Sustainability

Podcast | Asian voices at COP27

December 20, 2022

Asia

Podcast | Asian voices at COP27

December 20, 2022

Asia
Harsheen Sethi

Senior Analyst, Social Development, Trade & Geopolitics, Economist Impact

Harsheen Sethi is a Senior Analyst with Economist Impact’s Policy and Insights team. She is a specialist on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), human rights, countering conflict and violence, foreign policy, and new globalisation. She works on cross-country policy research, strategy, and advocacy projects aimed at creating impact.

Notable projects include Out of the Shadows Index measuring child sexual violence regulations; Building disaster resilience: A study of disaster events and financial lending streams; NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index; and The Procurement Imperative.

Sethi holds a Master’s in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh, where she served as a Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies Fellow, leading the working group on critical infrastructure vulnerabilities in cyberspace and contributing to research on countering violent extremism (CVE) in the US. She also holds a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication from Amity University Noida, India, where she specialised in development communication.

Less than a month after COP27 took place in Egypt in November, Asian countries remain at a critical juncture in their climate journeys. Despite tabling some historic agreements this year, a lot is left to be negotiated in the coming year.

In this episode, hosts Harsheen Sethi, Aayushi Idda Sharma, and Ankita from Policy & Insights at Economist Impact, reflect on the key themes and some missed opportunities of this year’s climate conference and take a closer look at major polluting economies from Asia and their role in these discussions.

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