1. Organization of
international Workshop/Conferences and Events
i. Organized an international workshop titled ‘Role of forest ecosystems in meeting SDGs in South Asia’ on May 9, 2019 in BITS Goa, India. The event was funded by 'Commission On Ecosystem Management', IUCN; National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD) and Government of Goa. Official Workshop webpage: https://www.bits-goa.ac.in/IUCN/index.html); Final Report available here: https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/uploads/Goa_Upload/IUCN_BITS_Goa_Workshop_Low_Res_Report.pdf
ii. Organized a side-even at World Conservation Congress 2020, Marseille, Sept, 2021 titled: Agro-forestry and its role in climate change mitigation and sustainable development for South Asia; Event Webpage: https://www.iucncongress2020.org/programme/official-programme/session-59460
2. INVITED TALKS
I. Invited to be a guest speaker in Climate Action Now workshop series at IIT Gandhinagar (17th Jan 2023): https://events.iitgn.ac.in/2020/CAN/about.php
II. Public Lecture titled“How India can expand forest and tree cover to meet its Sustainable Development (SDGs) and Climate Goals” on 22nd June 2022, Organized by the Pune Knowledge Cluster (PKC) of the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to Govt. of India. The public Lecture Recording is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-H9EhMo68
III. Panelist on the I-Connect event (Industry Connect events) to celebrate Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsava (AKAM) titled “Greenhouse gas emission inventory, control and its mitigation’ on Monday 18th July 2022. CSIR along with DST, DBT and MoES organized this event. The video of the panel discussion and the whole event is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Bohj_PXP4 ; https://www.facebook.com/i-Connect75-106939485356169/?ref=pages_you_manage
IV. Delivered a training lecture titled “Mapping of Climate Change Hotspots in Indian Forests” on 11th Feb, 2022, as part of the course “National Training Program on Audit of Forestry and Biodiversity issues with focus on use of recent techniques” hosted by International Centre for Environment Audit and Sustainable Development (iCED), which is established by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India (Training Schedule available here: http://iced.cag.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2122c18Final%20course%20schedule.pdf)
V. Delivered a lecture titled “State of Indian forests and challenges ahead” as part of the Webinar titled on ‘Forest Conservation and the Current Scenarios of Punjab’ on 06/07/2021 organized by The Science Club of Guru Nanak Dev University, on the occasion of Van Mahotsava (News item covering this event: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/amritsar/importance-of-flora-fauna- discussed-280996)
VI. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2020) “Environmental Policies Process in India” at BHU, Varanasi, India (Webinar) 23rd Dec, 2020
VII. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2020) “IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) Typologies and Principles of Classification: Assessing ecosystem risks for prioritising conservation in Mountain Ecosystems of S. Asia” Webinar 14 December, 2020-12-28 (International)
VIII. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2020) Climate Change in Goa, Public talk, by Govt. of Goa 29 Dec 2020
IX. R K Chaturvedi (2018) Data and Tools for Climate Resilience in the Forest sector, Workshop on Data and Tools for Climate, Resilience, IISc and Future Earth, Bangalore
X. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2018) Vulnerability of Indian forests to climate change, lead lecture at the National Conference on “Towards resilient ecosystems: Role of forestry research”, Central Academy for State Forest Service, Coimbatore, 8-9 May, 2018
XI. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2018) Coal reducton strategy in India, The 6th International Symposium for Future Earth in Asia, Kyoto, Japan, 16th Jan, 2018
XII. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) Can India achieve its Paris Agreement goals in the forest sector? 26 Sept, 2017, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA), IIT Bombay
XIII. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) Climate change vulnerability assessment in the context of North-east India, State Academy of Training, Takyel, Imphal, Manipur, Directorate of Environment (DoE), Government of Manipur, 28th May, 2017
XIV. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) India’s GHG inventory and mitigation actions in the forestry sector, Workshop on preparation of India’s Second Biennial Update Report to the UNFCCC, Ministry of Environment and Forests & Climate Change, Govt. of India, 12th October, 2017
XV. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) Modelling the impact of climate change on forest biodiversity and ecosystem Services, TWAS South Asia workshop on Climate Change and Biodiversity, University of Peradenya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 29 Oct, 2017
XVI. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) Climate Change and Indian Forests as part of workshop on “Climate Change: State of Science and Policy in India” at Choksi hall, Indian Institute of Science, Aug 11, 2017
XVII. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) Climate Change and Forests & Biodiversity of Meghalaya, at Meghalaya Basin Development Authority, Shillong, 26 September, 2016
XVIII. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) Modeling techniques for the evaluation of biodiversity and ecosystem services, 14 Feb, 2017, Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad
XIX. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, 08 Feb, 2017, National Law School University of India (NLSUI), Bengaluru
XX. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) Paris Agreement and the global goal of limiting warming below 2°C 22 February, 2017, XIII Agricultural Science Congress - Satellite Meeting on Paris Agreement, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK campus, Bengaluru
XXI. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2016) India’s GHG inventory in the LULUCF sector and possible application of FullCAM framework, at Department of Environment, Govt. of Australia, Canberra, Australia, 18 August, 2016
XXII. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2016) CMIP5 based climate change projections for India- its application for Impact assessment studies: challenges and opportunities, at Department of Hydrology and Disaster Management, Govt. of Myanmar, June, 2016
XXIII. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2015) Impact of Climate Change on the Forests of Madhya Pradesh, State Level Training Workshop on Mainstreaming Climate Change in Sectoral Planning of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal, 24 April 2015, Environmental Planning and Coordination Organization (EPCO), Madhya Pradesh
XXIV. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2014) CMIP5 based climate change projections for India, and its application for Impact assessment studies: challenges and opportunities, ATREE, Bangalore, June 2014
XXV. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2013) Emissions trajectories and Representative Concentration Pathways, BASIC experts’ meeting, by Govt. of India, Chennai, Feb, 2013 (Ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China - BASIC countries were present)
XXVI. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2013) Modelling the impact of climate change on forest ecosystems Mid-Career Training (MCT) programme for Indian Forest Service Officers (Phase IV) June, 2013 at IGNFA, Dehradun (lecture before about 250 mid career IFS officers at Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun)
3. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
i. Key note speaker at National Conference on “Sustainable Development: Addressing Climate
Change, Global Warming,and Carbon Footprints” Dept. of Economics, Govt. College
of Arts, Science & Commerce, Quepem-Goa
ii. Rajiv K Chaturvedi “Climate Change in the Himalayan region”, Himalaya International Conference, IISc, Bangalore (Oct, 2020)
iii. Strapsson A et al including R K Chaturvedi (2018) Modelling carbon mitigation pathways: An assessment of the global calculator, Conference: 6th International Symposium on Energy and Finance Issues (ISEFI-2018) At: IPAG Business School, Paris, France; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348554454_Modelling_Carbon_Mitigation_Pathways_An_ Assessment_of_the_Global_Calculator#fullTextFileContent
iv. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2018) Planning Climate Resilient Forest Ecosystems: A case-study from North-eastern India, 14th National Silviculture Conference on “Forest and Sustainability: Securing a Common Future” to be organized at Institute for Wood Science and Technology, Bengaluru during 3rd to 5th December, 2018 (Lead speaker at the conference)
v. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) Climate change and future of cities in India, Future of Cities: Opportunities and Challenges, 27 July 2017, Institute of Town Planners, India
vi. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) “Modelling the impact of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services” International Conference on "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Scenarios and Models” during 15th and 16th of February 2017 at Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad
vii. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2017) “A low carbon scenario for India, and its implications for India’s climate pledge and the global goal of limiting warming to safe levels”. international conference on ‘climate change: challenges and solutions’ on 23rd January 2017 at Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute, Bengaluru
viii. Woods J, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Alexandre Strapasson, James Millington, Steven Petersen (2016) Assessing the climate impacts of Chinese dietary choices using a telecoupled global food trade and local land use framework, Global Land Project 3rd Open Science Meeting, China National Convention Center, Beijing, Oct. 24-27, 2016 (http://csis.msu.edu/content/telecoupling-global-land-project)
ix. Ravindranath N.H, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, J. Sharma (2016) “Adapting to 1.5°C warming: an inherent vulnerability approach" to the conference 1.5°C degrees: meeting the challenges of the Paris Agreement. Organized by Oxford University, Met Office, UK and IIASA, September, 2016
x. Rajiv K Chaturvedi, et al. (2016) “What does a global temperate rise of 1.5°C/2°C/3°C/4°C mean for the Indian forest ecosystems?” Tata Institute of Social Studies (TISS) Climate Conference 2016” Mumbai, July 2016
xi. Rajiv K Chaturvedi, et al (2014) “Glacial Mass Balance Changes in the Karakoram and Himalaya based on CMIP5 Multi-Model Climate Projections”, Fourth National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, 2014
xii. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2013) Delivered Plenary Lecture at 'International Conference on Climate Change and Himalaya: Current Status and Future Perspective -2013’ organized by CSIR-NISCAIR, Vigyan Bhawan
xiii. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2013) “Estimating the uncertainty in climate impact projections for the Indian terrestrial ecosystem using CMIP5 climate models” IMPACTS WORLD 2013 - International Conference on Climate Change Effects, Potsdam, Germany - 2013
xiv. G Bala, D Narayanappa, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, K Caldeira, RR Nemani (2013) A Model-based Estimate of the Relative Importance of Climate warming, CO2-fertilization and Nitrogen Deposition to Global Terrestrial Carbon Uptake, AGU Fall Meeting (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013AGUFM.B53C0467B)
xv. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2012) How much carbon does Indian forests hold – ADGVM based analysis, Third National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, November, 2012
xvi. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2008) and Tiwari R ‘Impact of Climate Change on Indian Forests: A Short- and Medium-Term Assessment’ in ‘Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health: A Review of Science, Policies and Practices’ Umeå, Sweden,’. The international conference was jointly organized by FAO, IUFRO and SLU- August 2008
xvii. Madelene Ostwald, Matilda Palm, Indu K Murthy, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, N.H. Ravindranath and Göran Berndes (2007) "Environmental Constraints for Afforestation and Reforestation Activities in Different Argo-Ecological Zones of Southern India" in Proceedings the AGS Annual Meeting 2007 Barcelona, Spain the AGS, 2007