Living With Climate Change: A conversation with Marcus Moench

Marcus Moench, founder of The Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-International, in conversation with Jaipur Bytes host Lakshya Datta. In this podcast-exclusive conversation, Marcus tells Lakshya about the connection between literature and science that he found in India, why he was drawn to work on social and environmental issues, how JLF gives scientists and activists a platform to talk about universal issues like water scarcity and climate change, and what role he thinks the media plays in communicating the narrative relating to climate change (such as the Amazon Rainforest fires recently).
Marcus is the founder of ISET-International and has worked extensively on water, climate and urbanisation particularly in Asia. With over three decades experience, his approach combines science with a compassionately humourous eye on the drivers of social change and human behavior. Using art as well as more traditional forms of publication, his work explores the mosaic of solutions to emerging environmental and other challenges. He is particularly well known for his pioneering work on India’s groundwater and interactions between complex social and environmental systems.