Jessica Seddon on LinkedIn: Enough said! Applications open :) (2025)

My love of India 🇮🇳 started with looking into its electricity market design :) … pre- Electricity Act of 2003 🦑. So I am especially excited to be speaking at this event. 🌞

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Coming soon at Yale University, screening of Water Stories: "The Feast (Virundhu)"/"The Prediction (Kanippu)" - hosted by the Deitz Family Initiative on Environment & Global Affairs at Jackson School of Global Affairs Yale University, Yale Planetary Solutions, and South Asia Studies Council. When:Monday, September 30, 20246:15 PM-7:45 PMWhere: Henry R. Luce Hall 101 (Auditorium)34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511"The Feast (Virundhu)" and "The Prediction (Kanippu)" are the first two films in a three-part anthology of short fiction films highlight various aspects of humans’ relationship with water. They are set in and around Pulicat Lake, India’s second largest brackish water ecosystem on the borders of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and feature local actors and dialogue in Tamil (with subtitles). "The Feast" examines dilemmas around development, pollution, and ecology through the lens of a mother and daughter working to protect their way of life – and secure their futures. "The Prediction" highlights the value of integrating traditional and modern scientific ways of understanding climate variability. This will be the first time that The Prediction is screened in North America, and the second time for The Feast, which premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024 in International Competition and was awarded the Special Jury Award.The Director, Rishi Chandna, will be present to discuss the making of the films. Jessica Seddon, who served as Executive Producer, and Sunil Amrith, who served on the Steering Committee for the films, will contextualize the themes in historical and contemporary environmental governance.

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Great opportunity!

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Honored to have had the opportunity to work with Mark Symes and the #ARIA team on the governance framework for this programme and to serve as the acting chair for the Oversight Committee. #Decarbonization (and emissions reduction more broadly - don't forget the particles! #blackcarbon) is essential for mitigating climate change. But we (some humans more than others) may have backed ourselves into a corner in which it would be helpful to know more about additional options for avoiding catastrophic, irreversible changes in the environment around us. It behooves us to learn more about how "Active Cooling" (a.k.a. #solargeoengineering, #SolarRadiationModification) works (or doesn't work) in practice, what impacts it has, and how it might be governed. It also behooves us to learn very carefully, minimizing not only the direct risks of the research but also the longer term possibility that these approaches would be used too lightly, too hastily, or for particularistic purposes. Check out the governance principles and approach here: https://lnkd.in/gUCMVt9X The last principle is "Learn." So get in touch if you have thoughts on how we can do better to explore, carefully, recognizing the broader implications of knowledge about "actively cooling." And take a look at the program solicitation. Three things to note - 1. #SocialScience, #Humanities, #Law, #Ethics scholars: it's open to your proposals and concepts - both as stand-alone proposals, and as requests for "teaming" - ARIA's way of connecting up applicants to form interesting, creative , interdisciplinary consortia. 2. This solicitation is truly open to proposals from outside the UK. Please apply. Pass it on. Your questions, ideas, priorities are important. #international3. This call is approach-agnostic, to the extent that it can be given the legal framework and restriction to keep any experiments bounded, reversible, small-scale, and safe. But if you have #SolarRadiationModification research ideas that fit within those boundaries - submit a concept.

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“One of the most important ideas spotlighted at the conference was sufficiency i.e. avoiding the demand for materials and energy while delivering a decent living standard for all within planetary boundaries.”

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