A workshop on understanding the impacts of plastics across its lifecycle.
Centre for Financial Accountability, in collaboration with the Sambhaavnaa Institute of Public Policy and Politics and Samata: Assertion for People, is organising “Unpacking Plastics: Climate, Communities and Corporates”, a workshop that will explore the impacts of plastics across their entire lifecycle.
Date of the event: 8–12 October 2025
Time: 9 am IST onwards
Venue: Sambhaavnaa Institute in Kandbari, Himachal Pradesh
About the workshop: This workshop aims to help participants understand the relationship between fossil fuels and plastics. It also aims to help the participant understand what it takes to make plastics and the impact that it has on the climate, environment and humans in each stage of its death cycle: from oil exploration, transportation of crude oil, refining, manufacturing of petrochemicals (which are the raw materials for plastics), the production of plastics, consumption and ‘disposal’. The workshop will also help in the critical analysis, monitoring, and critique of the role of financial institutions – national and international in the development of the plastics industry buildout and holding them accountable.
The workshop will help participants explore these issues from the perspective of social and environmental justice. Evidence and data offered in this workshop will help build the participants’ knowledge on the themes covered.
Who is the workshop for? This is a call to all teachers, students, activists, community mobilisers and concerned citizens who are deeply concerned about this state of affairs today. We invite young minds to come together, use this opportunity to sharpen their understanding and capacities to engage with their surroundings.
Language: The primary medium of communication will be in English
Resource Persons: CFA will anchor the workshop. Resource persons will include members of CFA’s oil and gas team and some thematic experts. The following is the tentative list of speakers-
- Vishvaja Sambath, Centre for Financial Accountability
- Swathi Seshadri, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
- Soumya Datta, Climate expert
- Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran, Centre for Financial Accountability
Organisers: Centre for Financial Accountability, Sambhaavnaa Institute of Public Policy and Politics and Samata: Assertion for People
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