Published Works
The Economic Times
Innovation Civilization Podcast with Mr. Faisal Ali Rashid, Senior Director, Dubai Supreme Council of Energy
How Dubai aims to implement Net Zero – Lessons for the World
Co-hosted an episode on Empasco’s Innovation Civilization Podcast featuring Mr. Faisal Ali Rashid, Senior Director at the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy. We explored how Dubai leverages financial mechanisms to drive sustainability initiatives—integrating incentives to support the Demand Side Management Strategy and its market impact. We also discussed the pivotal role of youth in the transition to net zero, and how the Advancing Net Zero team engages and empowers them to contribute effectively to Dubai’s ambitious sustainability goals.
Empasco’s Innovation Civilization Podcast delves into sustainability, innovation, deep tech, and political economy, engaging a global audience of millennials and the new generation. With around a quarter of a million listens, past guests include former Prime Ministers, Nobel Prize Winners, Europe’s top venture capitalists, Tech CEOs, best-selling authors, and leaders of world institutions.
Destination India 2024 | Check out time | Why sustainability in hospitality spells an existential crisis?
The article published in DI Conversations, delves into the crucial question: “Is the future of hospitality adequately Sustainable, Responsible and Profitable?” This article explores the urgent need for global hotel chains to embrace sustainability across their value chains and also looks at key recommendations that aid this transformation to a more responsible business. Explore tools (such as the ESG strategy planning framework, pathway of integration and overarching management action map) that have been developed through my past research on the link below.
Haas School of Business EGAL

Elsevier: Science of the Total Environment Journal
Housing as a critical determinant of heat vulnerability and health
Municipalities use Heat Vulnerability Indices (HVIs) to quantify and map relative distribution of risks to human health in the event of a heatwave. These maps ostensibly allow public agencies to identify the highest-risk neighborhoods, and to concentrate emergency planning efforts and resources accordingly (e.g., to establish the locations of cooling centers). The method of constructing an HVI varies by municipality, but common inputs include demographic variables such as age and income – and to some extent, metrics such as land cover. However, taking demographic data as a proxy for heat vulnerability may provide an incomplete or inaccurate assessment of risk. A critical limitation in HVIs may be a lack of focus on housing characteristics and how they mediate indoor heat exposure. To provide an objective assessment of this limitation, we first reviewed HVIs in the literature and those published or commissioned by municipalities. We subsequently verified that most of these HVIs excluded housing factors. Next, to scope the potential consequences, we used physics-based simulations of housing prototypes (46,000 housing permutations per city) to estimate the variation in indoor heat exposure within high-vulnerability neighborhoods in Boston and Phoenix. The results show that by excluding building-level determinants of exposure, HVIs fail to capture important components of heat vulnerability. Moreover, we demonstrate how these maps currently overlook important nuances regarding the impact of building age and air conditioning functionality. Finally, we discuss the challenges of implementing housing stock characteristics in HVIs and propose methods for overcoming these challenges.
Smart Farmer Africa 2023: Fighting climate change through structures: An Agroecology based framework
Perennial Environmental Journal of Berkeley
Agro Ecology Adaption Based Framework to Empower the Ruralbased Farmers for Climate Change: Improving Kenya
Climate change has created rifts in the formal ways of farming in Kenya. The different methods used have less focus on the development of land sustainability and biodiversity. The recent pushtowards infrastructural development has threatened the farmed lands. The Published paper proposes a framework consists of six crucial actions that can be adhered to and carried out in the form of a project. It would consist of the creation of model Agroecology farms, formal training of trainers (TOTs) programs, development of farmer outreach programs, design of biodiversity action plans, choice of community crop insurance scheme and project monitoring/evaluation.CNN IBN: Making Stronger a India
Top 5 Indian Changemakers: Independence Day coverage for Anemia Free Nation Social Campaign on the diagnosing symptoms and testing of 900 people, 2016