Climate Asia will host its 4th Annual Conference, focusing on elevating local leadership in climate conversations on April 22, 2025, in New Delhi, from 10 AM to 4 PM. Titled Mitti Ki Baatein (Stories from the Ground), this year’s gathering aims to spotlight community-driven adaptation efforts, with a strong focus on grassroots civil society organisations (CSOs) and individuals on the frontlines of climate change.
The theme responds to a pressing gap in global climate discourse: the underrepresentation of communities that live with the consequences of climate change every day.
Mitti Ki Baatein seeks to bridge this disconnect by creating a platform for local voices—especially those of women, Indigenous leaders, and grassroots workers—to engage directly with funders, nonprofits, and policy influencers. The conference aligns with the priorities of COP30 and India’s own National Adaptation Plan, which underscore the importance of locally led solutions in building community resilience.
The event will feature a diverse agenda designed to elevate stories of lived experience and community-led innovation.
Key sessions include Stories from the Ground, Roots of Resilience, a fireside chat titled Mitti Se Niti Tak, a Gallery Walk featuring visual narratives of impact, and a panel on Unequal Impacts, Unequal Risks focusing on gendered dimensions of the climate crisis. The day will culminate in an Action Lab session to co-create actionable, soil-up solutions.
“Mitti ki Baatein is an invitation to re-centre development discourse around the margins we often ignore, our soil, our smallholders, and our indigenous knowledge systems. In the midst of climate disruption and institutional fatigue, it urges us to listen to the lived wisdom of those closest to the land. The future of sustainability will not be engineered top-down; it will be cultivated from the ground up.” Says Satyam Vyas, founder, Climate Asia.
Held annually since 2022, Climate Asia’s conferences have become a crucial space for advancing Asia’s climate resilience agenda. The inaugural event in 2022 established critical pillars for ecosystem development, including green jobs pipelines, grassroots innovation, and climate financing. In 2023, the dialogue evolved to tackle intersectional challenges, like gender-sensitive resilience and climate-health linkages, while pushing forward philanthropic strategy.
Registration for the event is now open via climateasiaevents.org.
Attendees can expect a day of powerful storytelling, deep listening, and collaborative exploration aimed at reimagining Earth Day as a local moment of connection and collective action.
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