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Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco
Anjali I. Jaiswal is a senior attorney in the San Francisco office and works on the litigation team and India initiative. Her work focuses on litigation to protect the environment and NRDC’s new India initiative on increasing U.S. and India cooperation on climate change and energy. Prior to joining the San Francisco office, Anjali worked in NRDC’s Los Angeles Urban Program. In connection with her work at NRDC, Anjali was a fellow in the Fulbright Indo-American Environmental Leadership Program in 2005 based in New Delhi, India. Prior to joining NRDC, she clerked for U.S. Magistrate Louisa S. Porter in the Southern District of California. She is a graduate of the University of California’s Hastings College of Law.
Recent Posts
Posted May 16, 2012 by Anjali Jaiswal in Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
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- Ahmedabad, climateadaptation, climatechange, climatehealth, emory, heat, heat-health, india
Guest Blog by Kathy Tran, Master of Public Health, Global Environmental Health, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health Our innovative heat adaptation project in Ahmedabad, the largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat, gained important momentum last week. ...continued→
Posted May 10, 2012 by Anjali Jaiswal
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- cleanenergy, india, indiaenvironment, indiarenewables, indiasolar, solar, solarmission
Guest Blog by Dr. Arunabha Ghosh, CEO of Council on Energy, Environment, and Water In New Delhi, we recently launched our latest report, an evaluation of Phase 1 of India’s National Solar Mission (NSM). Prepared in collaboration with the Natural...continued→
Posted April 25, 2012 by Anjali Jaiswal in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming
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- cleanenergy, climatechange, energysummit, globalwarming, India, nationalsolarmission, solar, solarmission, usinda, yateteri
With nations around the world vying for clean energy leadership, India has taken a bold step toward becoming a leader in solar development. In only two years under India’s ambitious national solar policies, prices for solar energy in India have...continued→
Posted March 29, 2012 by Anjali Jaiswal in Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
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- Ahmedabad, climate, climateadaptation, climatechange, climatehealth, Gujarat, heat, heat-health, india
In Ahmedabad this past week, we saw temperatures rises to 104oF (40oC) – and it’s only March. As the extreme heat season looms ahead, predicted temperature averages far exceed 100oF (38oC) in western India. Continuing work to address Ahmedabad’s climate...continued→
Posted March 29, 2012 by Anjali Jaiswal in Solving Global Warming
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- buildings, climatechange, ecbc, energyefficiency, globalwarming, india, indiaenvironment
In New Delhi, Dr. Ajay Mathur, Director General of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, released our interim report, Constructing Change: Accelerating Energy Efficiency in India’s Buildings Market earlier this month. At the national workshop releasing our report, I was particularly...continued→
Posted February 8, 2012 by Anjali Jaiswal in Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment
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- Ahmedabad, climatechange, Gujarat, health, heat, heat-health, heatstress, heatvulnerability, IIPH, India, IndiaInitiative, IndianInistuteofPublicHealthGandhinagar, PHFI, PublicHealthFoundationofIndia, weathergauge
While the Coliseum in Rome is covered with snow, residents in Ahmedabad’s city center will be experiencing 90° Fahrenheit (32° Celsius) temperatures this weekend. I am currently in Ahmedabad, meeting with our partners from the Public Health Foundation of India...continued→
Posted February 7, 2012 by Anjali Jaiswal in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
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- airconditioners, BEE, bureauofenergyefficiency, energyefficiency, energyefficiencyguidelines, energyefficiencystandards, hyderabad, india, indiainitiative
It may be blizzarding in Europe but here in India, including Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, cars, office buildings, and hotels are blasting their air conditioners. Last week, NRDC’s president, Frances Beinecke, Radhika Khosla and I toured the building boom in High...continued→
Posted February 6, 2012 by Anjali Jaiswal in Environmental Justice, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
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- cleanenergy, climatechange, delhisustainabledevelopmentsummit, dsds, earthsummit, india, racetorio, rio+20
The countdown to the June 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development picked up speed last week at the annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS). The DSDS, whose timely theme was “Protecting the Global Commons: 20 years post Rio,”...continued→
Posted December 12, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
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- climatechange, globalwarming, India, intersolar, nationalsolarmission, renewableenergy, solar
With impressively low bids, as low as Rs. 7.49 /kilowatthour (kWh), or about 15 US cents/kWh, in India’s recent reverse-auction under its Solar Mission Reverse, I’m in India with my colleagues Vignesh Gowrishankar and Sameer Kwatra this week at to...continued→
Posted November 15, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
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- climate, climateadaptation, climatechange, climatehealth, globalwarming, gujarat, health, heatstress, india
Our partners in India tell me that it’s an unusually warm November, requiring fans and air-conditioning during the day. While these warm winter temperatures are uncomfortable, the scorching summer temperatures – starting as early as March – pose life-threatening risks...continued→
Posted October 26, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
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- climate, climatechange, climatehealth, globalwarming, gujarat, health, heatstree, india
As the second peak heat season hits in India this month, I had the opportunity to meet with local groups and government officials to advance plans to install much-needed weather gauges and develop an early warning system to protect local...continued→
Posted October 14, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
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- cleanenergy, energyefficiency, India, PACE-D, PACE-R, solar, US-indiacooperation
Clean energy experts and institutions in India are buzzing with enthusiasm about continuing collaboration on energy efficiency, solar energy, and biofuels as critical components of the bilateral clean energy program – PACE (Partnership to Advance Clean Energy). As PACE-R (the...continued→
Posted October 14, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
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- climate, climatechange, globalwarming, india, solar, solarguidelines, solarmission
For the past few weeks, along with our partner the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), I met with key solar energy industry leaders in India. Following the recently released second batch of the first phase of the solar...continued→
Posted August 17, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
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- climatechange, india, indiaenvironment, indiasolar, mitigation, solarmission
As India celebrates its 65th Independence Day this week, its dynamic solar mission continues to make progress. India’s solar mission recently crossed its first major milestone as it aims to 20 GW of installed grid-connected solar capacity by 2022. No...continued→
Posted August 17, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
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- ahmedabad, climateadaptation, climatechange, climatehealth, gujarat, heat, heatwaves, india
NRDC's new tool, “Climate Change Threatens Health” shows local data and maps detailing extreme weather patterns throughout the United States and describes climate – health preparedness strategies to protect local communities. NRDC is also continuing our work in India to...continued→
