India

“You know, in the last hours of negotiation on Saturday, there was a fight between India, China, and the U.S. On one side, and all the other countries on the other side to try and change one word from phase out to phase down.”

“And that two or three page document that Came on Wednesday was what then set the tone for the deal to happen on the Saturday, and in that deal is where we had the language around phase down of coal, and that's the language that eventually made it into the fina…”

“India and Pakistan saw some of their warmest springs on record, an event made 30 times more likely by climate change, according to the World Meteorological Organization.”

“Cleaning up the steel industry would mean that we could cut global carbon pollution by eight percent. That's more than the total greenhouse gas emissions from India.”

“There was a study done recently in India. They found half of the wind projects that were built there were not additional at all. That means half of them were just nothing. The other half were credible avoided emissions.”

“And the fires of twenty-twenty in our state wiped out 15 years of progress, and if wildfires were a country, they'd be ranked number four behind China, U.S., and India in terms of carbon emissions.”

“Coal still makes up 60%, 66% of their power generation. In India, it's 74%, and even in Germany, where we always talk about them being leaders in Europe on climate, it's 30%.”

“Today there are about a 100,000 farmers accessing our technology. This is just over 3000 villages that have our equipment”

“India is the largest producer and consumer of milk in the world, but poor infrastructure makes getting chilled milk from farmer to consumer very difficult.”

“And so now, when they're able to chill this milk without the expense of diesel generators, they have a permanent off-taker like Nestle. And so, when you have a permanent off-taker, these farmers start to invest in more cows because they're confident that they'…”

“Women owned NGOs that have now taken over our operations when it comes to producing our own products.”

“Even with a patent, you know, in India, the culture is, there's nothing wrong with stealing someone's technology. It's just the way it is.”

“There are 230,000 milk producing villages in India. And in each of these villages, there are about 25 to 30 farmers.”

“We're working in kind of tier three to six towns, which are really more impoverished towns that Nestle would never enter into. Because it's too small, but it's the fastest growing market, and we're small enough and nimble enough to be able to really be success…”

“And industry standards says that if you don't chill that milk, Within four hours of milking the cows, the bacteria kills that milk, and India is averaging six hours.”

“The milk-producing food processors are collecting better quality milk, which means instead of selling this pouch milk that the consumers have to boil, At seven percent margin, they can now produce value-added products from this quality milk, like ghee and pane…”