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.
Posted February 8, 2012 by Anjali Jaiswal in Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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→
Posted August 2, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Solving Global Warming
A product of intensified strategic dialogues, ground-breaking U.S. and India collaboration on the industry and research institution fronts, is now well underway. Earlier this month, Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW), and NRDC...continued→
Posted July 15, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Solving Global Warming
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to India later this month for the strategic dialogue, she’s likely to get a friendlier reception than she did almost two years ago when she first met with then Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. ...continued→
Posted July 1, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming
Even as the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on countries to agree at next year’s Earth Summit to raise the share of renewables to 30 percent of the energy mix by 2030, India seems to be going strong...continued→
Posted April 30, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
It’s getting hotter as summer rolls around, and because of climate change summers are expected to get hotter each year. In some places, like Ahmedabad, India, as temperatures spike to 115° F (46°C), hospital emergency rooms are inundated with an...continued→
Posted March 27, 2011 by Anjali Jaiswal in Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
On Monday, NRDC health scientist Dr. Kim Knowlton and I are leading a climate change workshop focused on heat stress in Ahmedabad, India – which is already experiencing 39°C (103°F) temperatures this month. It’s only March and doctors are warning...continued→
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