Time-bound discussions that anchor the Hub’s three-day programme, delivered through plenaries, closed-door dialogues, keynotes, panel discussions and theme-specific sessions.
Inside The Hub
17th – 19th February, 2026 at Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai
About the Hub
The Hub is the central convening space of Mumbai Climate Week, where core conversations, collaborations, and public engagement will come together under one roof. Hosted over three days at the Jio World Convention Centre, the Hub brings together leaders, practitioners, innovators, and citizens to engage with the ideas, solutions, and voices shaping climate action in Mumbai, India, and the Global South.
How the Hub Works
The Hub is structured around two interlinked experiences.
Exhibition Arena
An interactive space within the Hub where climate innovators showcase their solutions, alongside citizen perspectives highlighted through a dedicated speaker corner, VaartaVaran.
Three Days of Curated Climate Conversations and Solutions
Built around three inaugural themes, the programme underscores the need for public–private collaboration among all stakeholders to advance progress. Justice, innovation, and scale cut across these themes, informing how leaders respond to present-day challenges while shaping pathways to future opportunity.
Opening Plenary
09:30 – 11:00 AM
Lotus 2 & 3
speakers:
- Mr. Devendra Fadnavis – Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- Pralhad Joshi – Union Minister for Renewable Energy
- Pankaja Munde – Maharashtra Cabinet Minister for Environment and Climate Change
- Mr. Shishir Joshi – CEO and Founder of Project Mumbai and Chief Convenor of Mumbai Climate Week
- Mrs. Jayshree Bhoj – Secretary Environment, Government of Maharashtra
11:00- 11:30 AM
Lotus 2 & 3
Artificial intelligence and climate change
speakers:
- Stephen Byrd – Global Head of Thematic Research and Sustainability Research, Morgan Stanley
Cross-cutting Plenary
11:45 – 1:00 PM
Lotus 2 & 3
Rewriting the Climate Future
speakers:
- Chad Frischmann – CEO & Founder
- Mridula Ramesh – Founder
- Rajiv Shah – Rockefeller Foundation
02:30 – 03:15 PM
Lotus 3
UNEP x GoM x MMRDA: Beat the Heat- Scaling Sustainable Cooling – Insights from BeCool
speakers:
- Pankaja Munde – Environment Minister Maharashtra
- Martin Krause – Director, Climate Change Division, UNEP
- Phillipe Sas – Head of International Cooperation – Counsellor, SDC
- Krishna Vatsa – Member, NDMA
- Sanjay Mukherjee – MMRDA Commissioner
Lunch / Change Over
01:00 – 02:30 PM
Urban Theme
02:30 – 03:45 PM
Lotus 1
Building Liveable Cities – Strategic Planning for an Improved Quality of Life
speakers:
- Ashif Shaikh – CEO, People’s Courage International, Founder, Jan Sahas
- Amit Chandra – Co-Founder, ATE Chandra Foundation
- Sheela Patel – Founder and Director, SPARC
- Srikanth Vishwanathan – CEO, Janagraha
- Sujith Nair – CEO and Co-founder, FIDE
- Siddharth Sharma – CEO, Tata Trusts
- Neha Kumar – South Asia Head, Climate Bonds Initiative
- Rishika Das Roy – Lead, Intelligence and Advisory, India Climate Collaborative
04:00 – 05:15 PM
Lotus 1
Integrated Resilience Planning 1 – Healthy Air Zones for Local Communities in the Global South
speakers:
- Prof. Amita Bhide – Professor, Centre for Urban Policy and Governance in the School of Habitat Studies, TISS
- Dr. Amita U Athavale – Prof. & Head, Dept. of Pulmonary Medicine & Environmental Pollution Research Centre, Seth. G.S.M.C & KEM Hospital, Mumbai
- Dr. Prasad Modak – Managing Director, Environment Management Centre Pvt. Ltd.
- Shirish Sinha – Executive Director of Programmes, Clean Air Fund
- Debashish Biswas – Partner, Deloitte
- Jayshree Bhoj, IAS – Secretary, Environment and Climate Change Department, Govt of Maharashtra
- Madhav Pai – CEO, WRI India (Moderator)
- Sree Kumar Kumaraswamy – Director – Clean Air, WRI India (Presenter)
- Dr. Rakesh Kumar – President, Society for Indoor Environment; Ex-NEERI
05:30 – 06:45 PM
Lotus 1
Integrated Resilience Planning 2 – Cooling Cities Naturally – Leveraging Blue-Green Infrastructure for Urban Heat Resilience
speakers:
- Chinmayi Naik – Executive Director, Hasiru Dala
- Kamal Lochan Mishra – Executive Director, Odisha State Disaster Mitigation Authority
- Manisha Khatri – Municipal Commissioner, Nashik
- Aklilu Fikresilassie – Director, WRI Africa
- Lucca Rizzo – Senior Climate Finance Lead, ICS
- Avinash Dhakne – AMC (Eastern Suburbs), BMC
- Jaya Dhindaw – Executive Program Director, WRI India
- Lubaina Rangwala – Program Director, WRI India
- Vishwas Chitale – Senior Programme Lead, CEEW
Food Systems Theme
02:30 – 03:45 PM
Lotus 2
Nature, Food & People: Resilient Pathways for the Global South
speakers:
- Dr Bharat Kakade – President, BAIF Development Research Foundation
- Shloka Nath (Moderator) – CEO, India Climate Collaborative
- Cynthia McCaffrey – Representative, UNICEF India
- Manoj Kumar – CEO and Founder, Naandi Foundation
- David Kennedy – CEO, Science Based Targets initiative
04:00 – 05:00 PM
Lotus 2
Scaling What Works in India: From Pilot to Nationwide Agroecology
speakers:
- Vikash Abraham (Moderator) – CEO, Urban Farms Co
- Dr. Ramanjaneyulu GV – Executive Director, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
- Kamyla Borges – Senior Land Use and Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Leader, Institute for Climate and Society
- Satyajit Bhatkal – CEO, Paani Foundation
- Vijay Kolekar – Agronomist and Soil Science Specialist, Project on Climate Resilient Agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Government of Maharashtra
05:15 – 06:15 PM
Lotus 2
Building Better Market Ecosystems: Producer se Consumer Tak
speakers:
- Anjalli Ravi Kumar – Chief Sustainability Officer, Eternal Limited
- Sameer Shisodia (moderator) – CEO, Rainmatter Foundation
- Madhur Bhatnagar – COO, Urban Farms Co
- Bibhu Prasad Kar – CEO, NAB Foundation
- Nidhi Pant – Co-Founder, S4S Technologies
- Steven Goldbach – Principal, Sustainability, Deloitte US
Energy Transition Theme
05:30 – 06:30 PM
Lotus 3
DRE for Development: Scalable Models from India for the Global South
speakers:
- Mr Subramanyam Pulipaka (Moderator) – CEO, NSEFI
- Ms. Abha Shukla (Panel Member) – Additional Chief Secretary (Energy), Government of Maharashtra
- Mr. Manu Srivastava (Panel Member) – Additional Chief Secretary, (Energy), Government of Madhya Pradesh
- Dr. Aquino Vimal (IFS) (Panel Member) – Joint Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
- Ms. Priya Shankar (Panel Member) – India Director, Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Mr. Kamal Lath. (Panel Member) – CFO, Husk Power
- Mr. Kanv Garg (Panel Member) – Resource Mobilization, International Solar Alliance
- Mr. Samir Shah (Solutions Presenter) – Managing Partner, Peak Sustainability Venture
2:30 – 4:10 PM
Meeting Room 204 (A&B)
From Policy to Practice: Advancing 24×7 Renewable Energy for India and the Global South (Energy Transition Theme)
speakers:
- Ashvini Kumar (Moderator) – Former MD, SECI
- Mr. Manu Srivastava IAS (Panel Member) – Additional Chief Secretary, New & Renewable Energy Department, Govt. of MP
- Mr. Lokesh Chandra (Panel Member) – Chariman & Managing Director, Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd
- Ms. Seema Paul (Panel Member) – Program Director, Sequoia Climate Foundation
- Mr Akash Tripathi (Panel Member) – Managing Director, Solar Energy Corporation of India
- Mr Paravastu Rambabu (Panel Member) – Chief Sustainability Officer,Greenko Group Director, Greenko
- Mr Dinesh Jagdale (Panel Member) – President- Corporate Affairs & Retail Business, Suzlon Group
- Mr Shubhendu Bose (Panel Member) – Advisor, UAE
04:20 – 05:20 PM
Meeting Room 204 (A&B)
Enabling Grid Expansion and Integration – Key to Advancing RE Adoption in India and the Global South (Energy Transition Theme)
speakers:
- Agnes Dasewicz – Chief Investment Officer, GEAPP
- Sanjeev Kumar – Chairman & Managing Director, MahaTransco
- Sushil Kumar Soonee – Founder CEO, POSOCO
- Pratik Agarwal – Chairman, Serentica Renewables
- Shirish Sankhe – Director and Founding Partner, ISEG Foundation; Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company
- Disha Agarwal – Senior Programme Lead, CEEW
Change Over for Evening Session
6:30 – 7:30 PM
Lotus 2 & 3
Evening Session
07:30 – 8:30 PM
Lotus 3
An Evening with The Earthshot Prize
speakers:
- Jason Knauf – Executive Director, Earthshot Prize
11:45- 1:00 PM
Meeting Room 204 (A&B)
Scaling up Climate Finance For a Sustainable and Resilient Maharashtra
Focused Room 1 [Energy Transition Theme]
05:30 – 06:30 PM
Meeting Room 204 (A&B)
Focused Session : TBC
05:30 – 06:30 PM
Meeting Room 204 (A&B)
Maharshtra Energy- Economy Modelling Tools: Charting a Green and Viksit Maharashtra
Focused Room 2
02:30 – 03:30 PM
Meeting Room 205 (A&B)
AI in Sustainability (Hosted by Monitor Deloitte)
speakers:
- Vijay Sharma – Global Sustainability Chief Commercial Officer – Deloitte UK
- Debashish Biswas – Partner, Leader Economic Development and Government & Urban Transformation – Deloitte South Asia
- Anjalli Ravi Kumar – Chief Sustainability Officer – Zomato
- Jitesh Shetty – Founder & CEO – Credibl
- Umang Desai – Head, Solution Architecture – Amazon Web Services
- Woochong Um – Global CEO – Global Energy Alliance
03:45 – 05:00 PM
Meeting Room 205 (A&B)
Climate Resilient Urban Infrastructure (Hosted by Monitor Deloitte)
speakers:
- Manish Aggarwal – Partner, Restructuring, Turnaround & Cost Transformation Leader – Deloitte South Asia
- Agendra Kumar – Managing Director – ESRI
- Gianluca Cantalupi – Head of Climate, Nature and Social Risk – JP Morgan
- Harsha Khubchandani – Investment Officer – IFC
- Kiran Avadhanula – Senior Sector Specialist – KFW Bank
- Masood Mallick – Managing Director and CEO – ReSustainablity
05:30 – 07:00 PM
Meeting Room 205 (A&B)
Sustainable Data Centers of Tomorrow (Hosted by Monitor Deloitte)
speakers:
- Will Symons – Partner, Asia Pacific Sustainability Leader – Deloitte Australia
- Shubhranshu Patnaik – Partner and Government & Public Services Industry Leader – Deloitte South Asia
- Benjamin Isaac – Senior Director, Markets – JLL
- Himanshu Kumar – Co-founder and COO – Technavious
- Nikhil Jalan – Principal Blackstone Puneet Rustagi Partner, Master Fund – NIIF
- Vineet Parameswaran – Head-Strategic Partnerships, Google Cloud – Google
CSI Global
3:40 – 4:40 PM
Meeting Suite 201
Unlocking Capital Markets for India’s Green Energy Transition
ICC
5:05 – 6:05PM
Meeting Suite 201
Funding Resilience, Not Just Response – Reimagining the Role of Philanthropy in Community-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction
Sattva
2:15 – 3:15 PM
Meeting Suite 202
Planet-Positive Sourcing: Empowering Communities, Strengthening Business
Blended Finance
3:40 – 4:40 PM
Meeting Suite 202
From Pilots to Portfolios: Financing Climate Smart Agriculture for Smallholders at Scale
Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
5:05- 6:05PM
Meeting Suite 202
Reimagining Partnerships for Climate Action – India and the Global South
WBCSD
2:15 – 3:15 PM
Meeting Suite 203
Senior Leaders Roundtable on the Valuation of Sustainability With JSW & KPMG India
EDF
3:40 – 4:40 PM
Meeting Suite 203
Science as sovereignty: Why India must own the climate science agenda
Credibl
5:05 – 6:05PM
Meeting Suite 203
Designing the Clean Air Playbook: Learning from Proven Initiatives and Co-Creating the Next Wave of Action
HT Parekh Foundation with CSTEP and CEEW
3:40 PM
Meeting Suite 206 (A)
Data for Heat Resilience: What we have, lack & need?
Rainforest Alliance
2:15 PM
Meeting Suite 206 (B)
The Power of Forests: Regeneration and Communities
TRIF
2:15 – 3:15 PM
Meeting Suite 401 (A)
Bamboo Value Chains: Driving Agro-Economic Growth in Maharashtra
McKinsey
5:00 – 6:30 PM
Meeting Suite 206 (A)
Ensuring Indian manufacturing leadership in the global energy transition by McKinsey India
Project Mumbai
3:40 PM
Meeting Suite 206 (B)
Rewriting the Climate Story: The Artist as a change-maker
Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet
5:05 PM
Meeting Suite 206 (B)
Launch of the India Grids of the Future Accelarator
HUL
5:05 PM
Meeting Suite 401 (A)
Scaling Climate Resilient Urban Sanitation by Hindustan Unilever and Dalberg
Aditya Birla
2:40 PM
Meeting Suite 202
Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Securing the Future of Indian Industry (Aditya Birla Group – CEEW – CII -CESD– WBCSD)
4:05 PM
Meeting Suite 202
Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Securing the Future of Indian Industry (Aditya Birla Group – CEEW – CII-CESD- WBCSD)
Opening Keynote (cross-cutting)
09:00 – 09:30 AM
Lotus 1, 2 & 3
Opening Keynote by Mr. Nadir Godrej
speakers:
- Nadir Godrej – Managing Director, Godrej Industries
Cross-cutting Plenary 1
09:30 – 10:30 AM
Lotus 1, 2 & 3
Accelerating Sub-national Climate Action – Key to Advancing Sustainable Economic Growth
Cross-cutting Plenary 2
10:45 – 11:45 AM
Lotus 1, 2 & 3
Future Cities, Interlinked Realities: Governing Climate Shocks in the Global South
speakers:
- Madhav Pai – CEO, WRI India
- Maria Netto Schneider – Executive Director, Institute for Climate and Society (iCS)
- Rohini Nilekani – Chairperson, Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies
- Sanjay Mukherjee – Metropolitan Commissioner, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA)
- D. Thara, IAS – Additional Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
- Nyrika Holkar – Executive Director, Godrej & Boyce
- Shloka Nath – CEO, India Climate Collaborative
- BVR Subrahmanyam – CEO, NITI Aayog
Cross-cutting Plenary 3
12:00 – 01:00 PM
Lotus 1, 2 & 3
Financing at Scale: Mobilising Trillions for the Global South
speakers:
- Mr. V Vaidyanathan (Keynote) – CEO, IDFC First Bank
- Jayant Sinha (Moderator) – President, Everstone Group & Eversource Capital and Former Union Minister
- Amal-Lee Amin – Head of Climate, BII
- Clarisa De Franco – Sr Advisor, Allied Climate Partners
- Imad N. Fakhoury – Regional Director – South Asia, IFC
- Julian Wentzel – Global Sustainability Head, HSBC
- Lawrence Yanovitch – Founder & CEO, One Planet Sovereign Wealth Funds (OPSWF)
1:15 – 1:45 PM
Lotus 1, 2 & 3
Fireside Chat with Ms. Hillary Clinton
Lunch/ Change Over
1:45 – 3:00 PM
Urban Theme
03:00 – 04:15 PM
Lotus 1
Extreme Heat and the Future of Outdoor Work
speakers:
- Mr CK Mishra – Former Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India
- Dr Soumya Swaminathan – Chairperson, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation & Former Chief Scientist, World Bank
- Ms Renana Jhabvala – President, SEWA Bharat
- Ms Anjalli Ravi Kumar – Chief Sustainability Officer, Eternal
- Ms Sujata Saunik – IAS, Former Chief Secretary, Government of Maharashtra
- Dr Radhika Khosla – Associate Professor, University of Oxford / Research Director at the Oxford India Centre. (Moderator)
04:30 – 05:45 PM
Lotus 1
Regional – Airshed based Governance Mechanism for Clean Air
speakers:
- Dr. Beatriz Cardenas Gonzalez – Air Quality Director, WRI Mexico
- Dr. Harish Phuleria – Professor, IIT Bombay
- Dr. Sri Harsha Kota – Professor and convenor CERCA, IIT Delhi
- Dr. Anju Goel – Associate Director – Air Quality Research, TERI
- Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee, IAS – Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA
- M Devender Singh, IAS – Member Secretary, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board
- Priya Shankar (Moderator) – India Director – Climate and Environment Program, Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Sree Kumar Kumaraswamy – Director – Clean Air, WRI India (Presenter)
- Dr. Rakesh Kumar – President, Society for Indoor Environment; Ex-NEERI
06:00 – 07:15 PM
Lotus 1
Innovative Solutions for Livable Urban Futures
speakers:
- Jayshree Bhoj (IAS) – Principal Secretary, Department of Environment and Climate Change, Government of Maharashtra
- Sitaram Shelar – Founder, Pani Haq Samiti
- Natasha Zarine – Founder, Managing Director, Ecosattva
- Mansi Sahu – Co-Founder,Studio Pod
- Pradip Kalbar – Associate, Professor, IIT-B
- Raj Bhagat – Senior Manager, WRI India
- Prerna Langa – CEO, Aga Khan Agency for Habitat
- Radhabinod Aribam Sharma (IAS) – Commissioner, Mira Bhayendar
- Madhav Pai – CEO, WRI India – Moderator
Food Systems Theme
03:00 – 04:00 PM
Lotus 2
Financing the Food Systems Transformation in the Global South
speakers:
- Neha Khanna (moderator) – Associate Director, Climate Policy Initiative
- Matilda Lobo – Executive Vice President, CSR and Sustainable Banking, IndusInd Bank
- Jinesh Shah – Managing Partner, Omnivore
- Dr. Anjali Acharya – MD, Nature Conservancy in India (Nature Conservancy India Solutions)
- Ravindra Singh Negi – Group Chief Risk Officer, Bank of Baroda
04:15 – 05:15 PM
Lotus 2
Technology and Services Economy for a Climate-Smart Food Transformation
speakers:
- Dr. Veena Srinivasan (Moderator) – Executive Director, WELL Labs
- Kairas Vakharia – Senior Vice President Strategy, Farm Equipment Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited
- Mirik Gogri – Sustainability Investor, Spectrum Impact
- Sameer Kwatra – Senior Director India – International, NRDC
- Nikhita Nandakarni – Program Lead, Acumen India
05:30 – 06:30 PM
Lotus 2
Leading with Participatory Action: Communities and Regenerative Food Futures
speakers:
- Mandira Kalaan Kalra (Moderator) – Senior Director and Head of Office, Purpose India
- Amanda Leland – Executive Director, Environmental Defense Fund
- Marcella D’Souza – Director, WOTR Centre for Resilience Studies (W-CReS)
- Nidhi Jamwal – Independent Journalist
- Neha Khara – Project Director, GIZ India
06:45 – 07:15 PM
Lotus 2
Food Systems Wrap-up Session
Energy Transition Theme
03:00 – 04:00 PM
Lotus 3
Transport Transition: Accelerating Clean Mobility and Low-Carbon Freight for the Global South
speakers:
- Sreyamsa Bairiganjan (Moderator) – CEO, Energiva Ventures Private Limited
- Sanjay Sethi (Panel Member) – Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Transport and Ports, Government of Maharashtra
- Archana Mittal (Panel Member) – Programme Director – E-Mobility, NITI Aayog
- Gaurav Dayal (Panel Member) – IAS, Chairperson, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority
- Joymalya Bose (Panel Member) – Assistant Vice President, Propell Industries
- Koyel Mandal (Panel Member) – Director, Climate – India, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
- Srikant Kurup (Panel Member) – Head – Toll & Transit, IDFC FIRST Bank.
- Rajneesh Rana (Panel Member) – Head, Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL)
- Raghavendra Bapur (Panel Member) – Regional Manager, Ashok Leyland
- Umesh Revankar (Panel Member) – Executive Vice Chairman, Shriram Finance Limited
- Devndra Chawla (Solutions Presenter) – MD & CEO, Greencell Mobilty
- Dhanpal Jhaveri (Solutions Presenter) – Vice Chairman, Everstone Group & CEO, Eversource Capital
- Akansha Sharma (Solutions Presenter) – Vice President and Head of Sustainability-Middle East, North Africa and India, DPWorld
- Tajinder Singh (Solutions Presenter) – Head of Government and Institutional Relations, Montra Electric
04:15 – 05:15 PM
Lotus 3
Advancing Green Industrial Growth in the Global South
speakers:
- Girish Sethi (Moderator) – Senior Directior, Energy, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
- Shalini Agarwal IAS (Panel Member) – Managing Director, Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL)
- Thomas Kerr (Panel Member) – IFC, World Bank Group, Principal Climate Policy Officer (International Finance Corporation’s Sustainable Finance Team)
- Om Prakash Bakoria (Panel Member) – Director-General, Maharashtra Energy Development Agency (MEDA)
- Arijit Sengupta (Panel Member) – Director, Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)
- Geoff Tuff (Panel Member) – Principal, Deloitte
- Shikha Hora Kamdar (Panel Member) – Head – Retail Assets, IDFC FIRST Bank
- Esther Finidori (Panel Member) – Global Cheif Sustainability Officer, Schneider Electric
- Laxmikant Jawale (Panel Member) – Regional Lead, South Asia and South East Asia, Apparel Impact Institute
05:30 – 06:15 PM
Lotus 3
From Critical Raw Materials to Manufacturing: Scaling the Green Energy Transition
speakers:
- Rwitika Bhattacharya – CEO, Swaniti Global Initiative(Moderator)
- Hon. Chepkwony Charity Kathambi – Hon’ble Member of Parliament, Republic of Kenya (Keynote Speaker)
- Mirik Gogri – Sustainability Investor, Spectrum Impact
- Anshoo Pandey – Director, NCMM, Ministry of Mines, Government of India
- Dr Amit Kapoor – Honorary Chairman, Institute for Competitiveness
- Grazielle Parenti – Executive Vice President – Chief Sustainability Officer, Vale
06:30 – 06:45 PM
Lotus 3
Energy Transition Recap
Evening Session Change Over
07:15 – 08:00 PM
Lotus 1, 2 & 3
Evening Session
08:00 PM
Lotus 1, 2 & 3
Climate with Art / Sports / Cinema / Space
speakers:
- Rakesh Sharma – ISRO
- Subhanshu Shukla – IAF & ISRO
Focused Room 1
10:00 – 07:30 PM
Meeting Room 204 (A&B)
Innovation Challenge – Final Jury Round Breakout-1 (Invite Only)
Focused Room 2
10:00 – 11:30 AM
Meeting Room 205 (A&B)
Climate Group: Delivering Accelerated Subnational Climate Action: States and Business in Partnership
speakers:
- Ms Sujata Saunik (IAS) – Former Chief Secretary, Government of Maharashtra
11:45 – 12:45 PM
Meeting Room 205 (A&B)
C40: Building the net-zero future: Decarbonising built environment and enhancing climate resilience
speakers:
- Ms Anjalli Ravi Kumar – Chief Sustainability Officer, Eternal
03:00 – 04:00 PM
Meeting Room 205 (A&B)
From Investment To Impact: Climate Capital To Drive Innovations (Hosted by Monitor Deloitte)
speakers:
- Andrea Culligan – Climate Agenda Lead – Deloitte Australia
- Ajeya Bandopadhyay – Head, Climate Finance – IFC
- Alipt Sharma – Partner – GEF Capital
- Sameer Shisodia – CEO – Rainmatter Foundation
- Samir Shah – Managing Partner – Peak Sustainability Ventures
- Shobana Chawla – Head, Sustainable Finance Origination- South Asia – Standard Chartered
- Sundeep Reddy Mallu – Co-founder and CTO – ResilienceAI
04:15 – 05:30 PM
Meeting Room 205 (A&B)
Corporate Action for State of Climate in India (Hosted by Monitor Deloitte)
speakers:
- Prashanth Nutula – Partner, Deloitte India
- Ankit Todi – Group Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra
- Anna Roy – Senior Advisor, NITI Aayog
- Rajiv Prakash – Advisor, Rainmatter Foundation
- Jitesh Shetty – Founder and CEO, Credibl
06:00 – 07:30 PM
Meeting Room 205 (A&B)
What more can Corporates Do? (Hosted by Monitor Deloitte)
speakers:
- Steven Goldbach – Principal, Sustainability Leader – Deloitte US
- Geoff Tuff – Principal, Sustainability Leader – Deloitte US
- Sudhanshu Vats – Managing Director – Pidilite Industries Ltd
- Arun Nanda – Trustee – Science-Based Targets Initiative
- Alok Verma – Head, Corporate Strategy and ESG – Ashok Leyland
- David Kennedy – CEO – Science-Based Targets Initiative
- Himal Tewari – Chief Human Resources Officer and Chief, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility – Tata Power
- Rinika Grover – Global Head, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility – Apollo Tyres
RMI India Foundation in collaboration with Lodha Foundation
9:25 AM – 10:25 AM
Meeting Suite 202
The Heat, Housing & Carbon Nexus: Thermally comfortable and Low carbon homes
RMI in collaboration with CEPT University
10:50 AM – 11:50 AM
Meeting Suite 206 (B)
Can Today’s Air Conditioners Keep Up with a Hotter, More Humid World?
RMI in collaboration with India Foundation
12:15 PM – 01:15 PM
Meeting Suite 203
How Circular Supply Chains Can Power India’s Energy Transition
LSE
10:50 AM – 11:50 AM
Meeting Suite 202
Policies for mitigating macro-climatic risks in India
University of Chicago
12:15 PM – 01:15 PM
Meeting Suite 202
Scaling Market-based regulation for Cleaner Air and Water
Aditya Birla
2:40PM – 3:40PM
Meeting Suite 202
Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Securing the Future of Indian Industry (Aditya Birla Group – CEEW – CII – WBCSD
4:05 -5:05 PM
Meeting Suite 202
Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Securing the Future of Indian Industry (Aditya Birla Group – CEEW – CII – WBCSD
NRDC
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Meeting Suite 401 (A)
Lessons from Indian companies on the Road to Net Zero
EDF
9:25 AM – 10:25 AM
Meeting Suite 203
Blue Foods as a Climate Solution – Practical Approaches to Building Coastal Resilience, Promoting Equity, and Nutrition
12:15 PM – 01:15 PM
Meeting Suite 206 (A)
Carbon Pricing as a Catalyst for India’s Energy Transition
WRI India
10:50 AM – 11:50 AM
Meeting Suite 206 (A)
How Cities Move: Using Data to Drive Climate-Resilient Transport
2:40 – 3:40PM
Meeting Suite 206 (A)
Unlocking Clean Energy for Emerging Demand from Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Sector: Pathways from policy intent to practice
speakers:
- Madhav Pai – CEO, WRI India
- Suman Chandra (IAS) – Director, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India
- Mirik Gogri – Sustainability Collaborator – Spectrum Impact
- Dhanashri Rane – Chief of Staff and Head – Growth & Strategic Initiatives, Ecofy
- Vignesh Nandakumar – Advisor, Energy Transition Investments
- Bharath Jairaj – Executive Director, Energy, WRI India
- Puneet Khandelwal – Program Head – Utilities & Finance, Energy, WRI India
4:05 PM – 5:05 PM
Meeting Suite 206 (A)
Financing Food Loss and Waste Reduction for Sustainable Food Systems
speakers:
- Priti Chaudhary – Regional Director (Western region), FSSAI
- Dr. B.R. Premi – Chief General Manager, RMSME, NABARD
- Jinesh Shah – Managing Partner, Omnivore
- Dr. Manjyot Kaur Ahluwalia – Regional Lead Asia, Global Methane Hub
- Roshan Shah – Vice President, Jain Farm Fresh Foods Limited (TBC)
- Dr. Ruchika Singh – Executive Program Director, Food, Land and Water, WRI India (Moderator)
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Meeting Suite 206 (A)
Cities, Naturally: A fireside chat and networking session on urban Nature-based solutions (by the India Forum for NbS)
speakers:
- Suresh Babu – Director WWF India
- Jaya Dhindaw – Executive Director, WRI India
- Dr. Soumya Swaminathan – Chairperson, MSSRF
- Dr. Umamaheshwaran Rajasekar – Consultant, CDRI
PwC
2:40- 3:40PM
Meeting Suite 206 (B)
Hydrogen Economy: Innovation-led Pathways for the Global South’s Net-Zero Transition
HT Parekh Foundation with HDFC Capital Advisors
4:05 -5:05 PM
Meeting Suite 206 (B)
Future Proofing the Urban Built Environment
CEEW
10:50 AM – 11:50 AM
Meeting Suite 401 (B)
Executive Roundtable on Contracts-for-Difference: Advancing Spot Market Liquidity and Cost-Effective Renewable Energy Integration in India.
WELL Labs
2:40 – 3:40PM
Meeting Suite 203
Masterclass on Rural Water Security for CSRs and Foundations
StepChange
4:05 -5:05 PM
Meeting Suite 201
Climate Collective & Stepchange Workshop: From Intuition to Evidence: Climate Action in Global South with En-Roads
GIZ
10:50 AM – 11:50 PM
Meeting Suite 203
Role of Climate Co-benefits Methodologies in Strengthening Climate Action in Maharashtra
Union Bank
12:15 PM – 01:15 PM
Meeting Suite 206 (B)
Union Bank Climate Dialogue
Dalberg
12:15 PM – 01:15 PM
Meeting Suite 201
Financing Blueprint for Cleantech Manufacturing in India
AVPN
3:40 – 4:40PM
Meeting Suite 401 (A)
Subnational Climate Investment Roundtable: Driving Final Investment Decisions in Clean Energy, Clean Technology, and Clean Industry
HUL
5:05- 6:05PM
Meeting Suite 401 (A)
Scaling Climate Resilient Urban Sanitation by Hindustan Unilever and Dalberg
Prayas (Energy Group)
6:30- 7:30 PM
Meeting Suite 201
Strategies For Thermal Power in India and the Global South
Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
4:05-5:05 PM
Meeting Suite 203
Financing Sub-National Green Growth
Focused Session
9:30 – 9:55 AM
Lotus 3
Innovation in Nature: Scaling Nature-based Solutions for People and Climate
speakers:
- Tom Brzostowski
9:55 – 10:35 AM
Lotus 3
Innovation for communities
speakers:
- Mr. Viral Thakker (Moderator)
- Ms. Rupali Mehra (Panelist)
- Ms. Nidhi Pant (Panelist)
- Dr. Ravi Mariwala (Panelist)
10:35 – 11:00 AM
Lotus 3
Reducing Disaster risk for the poor in tomorrow’s cities
speakers:
- Mark Pelling
11:00 – 12:00 PM
Lotus 3
MCW IC Awards and Closing
10:15 – 11:15 AM
Lotus 1
ASAR: From the Frontlines: Panchayats Leading India’s Climate Charge
speakers:
- Chandra Deo Ghansi – Sarpanch, Jharkhand
- Sachit KK – President, District Panchayat
- Sharda Gaydhane – Sarpanch
- Vinuta Gopal – CEO, Asar
- Arindam Banerjee – Policy & Development Advisory
- Suyanarayana Rao – Gram Panchayat Member
- Jayanti Naik – Woman Elected Representative
- Pushpa Khairawar – Community Leader
Environmental Defense Fund
9:25 – 10:25 AM
Meeting Suite 202
Triple-Win Dairy & Agriculture: Entrepreneurs Leading a New Climate Economy
10:50- 11:50 AM
Meeting Suite 202
Wildfire Management for a Hotter, Drier South Asia
Centre for Social and Economic Progress
10:50- 11:50 AM
Meeting Suite 203
Decarbonisation Trajectories 2.0: Making the transition inclusive, scalable and pragmatic
Note:
The sessions listed above may be revised. Certain Hub sessions will be closed-door, invite-only discussions.
Exhibition Arena
Arena is the Hub’s always-on space for discovery and participation. It will bring together solutions, innovation, and citizen voices through three interconnected experiences that unfold alongside the Sessions.
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The exhibition will bring together solutions aligned with MCW’s Focus Areas of Food Systems, Urban Resilience, and Energy Transition. It will feature solutions from the private sector, startups, grassroots organizations and academic institutions, reflecting the diversity and depth of the climate action ecosystem.
Organizations working on solutions aligned with MCW’s themes are invited to inquire about booking a stall space.
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Vartavaran is Mumbai Climate Week’s platform for real voices and expression. It invites students, citizens, professionals, community leaders, and representatives from civil society to creatively share their views on climate, sustainability, and the environment. Whether through a talk, poem, spoken word, storytelling, song, or another expressive format, Vartavaran celebrates diverse perspectives and lived experiences.
MCW Innovation Challenge
Hosted in partnership with the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the innovation challenge invites early-stage, growth-ready, and sector-focused innovators to showcase solutions across Food Systems, Urban Resilience, and Energy Transition. Complementing this, the Youth Green Innovation Track, hosted in partnership with Unicef and YuWaah, empowers young changemakers (16–24) to imagine and advance climate ideas that shape a resilient and future-ready world.
