, Providence Park shows that high-performance outcomes are achievable regardless of project size, usage, and location.

Architects, engineers, green building consultants, and real estate professionals—this is a session you don’t want to miss.

🗓️ 30 October 2026
🕒 5:30–6:30 PM
📍 Zoom

Registration link in bio.

#HighPerformanceBuildings #EnergyEfficiency #SustainableHousing #ASSURE

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Back with another edition of bothering @nithinkamath with questions.

While we speak about why we do what we do at @rainmatterin and @rainmatterorg internally very often, felt we should share our thoughts with everyone.

And if you have questions for Nithin, do send them. ♥️

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A significant part of EQUINOCT’s work focuses on tidal flooding and the communities living with its impacts. From documenting flood patterns to working alongside affected communities, we believe that understanding the problem is the first step towards building resilience.

We’re grateful to The Climate Brief by Rainmatter for putting together such a detailed video on tidal flooding in Kerala, highlighting the realities faced by coastal communities and the ongoing efforts to address this often-overlooked crisis.

Because making these stories visible is an important step towards creating change.

🎥 Watch the full video to learn more about tidal flooding, its growing impacts, and the work being done on the ground.

#tidalflooding #climateresilience #kerala #community #action

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At the inaugural National ASSURE Dialogue 2026, the session ‘High Performance Buildings in India: Evidence, Experience and Opportunity’ opened with a clear message: evidence across building types, locations, and ownership models shows that significant energy and water savings are possible without compromising comfort or raising upfront construction costs.

The challenge now is not technical feasibility, but making high performance widely achievable and commercially attractive.

Following a presentation by Manish Dubey, Chief – Practice, IIHS, a panel moderated by Aalok Deshmukh, Co-Founder and Managing Director, DEFINE, brought together Manisha JV, Strategic Advisor – Commercial Real Estate and Sustainability; Niladri Mishra, Head – Global Infrastructure and Climate Action, Infosys; and Rao Munukutla, CEO, Bengaluru Airport City Ltd to discuss how owners, developers, and occupiers value performance.

Key takeaways from the session are as follows:

→ Measured outcomes and total operating costs give decision-makers a clearer view of returns.
→ Occupiers increasingly expect building performance and employee wellness, which shapes a building’s ability to attract and retain tenants.
→ Certification offers a common language, but trusted verification shows how buildings perform once occupied.
→ Leases can set performance requirements, and define how retrofit costs and benefits are shared.

The next challenge is extending high performance to smaller offices, residential buildings, and markets beyond the largest cities by making building performance visible and relevant to everyday market decisions.

Access all insights shared at the session via link in bio.

#ASSURE #NationalASSUREDialogue #HighPerformanceBuildings #BuildingSector #RealEstate #EnergyEfficiency

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'Our Safety, Our Responsibility - A Step towards Safely Sharing Space with Leopards'

This Wildlife Week, the Junnar Forest Division, along with WCS-India, got up to engaging with over 1,600 students, youth, teachers, and migrant farm labourers across Junnar’s Otur forest range, sharing practical knowledge to help people live safely alongside leopards.

With the continued support of local stakeholders and driven by the Junnar Forest Division, we hope to sustain this effort to help the local authorities effectively manage human-leopard interactions in Junnar.

This initiative is supported by the Rainmatter Foundation and in partnership with The Habitats Trust.

All photographs of minors (under 18 years of age) were taken with the prior consent of the institutional staff.

#JunnarForestDivision #MaharashtraForestDepartment #WCSIndia #HumanLeopardInteractions #Precautions #WildlifeManagement #Community #Outreach #WildlifeWeek2026

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🍃Our project @indiasandwatch (ISW) has completed 3 years in the public domain, and we invite you to join us in reflection at this milestone!

🗓️Join us on 24th October at 4pm IST to learn more

🔗RSVP here: veditum.org/isw3year (link is in @indiasandwatch's bio)

☮️ISW is an environmental accountability project built to address challenges in the very [socially, ecologically, economically] violent sand mining sector in India.

📝 At the review, we will reflect on this past year and our plans, directions and collaborations for the upcoming year!

🎙️You will also hear from our partners and collaborators at @dotsbyooloi, @wctindia, @berkeleyischool, @awaaz_leadershiplabs, @indiawaterportal, @theprojectwind, @agami_in, and other individuals about the diverse work done in this past year, and what we have in store for the future.

🌸 We’re also launching something special at the event - tune in to learn more!

[Sand Mining, Environment, Governance, Climate Action, India]

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Anchored by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), ASSURE convened its first annual National Dialogue on 7 October 2026 in New Delhi, bringing together policymakers, developers, industry leaders, financiers, and researchers to examine what it will take to scale High Performance Buildings (HPBs) in India.

Across the sessions, participants discussed:

→ what India’s early HPBs have demonstrated, what is driving demand, and what continues to limit wider adoption.
→ how regulation, public procurement, and institutional action can support a shift from design-stage compliance to measured performance in use.
→ what lenders and investors need to see before building performance becomes financially relevant.
→ how individual projects can develop into larger, investible pipelines

These conversations also considered a wider challenge: moving from individual examples of high performance to a building and real estate sector where better performance becomes part of mainstream practice.

The Dialogue highlighted the need to connect evidence, policy, and finance more closely, as better performance data can strengthen regulation and reduce investment risk, while clearer policy and financial signals can create the conditions for wider adoption.

The ASSURE National Dialogue endeavours to build a shared understanding across the sector, identify the barriers to scale, and shape a practical pathway for making HPBs more widely adopted in India.

To learn more about ASSURE’s work on HPBs in India, visit the website—link in bio.

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We carried out a 100 Bori's Bandhan initiative for water conservation in Kewlajhir Village, Khadara Gram Panchayat. With active participation from local villagers, the initiative aims to slow down water flow, reduce runoff, retain water in the landscape, and support groundwater recharge.

This is a simple, community-led approach showing how local action can create meaningful solutions for water conservation. 🌱💧

#waterconservation #boribandhan #EGSS #climatechange

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𝙅𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙒𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙊𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙧 16, 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤-𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘 𝙢𝙤𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨.

Powering India’s EV Transition: Charging Infrastructure, Interoperability, and the Road to Liveable Cities

India’s electric mobility transition cannot be measured by EV sales alone. The real transformation lies in building the infrastructure, policies, and systems that make electric mobility reliable, accessible, and equitable.

This panel brings together a practitioner’s perspective on what it takes to build a functioning EV ecosystem at the city and state level, drawing on Raahgiri Foundation’s on-ground work with subnational governments.

The discussion will explore:
1. Demand-led charging infrastructure — planning networks around where people actually travel
2. Interoperability : Open standards and the Unified Bharat e-Charge model
3. Public transport integration : Connecting the EV transition with accessible and efficient mobility systems
4. Finance and policy : Leveraging the opportunities available to cities and states under PM E-DRIVE
5. Scrappage and road safety : Ensuring the transition delivers broader public benefits

Join us at the Bangalore Climate Week on October 16, 2026, to co-build electric mobility systems.

#ElectricMobility #EVTransition #EVCharging #Interoperability #PMEDrive

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On 22nd August 2026, the @indiasandwatch team from @veditum, with our collaborators @wctindia (WCT) co-hosted our second Convening on Rivers in Bhopal after a year, to take forward conversations on better governed rivers. From Team ISW, @drops_and_gushes, @cyanobacterhea, and @dreamersid were present.

We gathered with community members from diverse backgrounds to discuss actions, ideas, and plans for collective action to protect Madhya Pradesh’s rivers from illegal sand mining.

Read our blog recapping the event for a glimpse into who was there, what we did, and what we dreamed up together!

Follow along with us to learn more about our place based strategies that you can apply to protect your own rivers from illegal and destructive sand mining.

Video edit - @the_rural_kid

#Rivers #India #ClimateJustice #SandMining ClimateAction

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#IntheMedia | What does useful weather information look like for a farmer making decisions under uncertainty?

In The Guardian, Neelima Vallangi reports from Odisha on delayed rains, El Niño and the choices farmers are making as they prepare for an uncertain season.

The story visits Laxmipur in Ganjam, where a Gram Vikas weather station records local conditions and a village weather board makes a seven-day forecast available in Odia.

Gram Vikas Executive Director Liby Johnson speaks about the importance of giving farmers the time and confidence to assess this information for themselves: “We have to instil confidence in the community that the information is accurate and valuable, and let the farmer choose what works best for them.”

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