3/ Read the piece here: heatmap.news/climate-tech...

2/ I spoke w Katie Brigham at the excellent @heatmap.news on battery storage in 🇮🇳 and how a confluence of factors - rise in renewables, need for structural transformations in the grid system, and India's dependence on 🇨🇳 for li-ion batteries - necessitates investments in new energy storage solutions.

Thank you for sharing the piece!

3/ Operationalising health in NDCs: "A more holistic integration can be possible by including elements of mitigation, loss & damage, financing, monitoring & implementation, & governance."

Highly recommend subscribing to climate+health if you work on #climate #health or #development

2/ Health in NDCs: "Poorer & more climate-vulnerable countries tend to have a society-centric approach to developing NDCs, integrating health while advocating for tech transfer, sustainable dev & climate finance."

🔗http://bit.ly/4nylKRV

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- Chinese investments incl 60 projects exceeding $1 billion
- The database catalogues 461 green tech mfg projects announced from 2011 to 2025 (first half) + consists of low carbon tech such as batteries, electric buses, NEVs, solar, wind & more

bit.ly/3Ih0pxc

2/ Key points:
- Chinese firms have pledged at least $227 billion across green mfg projects
- Investments surged post 2022, w 387 projects (80% of the total) launched since then
- ASEAN hosts the most projects + in 2024, the MENA region's share jumped to 20% of all new deals

12/ 2 articles on the thaw (?) in 🇮🇳🇺🇸 ties point to extensive outreach. Suhasini Haidar & TCA Sharad Raghavan report on the Ind Amb to USA's work & high level outreach to Sec. Rubio + K. P. Nayar mentions a conv bw Pres Trump a private Indian citizen (???).

5/ Latest in Indialog: key voices on 🇮🇳🇨🇳 ties as PM Modi visits China for the first time in 7 years as India's ties with 🇺🇸 are strained: indialog.substack.com/p/views-onfr...

11/ 2 diff outlets cite "Indian diplomatic experts" stating that Pres. Trump attempted to call PM Modi multiple times in search of a compromise & that PM Modi has "refused to take the calls."

x.com/thorstenbenn... & asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/co...

Footnote 8 gives a plug for @shreyas-shende.bsky.social and Rudra Chaudhuri's chapter, “The Research and Analysis Wing” in Institutional Roots of India’s Security Policy edited by Milan Vaishnav. For #India scholars, definitely give this collection a look.

academic.oup.com/book/56133/c...

10/ Resharing my interview with @dsmarkey.bsky.social & @ethrelkeld.bsky.social. We covered a lot of ground on the past & possible futures of the India-US rln and it is imp to underline a key point from the conv: Indian officials should expect a lot more uncertainty.

🔗 bsky.app/profile/shre...

4/ Naushad Forbes on the importance of funding firms: "The right R&D pipeline in firms will act as a pull on the public research system like no other. It is inadequate investment in innovation and R&D by Indian industry that is the single factor hindering our national innovation system."

4/ Former FS & China scholar Shyam Saran: "In discussions relating to econ relations, one Chinese interlocutor said that India should realise that "China can do without India, but India could not do without China," pointing to its inability to do without Chinese intermediate & components."

3/ How are Indian institutions placed? The top ranking org is the Indian Institute of Science (a +100 years old public institute that was initially set up by Jamsetji Tata) at #205. Of the top 25 Indian institutes in this list, only two are private firms -- the rest are all state institutions:

2/ One of the most striking things about going through this data is the rise of Chinese (& Asian) orgs. Contrast the top 10 'Research Leading' institutes list from 2016 and 2025:

In 2016, there was only one 🇨🇳 institute in the top 10. By 2025, this number had jumped to eight out of 10.