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Arindam Roy

Arindam Roy is a post-doctoral scientist in Laboratory of atmospheric processes and their impacts; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. I have worked with 12000+ climate-vulnerable families in India, Bangladesh, and Bhutan on alternative and climate-adaptive livelihood. I also run the first climate communication platform in Bengali, a language spoken by 250 million people.

From ‘hippies’ to “How dare you!” and beyond..

September 10, 2021
From ‘hippies’ to “How dare you!” and beyond..
Credit: Arindam Roy

In 1971 a group of environmental activists set sail from Canada to protest nuclear testing. With this journey the organization Greenpeace was born. 50 years old this year, Greenpeace and other organizations like it have seen environmental concerns move from the fringe to the mainstream, and eventually evolve into climate change activism. In 2009, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in ...[Read More]