Roli Srivastava

• Helming India's first newsroom dedicated to telling stories of the country's vast migrant population through the lens of climate change and energy transition among other themes including caste and gender.
• Recent work in The Migration Story:
• Putting out forest fires with devotion, drums and a dash of music
• Watershed move: When a village shares a vital resource
• Germany, India join forces to bridge green skills gap
• Millionaire village: how forest ownership rights reshaped the fortunes of a tribal village
• The Great Wall of Surajpura / Published in The Guardian: It takes a village / Video story: The Water Warriors of Surajpura
• The Drought that Spawned an ice cream industry/Published in The Guardian: Cool solution

Part of a global team of 60 journalists covering under-reported stories on just transition, climate change, and gender.

- Reported on global humanitarian issues

- Drafted compelling stories for diverse audiences in various formats

- Collaborated with global team and editors to work on cross-border stories, refine content for publication

Key Stories:

• India's farmers wrestle with shift to eco-friendly agriculture
• Women farmers shine as superheroes in India's climate fight
• Heat waves in India drive clean energy state back to coal
• Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India's hydropower push
• Children of India's burning coalfields dream of a fire free future
• As heat wilts crops, women farmers mortgage gold to survive
• India's solar energy boom fuels local struggle for green justice
• India solar park sparks desire for school, as girls dream of green jobs
• Missing wombs: the health scandal enslaving families in rural India

Led the Mumbai city bureau, covering education, health, human rights, environment and crime.

- Writing and editing stories for content clarity and structure

- Reviewed submissions for adherence to publication standards and guidelines

Key stories:

• The rise of superbugs in India as drug resistance soars, with the poorest worst hit
• Ground reality of the state's Clean India Movement
• How violence against women campaigns ignore kitchen accidents that claim most lives

• Wrote, anchored, ideated for news reports and news features, covered health, education and human rights.

• Covered COP29 in Baku, 2024
• Covered Trust Conference in London 2016, 2018
• Reported from Hamburg and Stuttgart in Germany in 2015. Stories included Germany's gender divide on both sides of the erstwhile Berlin Wall and how a translator was bringing Bollywood into German homes
• Reported from Tokyo, Japan, on the first World Assembly for Women in September 2014, and the gender focus in Japan's new economic policy.
• Reported on alleged racist crimes on Indian students in Australia in 2009. Reported on the subject from Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney