Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, the premier technical university of India, like most universities and colleges in India does not have a dedicated Climate Studies Center. As a part of the vulnerable world and one of its fastest developing nations, it is extremely crucial for Indian universities to facilitate inter- and multidisciplinary research in the broad domain of climate change. Campus Climate Coalition (CCC) aims to address this pertinent issue. Thus, this project aim is to build the capacity of Indian universities, starting with IIT, to incentivize, collectivize, and stimulate academic research in the domain of climate change studies across disciplines.

To this end, the Fellows will be conceptualizing and establishing a dedicated Climate Studies Center at the IIT Madras campus. The Fellows will work to build organizational structures as well as online and offline infrastructure to facilitate networking and the sharing of ideas and research within and between its various departments in the engineering, science, humanities, and business schools. They will conduct outreach and networking events, fundraisers, and a seminar; involving scholars, professors, industry and community leaders, international and national governmental and non-governmental organizations, under the aegis of the center. As part of the center's outreach, they will also try to engage with the 3000+ children in the 3 schools on campus to encourage these children to be interested in climate change and environmental studies.

We hope that going forward, guest scholars of such events would then strive to emulate these models in their respective institutions. They would then have our support and guidance.