Aatmika Nair is a Co-Director and Researcher at the Association for Socially Applicable Research (ASAR). Her focus areas are climate change, violence in healthcare, human resources for health, and infectious diseases.
India stands at a pivotal crossroads—emerging as a global leader in renewable energy and climate commitments while simultaneously expanding coal-based infrastructure. But to protect its people against extreme heat and secure sustainable growth, India must resolve this contradiction by placing heat mitigation and climate action at the heart of its development strategy.
