Climate Policy Initiative

and as Joint Secretary Infrastructure in the Department of Economic Affairs.

After a tenure as Advisor, National Institute of Smart Government, Sharmila Chawli is currently Advisor, Climate Policy Initiative, India Chapter.

Sharmila Chawli, welcome to The Wire Talks.

Thank you for having me.

at a national level, who are the signatories to this thing, to say, well, what does this mean? What are we going to do? How do we actually give effect to this agreement we're about to sign? We recognize that we need new tools, we need new strategies, we need money, we need infrastructure.

How do we pull these together? So there are a couple of forums that have been curated to discuss, in this particular instance, infrastructure, climate, and finance, and how do these three things link together? This conversation was curated and hosted by an entity called Climate Policy Initiative, funded by a number of donors, including the government of the US, Germany, Netherlands, UK.

And they put together something called an Innovation Lab for Climate Finance.

And this Innovation Lab for Climate Finance was effectively a petri dish into which people could put ideas, And I ended up in this forum by happenchance.