Rethinking Climate Action As A 360 Approach
Despite global urgency, climate action has faltered due to slow, fragmented, and under-aggressive approaches to program design and implementation. With limited time left for mitigation, the focus must shift toward scalable adaptation and equitable transition strategies. In this critical conversation, leading thinkers and practitioners examine where we’ve gone wrong and how past failures can shape more resilient, inclusive climate responses for the future.
Anshu Gupta, Founder of Goonj, highlights the repeated failures in disaster risk prevention, drawing from grassroots experiences across India. This session unpacks the structural gaps in climate initiatives – from flawed assumptions to poor implementation and asks what it truly means to center people, justice, and context in climate solutions. The speakers explore how disaster preparedness must be reframed as a justice issue, shifting the lens from reactive responses to anticipatory frameworks rooted in community knowledge and socio-economic equity. They also examine why integrated, people-centered approaches are vital if adaptation and just transitions are to have any meaningful impact.
