At 15:00 pm on June 24, 2019, Professor Darshini Mahadevia was invited to visit and gave an academic report about building energy consumption and climate change in India. This report was presided over by Professor Qiaomei Liang. The teachers and students of the center participated in the report.
　　Darshini Mahadevia, is Visiting Professor at the School of Arts and Sciences, Social Science Division, and has over 25 years of experience in teaching and researching in urban studies, human and gender development, poverty and inequality and climate change. Darshini Mahadevia has done PhD from Centre for Studies in Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is member of the Editorial Board member of several journals and has been a visiting fellow at University of California, Los Angeles, McGill University, Montreal and Tsinghua University, Beijing. She has been the Dean, Faculty of Planning, at CEPT University from December 2012 to April 2016. She also headed the Centre for Urban Equity (CUE), a Centre she had set up at the CEPT University till recently.  She has more than 100 publications as books, chapter in books and journal articles. She has managed more than 40 research projects.

　　In today's report, Prof. Darshini Mahadevia was focused on India housing energy consumptions and its effects on climate and 1.5℃ target. They hold the view that the long-term urban housing strategy to address the impact of indoor temperature particularly for low-income households and residents of informal housing require conscious and deliberate efforts towards heat proofing existing informal housing are required. One of the option, which is being pursued currently is transiting informal housing dwellers to formal housing. But, another one for immediate consideration is renewal of current informal housing due to limited coverage possibility of the first option. Solution to housing and heat is important also for India because currently around 40% of the population is urban and high rate of urbanization is expected in the coming decades when temperatures are also set to rise in India. After the report, Professor Darshini Mahadevia took the picture with teachers and students at CEEP together.