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Healthy Climate Initiative

Restoring the climate is difficult, but we choose to do it because it is the greatest challenge of our time and involves humanity's survival. Our vision at HCI is to regenerate a healthy climate and make it safer for future generations. As part of our mission, we strive to preserve the cryosphere and remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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  • We Believe

    We choose to restore climate, not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that is the most important challenge of our time, because that entails the survival of humanity, and we have no other choice but to accept that challenge and win – Adapted from John F. Kennedy’s moonshot quote.

  • Our Vision

    Our Vision is to regenerate healthy climate and make it safer for our future generations.

  • Our Mission

    Our Mission is to preserve the cryosphere and remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

  • Awareness Campaign

    Raising awareness and engaging people about climate regeneration.

  • Rewilding

    Agroforestry on 20,000 hectares of land in India and Bangladesh.

  • Energy-Efficient Cookstoves

    Preserving glaciers by promoting the adoption of energy-efficient cookstoves.

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  • Marine Afforestation

    Restoring marine ecosystems through kelp and seaweed farming.

  • Preservation of Himalayan Glaciers

    Reducing glacier melting with the enhancement of albedo.

Initiatives

Accelerating Climate Actions

As climate change becomes an inevitable reality, HCI focuses on working with local communities, governments, and other organizations to offset carbon emissions. By combining global outreach with expertise, we can raise our collective voice for action.

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9,000,000,000,000 - Nine trillion tons.

That's how much ice Earth's glaciers lost in just 55 years from 1961 to 2016.

Leadership Team

DR. SOUMITRA DAS

Chair and Founder, USA

As an avid advocate for climate restoration, he worked in Fortune 500 companies in different capacities and chaired several working groups in 3GPP2 — an international industry consortium with over 75 companies that developed global standards for wireless telecommunications.

DR. BRIAN VON HERZEN

Vice Chair ,USA

Executive Director at the Climate Foundation and a Hertz and Edmund Hillary Fellow. He directs technical projects worldwide that can transform the way we connect to Marine environments.

MS. CAROLINA CARVALHO

Board Member, USA

Lead ecologist and data scientist at African Data Technologies. Carvalho managed the Environmental Program and is a certified permaculture designer at Kumano Shindo GIA.

DR. ARUNIMA GHOSH

Secretary, USA

Managing Director and Head of US Clinical Network, at Indivumed. Dr. Ghosh is a board-certified Pathologist with a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Cleveland State University.

MR. RAJIB RAYCHAUDHURY

DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY, USA

President of DelVal Flow Controls. Mr. Raychaudhury was the Business Head of Emerson’s Fisher Isolation & Ball Valve BUs. Between 2007 and 2015 he headed Emerson’s Valves Business Operations in Italy and India.

MR. MARK NADEL

LEGAL ADVISOR, USA

An attorney/advisor at the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Nadel is a treasurer and on the board of challengingracism.org a 501(c)(3) organization and on the board of newstoryleadership.org

MR. TOBY CHAUDHURI

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, USA

Co-founder and the Chief Strategy Officer of SocialxDesign. Formerly, he was a Vice President of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and Strategic Communications Consultant for The White House.

MR. SHREYANSH BUDHIA

DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INDIA OPERATION, USA

An Associate at TechnoServe, an Advisor at the George Washington University School of Business, an advisor at the Richmond University’s Customer Experience Certificate Program, Mr. Budhia is also the founder of Nature People Network.

MR. RITURAJ PHUKAN

DIRECTOR OF NORTHEASTERN INDIA OPERATION, USA

An environmental writer, adventurer & naturalist based out of Assam. He is the Founder of the Indigenous People’s Climate Justice Forum and also serves as the Vice-President of the US-based Grassroots Coalition for Environmental and Economic Justice.

MR. SAUPARNA SARKAR

DIRECTOR OF IT, USA

A senior technology executive with more than twenty five years of experience in delivering business solutions in multiple industries. A leader in managing large engineering teams in both enterprise technology and consulting organizations.

MR. CHANDAN KUMAR BHATTACHARYA

VICE PRESIDENT, India

A veteran soldier. Currently, Mr. Bhattacharya works as a program manager in Ananda Bazar Patrika, the largest print media house in eastern India. He also served in the Indian Air Force for 20 years.