TERI organized a closed door Experts’ Roundtable to discuss a Discussion Paper on Gender-Just transition that had been drafted by the team. The Discussion Paper is titled ‘Establishing Women as Critical Stakeholders’ in India’s Just Energy Transition: Evidences from Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh’ and aims to highlight the importance of including women as an important stakeholder in the just transition discourse. The paper brings out the gendered nature of vulnerabilities that are present in the coal geographies of India and offers recommendations to make the energy transition process more gender-inclusive. The roundtable began with a presentation from TERI’s side taking the audience through the discussion paper and was followed by a detailed dialogue on the issue. The experts reviewed the paper and offered insightful ways in which the paper could be strengthened further.

The experts included –

• Dr. Smriti Das, Associate Professor, XLRI Jhajjar
• Dr. Suravee Nayak, Associate Fellow, Sustainable Futures Collaborative
• Roli Srivastava, Founder The Migration Story
• Dr. Upasona Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneshwar

The event also saw participation from various other research organizations, academicians, students etc. who also shared their thoughts and made the discussion an enriching one. We were heartened to see everyone’s interest in our work and are deeply gained by their invaluable inputs.