Prof (Dr) Rihan Khan Suri, Director, Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Jamia Millia Islamia, said that accelerating climate stress had increased the demand for innovation and adaptive solutions. He emphasised that climate action must move beyond discussions into practice, driven by laboratories, start-ups, social enterprises, and field-based, real-world experimentation to create meaningful and scalable impact.
He was speaking at the 2nd Yuva Sustainability Conference on “Beyond COP30: Youth for Climate Action”, organised on 13 December 2025 under the Yuva Sustainability Internship Programme by Voices of Bharat: Yuva for Sustainability, a Sustainability Karma initiative, with Lok Samvad Sansthan as the implementation partner, in association with the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Jamia Millia Islamia.