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Celebrating 10 Years of Asar
Asar Social Impact Advisors is a startup in the environment and social justice impact space with a commitment to building climate resilience and ambitious climate action. We identify challenges and opportunities, research them, verify ground truths, and understand local contexts, in order to build innovative strategies that are rooted in reality. Asar convenes multi-stakeholder conversations and helps build relationships between various key actors to be able to sustain collaborations essential to deliver real-world impact.
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10 years of building lasting networks
10 years of climate action
10 years of supporting local communities
10 years of fostering collaborations
10 years of building lasting networks
10 years of climate action
10 years of supporting local communities
10 years of fostering collaborations
10 years of building lasting networks
10 years of climate action
10 years of supporting local communities
10 years of fostering collaborations
10 years of building lasting networks
10 years of climate action
10 years of supporting local communities
10 years of fostering collaborations
Spotlight
Sustainable Mobility
Event
Double The Bus: A National Webinar on Public Transit and Urban Mobility
India’s bus commuters keep cities moving, yet they remain among the most underserved in the urban transport conversation. The Double…
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Commons Sensing: Ep 01 – Grounding Commons Through Practice | Jagdeesh Rao Puppala & Huda Jaffer
Sustainable Mobility
Tamil Nadu
Blog
Everyday Mobility in Tamil Nadu: More Than Just Transport
Somewhere between home and work, the walk to a bus stop, crossing a street, a footpath that narrows or disappears…
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Air Quality
Blog
Rising Heat, Shared Responsibility: A Curation of Resources on Extreme Heat
As India faces rising temperatures and more frequent heatwaves, the country’s battle with extreme heat has become one of its…
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State Climate Action
Event
Spotlight on Women and Climate: Talk and Photo Exhibition in Chennai
On March 8, marking International Women’s Day, Asar and Poovulagin Nanbargal hosted a talk on the economic impact of climate…
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Air Quality
Event
Paryavaran Utsav 2024 Concludes with Celebration and Impact
On September 3, Dhanbad Nagar Nigam, in collaboration with Asar, concluded the 90-day Paryavaran Utsav with a grand closing ceremony…
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Success Stories
Asar’s work comes alive through the people and places we engage with. Discover how communities, partners, and changemakers are co-creating solutions that matter, and why these moments of change inspire our continued commitment to climate resilience.
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Gender & Climate
Gender and Climate Learning Series
Asar, in partnership with the Community for Gender Equality and Climate Justice, launched the Gender and Climate Learning Series in…
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State Climate Action
Kerala
Strengthening Kerala’s Energy Security Through Community Ownership: Exploring the potential of Community-owned Battery Energy Storage Systems
Strengthening Kerala’s Energy Security through Community Ownership explores the potential of Community-owned Battery Energy Storage Systems (C-BESS) as a decentralised…
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Energy Transition
West Bengal
Energy Assessment of MSME Micro-Clusters in West Bengal
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are integral to West Bengal’s industrial economy, contributing substantially to employment, exports, and local…
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State Climate Action
Kerala
Pathways of Transition: Climate Resilience and Energy Efficiency in Agriculture (CREEA) – Learnings from District-Level Consultative Interdepartmental Workshops, Kerala
This report captures key insights and outcomes from the district-level CREEA workshops held across Kerala between 25th July 2023 and…
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Gender & Climate
Karnataka
Maharashtra
Odisha
Rooted in Power – Women’s Grassroots Leadership and Climate Action in India
Climate change exacerbates existing gender inequities, with women from vulnerable and marginalized groups facing a harsher reality of climate-induced challenges.…
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Climate & Education
Karnataka
Driving Climate Action Through Climate Education For Building Resilience: A Report Of ClimatEd Summit, 2025
The ClimatEd Summit: Envisioning new pathways for education, was a convening focusing on bringing together educators, practitioners, communicators, and policymakers…
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Energy Transition
Powering Ahead – An Assessment Of The Socio-economic And Environmental Impacts Of Large-scale Renewable Energy Projects and An Examination Of The Existing Regulatory Context
Powering Ahead critically examines the socio-economic and environmental impacts of large-scale renewable energy (RE) projects in India, with a particular…
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10 years of building lasting networks
10 years of climate action
10 years of supporting local communities
10 years of fostering collaborations
10 years of building lasting networks
10 years of climate action
10 years of supporting local communities
10 years of fostering collaborations
10 years of building lasting networks
10 years of climate action
10 years of supporting local communities
10 years of fostering collaborations
10 years of building lasting networks
10 years of climate action
10 years of supporting local communities
10 years of fostering collaborations
Asar’s Geography of Operations
At Asar, we believe in the power of connection. Our work spans across geographies and domains — bringing together communities, governments, researchers, civil society organizations, and industries. This interactive network map showcases our growing ecosystem: who we work with, where we work, and the impact we co-create.
Asar In Numbers
10+
States we’re already active in
15
States we aim to be active in by 2030
8
Climate-linked domains we work across (Energy, Mobility, Commons, Agriculture, Industrial Transitions, Air Quality, Gender, Education)
7
Regional languages (beyond English) powering our climate communications
100+
Partners engaged across states and domains
10+
MoUs signed with state governments u0026 departments in the last 3 years