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	'''Pamposh Bhat''' (born 19 September 1958) is a New ~~Delhi-based~~ environmentalist and award-winning writer~~. Bhat has been awarded the prestigious Rajbhasha Award for Poetry in 1995 for her work ''"Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein" (In search of the Horizon)''.~~		'''Pamposh Bhat''' (born 19 September 1958) is a New Delhi–based environmentalist and award-winning writer.

	Active in public life, she serves as the chairperson of the board of trustees for ''Jwala'', a civil society group that seeks to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in India. She is a former member of the governing council of the Solar Energy Society of India. At present she is a member of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission advisory committee.

	==Education and career==		==Education and career==
	Bhat studied at St. Joseph's Convent at Bhopal and attended the University of Bhopal (now [[Barkatullah University]]) where she studied Science as an undergraduate student and was awarded an MSc in Chemistry by the University.		Bhat studied at St. Joseph's Convent at Bhopal and attended the University of Bhopal (now [[Barkatullah University]]) where she studied Science as an undergraduate student and was awarded an MSc in Chemistry by the University.

	She began her career at the [[University of Kashmir]] as a research scholar engaged by the [[University Grants Commission (India)\|University Grants Commission]] on a Phytochemistry research Project. She developed a strong interest in environmental policy during her tenure as a researcher and joined the United Nations Asia and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (UN-APCTT) of the [[United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific]]. At UN-APCTT she worked to promote the use of renewable energy and environmentally sound technologies in the country. During her time at UN-APCTT she also edited ''VATIS Update'' a journal of technological developments and events in the field of Non-conventional Energy. She is married to a prominent IAS officer of J&K S.L Bhat who is currently the chief of JK Public Service Commission.		She began her career at the [[University of Kashmir]] as a research scholar engaged by the [[University Grants Commission (India)\|University Grants Commission]] on a Phytochemistry research Project. She developed a strong interest in environmental policy during her tenure as a researcher and joined the United Nations Asia and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (UN-APCTT) of the [[United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific]]. At UN-APCTT she worked to promote the use of renewable energy and environmentally sound technologies in the country. During her time at UN-APCTT she also edited ''VATIS Update'' a journal of technological developments and events in the field of Non-conventional Energy. She is married to a prominent IAS officer of J&K S.L Bhat who is currently the chief of JK Public Service Commission.{{citation needed\|date=January 2025}}

	Bhat joined GTZ-India, a German bilateral development agency in 2003. Her mandate at GTZ-India was to promote the [[Clean Development Mechanism]] (CDM) in the country and help build a sustainable carbon market in India.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.vibrantgujarat.com/sector-presentation/pdf/development_env/cdm_pomposh_bhatt.pdf\|title=Adaptation to Climate Change GTZ Initiatives in India\|access-date=28 June 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717195812/http://www.vibrantgujarat.com/sector-presentation/pdf/development_env/cdm_pomposh_bhatt.pdf\|archive-date=17 July 2011\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.iisd.ca/climate/cop10/enbots/asc/enbots1505e.txt\|title=ENB on the side - 10th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - Issue #5 \|access-date=28 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title= Encyclopaedia of Environment\|last=Gupta \|first= K.R.\|author-link= K.R. Gupta \|year=2005 \|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors \|isbn= 81-269-0530-1\|page=155 }}</ref>		Bhat joined GTZ-India, a German bilateral development agency in 2003. Her mandate at GTZ-India was to promote the [[Clean Development Mechanism]] (CDM) in the country and help build a sustainable carbon market in India.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.vibrantgujarat.com/sector-presentation/pdf/development_env/cdm_pomposh_bhatt.pdf\|title=Adaptation to Climate Change GTZ Initiatives in India\|access-date=28 June 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717195812/http://www.vibrantgujarat.com/sector-presentation/pdf/development_env/cdm_pomposh_bhatt.pdf\|archive-date=17 July 2011\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.iisd.ca/climate/cop10/enbots/asc/enbots1505e.txt\|title=ENB on the side - 10th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - Issue #5 \|access-date=28 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title= Encyclopaedia of Environment\|last=Gupta \|first= K.R.\|author-link= K.R. Gupta \|year=2005 \|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors \|isbn= 81-269-0530-1\|page=155 }}</ref>

	An expert on climate change and renewable energy policy,<ref>{{cite press release\| title = Draft Agenda: "Working Together to Respond to Climate Change", Annex I Expert Group Seminar in Conjunction with the OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, 27–28 March 2006, Paris Salle des Nations, Tour Europe, Paris–La Défense\| publisher = [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]]\| url = http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/12/36278522.pdf \| access-date = 28 June 2009}}</ref> she also held position of the country manager of the BMU CMD/JI Initiative in India.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.jiko-bmu.de/english/service/host_country_information/doc/670.php\|title=BMU CDM/JI Initiative\|access-date=28 June 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514012027/http://www.jiko-bmu.de/english/service/host_country_information/doc/670.php\|archive-date=14 May 2009\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> As an expert on the CDM, she has been retained as a climate policy advisor by the Indian states of [[Madhya Pradesh]], Rajasthan and [[West Bengal]].She is currently working as an advisor, [[climate change adaptation]] program, International Finance Corporation, world bank group and is a member of International advisory board of Abengoa, a company in the energy and environment sectors, generating energy from the sun, producing biofuels, desalinating sea water and recycling industrial waste.		An expert on climate change and renewable energy policy,<ref>{{cite press release\| title = Draft Agenda: "Working Together to Respond to Climate Change", Annex I Expert Group Seminar in Conjunction with the OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, 27–28 March 2006, Paris Salle des Nations, Tour Europe, Paris–La Défense\| publisher = [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]]\| url = http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/12/36278522.pdf \| access-date = 28 June 2009}}</ref> she also held position of the country manager of the BMU CMD/JI Initiative in India.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.jiko-bmu.de/english/service/host_country_information/doc/670.php\|title=BMU CDM/JI Initiative\|access-date=28 June 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514012027/http://www.jiko-bmu.de/english/service/host_country_information/doc/670.php\|archive-date=14 May 2009\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> As an expert on the CDM, she has been retained as a climate policy advisor by the Indian states of [[Madhya Pradesh]], Rajasthan and [[West Bengal]].She is currently working as an advisor, [[climate change adaptation]] program, International Finance Corporation, world bank group and is a member of International advisory board of Abengoa, a company in the energy and environment sectors, generating energy from the sun, producing biofuels, desalinating sea water and recycling industrial waste.{{citation needed\|date=January 2025}}

	Bhat headed DFID Indo-British Climate Change Innovation Program and supported states of Maharashtra, Kerala, Odisha, Bihar, Assam and Chhattisgarh in developing state action plans for climate change and introduce concept of climate financing and prepare projects for national and International climate financing. She is at present heading India-EU clean energy and climate change partnership project which aims to cooperate on clean energy, sustainable development and climate related initiatives and support India in the implementation of the NDC's under Paris Agreement.		Bhat headed DFID Indo-British Climate Change Innovation Program and supported states of Maharashtra, Kerala, Odisha, Bihar, Assam and Chhattisgarh in developing state action plans for climate change and introduce concept of climate financing and prepare projects for national and International climate financing. She is at present heading India-EU clean energy and climate change partnership project which aims to cooperate on clean energy, sustainable development and climate related initiatives and support India in the implementation of the NDC's under Paris Agreement.{{citation needed\|date=January 2025}}

			Active in public life, she serves as the chairperson of the board of trustees for ''Jwala'', a civil society group that seeks to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in India. She is a former member of the governing council of the Solar Energy Society of India. At present she is a member of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission advisory committee.{{citation needed\|date=January 2025}}

	==Creative writing==		==Creative writing==
	Bhat has penned two collections of poems, ''Trishna'' (1995) and ''Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein'' (1993). ''Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein'' was adjudged the winner of the Rajbhasha Award as the best entry by a vernacular author writing in Hindi.		Bhat has penned two collections of poems, ''Trishna'' (1995) and ''Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein'' (1993). ''Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein'' was adjudged the winner of the Rajbhasha Award as the best entry by a vernacular author writing in Hindi.

	In 2000, her short story ''Bub'' was made into an eponymous feature film [[Bub (film)\|Bub]],<ref>{{cite web\|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262868/\|title=Bub the Father\|access-date=28 June 2009}}</ref> only the third feature film in the language and the first in 38 years.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2002/12/09/stories/2002120904821300.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121145606/http://www.hindu.com/2002/12/09/stories/2002120904821300.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=21 January 2007\|title= Kashmiri film after four decades , Hindu Monday, Dec 09, 2002 \|access-date=28 June 2009 \| location=Chennai, India\|work=[[The Hindu]]\|date=9 December 2002}}</ref> The Film was awarded the [[Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration]] in the 2002 [[National Film Awards]] by the President of India.		In 2000, her short story ''Bub'' was made into an eponymous feature film [[Bub (film)\|Bub]],<ref>{{cite web\|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262868/\|title=Bub the Father\|website=[[IMDb]] \|access-date=28 June 2009}}</ref> only the third feature film in the language and the first in 38 years.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2002/12/09/stories/2002120904821300.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121145606/http://www.hindu.com/2002/12/09/stories/2002120904821300.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=21 January 2007\|title= Kashmiri film after four decades, Hindu Monday, Dec 09, 2002 \|access-date=28 June 2009 \| location=Chennai, India\|work=[[The Hindu]]\|date=9 December 2002}}</ref> The Film was awarded the [[Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration]] in the 2002 [[National Film Awards]] by the President of India.

	==Awards==		==Awards==
	* ~~The~~ Rajbhasha Award for Poetry~~, Government~~ of ~~India, 1995~~<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://rajbhasha.nic.in/impleng.htm\|title=Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India\|access-date=28 June 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619064723/http://rajbhasha.nic.in/impleng.htm\|archive-date=19 June 2009\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref>		* Bhat has been awarded the prestigious Rajbhasha Award for Poetry in 1995 for her work ''"Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein" (In search of the Horizon)''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://rajbhasha.nic.in/impleng.htm\|title=Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India\|access-date=28 June 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619064723/http://rajbhasha.nic.in/impleng.htm\|archive-date=19 June 2009\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

	==Publications==		==Publications==
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	*[http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=290162 "Media rap to hit carbon credits" Business Standard Newswire18 / Mumbai 6 July 2007]		*[http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=290162 "Media rap to hit carbon credits" Business Standard Newswire18 / Mumbai 6 July 2007]
	* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080509012401/http://www.carbonyatra.com/expert_detail.php?id=39 "Interview with Pamposh Bhat"]		* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080509012401/http://www.carbonyatra.com/expert_detail.php?id=39 "Interview with Pamposh Bhat"]
	* [http://www.cewindia.com/oct08_details.html Interview Pamposh Bhat, Director, Climate Change, GTZ India "India's CDM potential represents a significant component of the global CDM market"]{{dead link\|date=March 2018 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}

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	'''Pamposh Bhat''' (born 19 September~~, [[Bhopal]], India~~) is a New Delhi-based environmentalist and award-winning writer. Bhat has been awarded the prestigious Rajbhasha Award for Poetry in 1995 for her work ''"Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein" (In search of the Horizon)''.		'''Pamposh Bhat''' (born 19 September 1958) is a New Delhi-based environmentalist and award-winning writer. Bhat has been awarded the prestigious Rajbhasha Award for Poetry in 1995 for her work ''"Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein" (In search of the Horizon)''.

	Active in public life, she serves as the chairperson of the board of trustees for ''Jwala'', a civil society group that seeks to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in India. She is a former member of the governing council of the [Solar Energy Society of India].At present member of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission advisory committee.		Active in public life, she serves as the chairperson of the board of trustees for ''Jwala'', a civil society group that seeks to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in India. She is a former member of the governing council of the Solar Energy Society of India. At present she is a member of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission advisory committee.

	==Education and career==		==Education and career==
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	Bhat joined GTZ-India, a German bilateral development agency in 2003. Her mandate at GTZ-India was to promote the [[Clean Development Mechanism]] (CDM) in the country and help build a sustainable carbon market in India.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.vibrantgujarat.com/sector-presentation/pdf/development_env/cdm_pomposh_bhatt.pdf\|title=Adaptation to Climate Change GTZ Initiatives in India\|access-date=28 June 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717195812/http://www.vibrantgujarat.com/sector-presentation/pdf/development_env/cdm_pomposh_bhatt.pdf\|archive-date=17 July 2011\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.iisd.ca/climate/cop10/enbots/asc/enbots1505e.txt\|title=ENB on the side - 10th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - Issue #5 \|access-date=28 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title= Encyclopaedia of Environment\|last=Gupta \|first= K.R.\|author-link= K.R. Gupta \|year=2005 \|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors \|isbn= 81-269-0530-1\|page=155 }}</ref>		Bhat joined GTZ-India, a German bilateral development agency in 2003. Her mandate at GTZ-India was to promote the [[Clean Development Mechanism]] (CDM) in the country and help build a sustainable carbon market in India.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.vibrantgujarat.com/sector-presentation/pdf/development_env/cdm_pomposh_bhatt.pdf\|title=Adaptation to Climate Change GTZ Initiatives in India\|access-date=28 June 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717195812/http://www.vibrantgujarat.com/sector-presentation/pdf/development_env/cdm_pomposh_bhatt.pdf\|archive-date=17 July 2011\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.iisd.ca/climate/cop10/enbots/asc/enbots1505e.txt\|title=ENB on the side - 10th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - Issue #5 \|access-date=28 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title= Encyclopaedia of Environment\|last=Gupta \|first= K.R.\|author-link= K.R. Gupta \|year=2005 \|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors \|isbn= 81-269-0530-1\|page=155 }}</ref>

	An expert on climate change and renewable energy policy,<ref>{{cite press release\| title = Draft Agenda: "Working Together to Respond to Climate Change", Annex I Expert Group Seminar in Conjunction with the OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, 27–28 March 2006, Paris Salle des Nations, Tour Europe, Paris–La Défense\| publisher = [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]]\| url = http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/12/36278522.pdf \| access-date = 28 June 2009}}</ref> she also held position of the country manager of the BMU CMD/JI Initiative in India.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.jiko-bmu.de/english/service/host_country_information/doc/670.php\|title=BMU CDM/JI Initiative\|access-date=28 June 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514012027/http://www.jiko-bmu.de/english/service/host_country_information/doc/670.php\|archive-date=14 May 2009\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> As an expert on the CDM, she has been retained as a climate policy advisor by the Indian states of [[Madhya Pradesh]], Rajasthan and [[West Bengal]].She is currently working as an advisor, climate change adaptation ~~Programme~~, International Finance Corporation, world bank group and is a member of International advisory board of Abengoa,a company in the energy and environment sectors, generating energy from the sun, producing biofuels, desalinating sea water and recycling industrial waste.		An expert on climate change and renewable energy policy,<ref>{{cite press release\| title = Draft Agenda: "Working Together to Respond to Climate Change", Annex I Expert Group Seminar in Conjunction with the OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, 27–28 March 2006, Paris Salle des Nations, Tour Europe, Paris–La Défense\| publisher = [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]]\| url = http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/12/36278522.pdf \| access-date = 28 June 2009}}</ref> she also held position of the country manager of the BMU CMD/JI Initiative in India.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.jiko-bmu.de/english/service/host_country_information/doc/670.php\|title=BMU CDM/JI Initiative\|access-date=28 June 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514012027/http://www.jiko-bmu.de/english/service/host_country_information/doc/670.php\|archive-date=14 May 2009\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> As an expert on the CDM, she has been retained as a climate policy advisor by the Indian states of [[Madhya Pradesh]], Rajasthan and [[West Bengal]].She is currently working as an advisor, [[climate change adaptation]] program, International Finance Corporation, world bank group and is a member of International advisory board of Abengoa, a company in the energy and environment sectors, generating energy from the sun, producing biofuels, desalinating sea water and recycling industrial waste.
	Bhat headed DFID Indo-British Climate Change Innovation Program and supported states of ~~Maharastra~~, Kerala, Odisha, Bihar, Assam and Chhattisgarh in developing state action plans for climate change and introduce concept of climate financing and prepare projects for national and International climate financing. She is at present heading India-EU clean energy and climate change partnership project which aims to cooperate on clean energy, sustainable development and climate related initiatives and support India in the implementation of the NDC's under Paris Agreement.
			Bhat headed DFID Indo-British Climate Change Innovation Program and supported states of Maharashtra, Kerala, Odisha, Bihar, Assam and Chhattisgarh in developing state action plans for climate change and introduce concept of climate financing and prepare projects for national and International climate financing. She is at present heading India-EU clean energy and climate change partnership project which aims to cooperate on clean energy, sustainable development and climate related initiatives and support India in the implementation of the NDC's under Paris Agreement.

	==Creative writing==		==Creative writing==
	Bhat has penned two collections of poems, ''Trishna'' (1995) and ''Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein'' (1993). ''Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein'' was adjudged the winner of the Rajbhasha Award as the best entry by a vernacular author writing in Hindi.		Bhat has penned two collections of poems, ''Trishna'' (1995) and ''Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein'' (1993). ''Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein'' was adjudged the winner of the Rajbhasha Award as the best entry by a vernacular author writing in Hindi.

	In 2000, her short story ''Bub'' was made into an eponymous feature film [[Bub (film)\|Bub]],<ref>{{cite web\|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262868/\|title=Bub the Father\|access-date=28 June 2009}}</ref> only the third feature film in the language and the first in 38 years.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2002/12/09/stories/2002120904821300.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121145606/http://www.hindu.com/2002/12/09/stories/2002120904821300.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=21 January 2007\|title= Kashmiri film after four decades , Hindu Monday, Dec 09, 2002 \|access-date=28 June 2009 \| location=Chennai, India\|work=[[The Hindu]]\|date=9 December 2002}}</ref> The Film was awarded the [[Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration]] in the 2002 [[National Film Awards]] by the President of India.		In 2000, her short story ''Bub'' was made into an eponymous feature film [[Bub (film)\|Bub]],<ref>{{cite web\|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262868/\|title=Bub the Father\|access-date=28 June 2009}}</ref> only the third feature film in the language and the first in 38 years.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2002/12/09/stories/2002120904821300.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121145606/http://www.hindu.com/2002/12/09/stories/2002120904821300.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=21 January 2007\|title= Kashmiri film after four decades , Hindu Monday, Dec 09, 2002 \|access-date=28 June 2009 \| location=Chennai, India\|work=[[The Hindu]]\|date=9 December 2002}}</ref> The Film was awarded the [[Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration]] in the 2002 [[National Film Awards]] by the President of India.

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	==Publications==		==Publications==
	===Academic writing===		===Academic writing===
	*Pamposh Bhat "Carbon Markets:The Post Copenhagen Scenario" PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd and Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd's Commodity Insights Yearbook 2010		*Pamposh Bhat "Carbon Markets: The Post Copenhagen Scenario" PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd and Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd's Commodity Insights Yearbook 2010
	* Pamposh Bhat and Moksha Bhat, "Climate change: The way forward" in ''Reality Check on Environmental Change: A Multidimensional Study on its Impacts'', Times Foundation/[Times of India Group], India. May 2010		* Pamposh Bhat and Moksha Bhat, "Climate change: The way forward" in ''Reality Check on Environmental Change: A Multidimensional Study on its Impacts'', Times Foundation/[Times of India Group], India. May 2010
	* Mikael Henzler, Peter Siegenthaler and Pamposh Bhat, ''Bamboo as a Resource for Sustainable Development in Asia: Concept Paper on behalf of UNDP'', [[UNDP]], New Delhi, 1999<ref name="adelphi-research.de">{{cite web\|url=http://www.adelphi-research.de/de/team_publications/3.html \|title=Publikationen von Mikael P. Henzler \|access-date=28 June 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426182311/http://www.adelphi-research.de/de/team_publications/3.html \|archive-date=26 April 2006 }}</ref>		* Mikael Henzler, Peter Siegenthaler and Pamposh Bhat, ''Bamboo as a Resource for Sustainable Development in Asia: Concept Paper on behalf of UNDP'', [[UNDP]], New Delhi, 1999<ref name="adelphi-research.de">{{cite web\|url=http://www.adelphi-research.de/de/team_publications/3.html \|title=Publikationen von Mikael P. Henzler \|access-date=28 June 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426182311/http://www.adelphi-research.de/de/team_publications/3.html \|archive-date=26 April 2006 }}</ref>

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'''Pamposh Bhat''' (born 19 September, [[Bhopal]], India) is a New Delhi-based environmentalist and award-winning writer. Bhat has been awarded the prestigious Rajbhasha Award for Poetry in 1995 for her work ''"Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein" (In search of the Horizon)''.

Active in public life, she serves as the chairperson of the board of trustees for ''Jwala'', a civil society group that seeks to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in India. She is a former member of the governing council of the [Solar Energy Society of India].At present member of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission advisory committee.

==Education and career==
Bhat studied at St. Joseph's Convent at Bhopal and attended the University of Bhopal (now [[Barkatullah University]]) where she studied Science as an undergraduate student and was awarded an MSc in Chemistry by the University.

She began her career at the [[University of Kashmir]] as a research scholar engaged by the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] on a Phytochemistry research Project. She developed a strong interest in environmental policy during her tenure as a researcher and joined the United Nations Asia and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (UN-APCTT) of the [[United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific]]. At UN-APCTT she worked to promote the use of renewable energy and environmentally sound technologies in the country. During her time at UN-APCTT she also edited ''VATIS Update'' a journal of technological developments and events in the field of Non-conventional Energy. She is married to a prominent IAS officer of J&K S.L Bhat who is currently the chief of JK Public Service Commission.

Bhat joined GTZ-India, a German bilateral development agency in 2003. Her mandate at GTZ-India was to promote the [[Clean Development Mechanism]] (CDM) in the country and help build a sustainable carbon market in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vibrantgujarat.com/sector-presentation/pdf/development_env/cdm_pomposh_bhatt.pdf|title=Adaptation to Climate Change GTZ Initiatives in India|access-date=28 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717195812/http://www.vibrantgujarat.com/sector-presentation/pdf/development_env/cdm_pomposh_bhatt.pdf|archive-date=17 July 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iisd.ca/climate/cop10/enbots/asc/enbots1505e.txt|title=ENB on the side - 10th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - Issue #5 |access-date=28 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= Encyclopaedia of Environment|last=Gupta |first= K.R.|author-link= K.R. Gupta |year=2005 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors |isbn= 81-269-0530-1|page=155 }}</ref>

An expert on climate change and renewable energy policy,<ref>{{cite press release| title = Draft Agenda: "Working Together to Respond to Climate Change", Annex I Expert Group Seminar in Conjunction with the OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, 27–28 March 2006, Paris Salle des Nations, Tour Europe, Paris–La Défense| publisher = [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]]| url = http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/12/36278522.pdf | access-date = 28 June 2009}}</ref> she also held position of the country manager of the BMU CMD/JI Initiative in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jiko-bmu.de/english/service/host_country_information/doc/670.php|title=BMU CDM/JI Initiative|access-date=28 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514012027/http://www.jiko-bmu.de/english/service/host_country_information/doc/670.php|archive-date=14 May 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> As an expert on the CDM, she has been retained as a climate policy advisor by the Indian states of [[Madhya Pradesh]], Rajasthan and [[West Bengal]].She is currently working as an advisor, climate change adaptation Programme, International Finance Corporation, world bank group and is a member of International advisory board of Abengoa,a company in the energy and environment sectors, generating energy from the sun, producing biofuels, desalinating sea water and recycling industrial waste.
Bhat headed DFID Indo-British Climate Change Innovation Program and supported states of Maharastra, Kerala, Odisha, Bihar, Assam and Chhattisgarh in developing state action plans for climate change and introduce concept of climate financing and prepare projects for national and International climate financing. She is at present heading India-EU clean energy and climate change partnership project which aims to cooperate on clean energy, sustainable development and climate related initiatives and support India in the implementation of the NDC's under Paris Agreement.

==Creative writing==
Bhat has penned two collections of poems, ''Trishna'' (1995) and ''Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein'' (1993). ''Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein'' was adjudged the winner of the Rajbhasha Award as the best entry by a vernacular author writing in Hindi.
In 2000, her short story ''Bub'' was made into an eponymous feature film [[Bub (film)|Bub]],<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262868/|title=Bub the Father|access-date=28 June 2009}}</ref> only the third feature film in the language and the first in 38 years.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2002/12/09/stories/2002120904821300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121145606/http://www.hindu.com/2002/12/09/stories/2002120904821300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 January 2007|title= Kashmiri film after four decades , Hindu Monday, Dec 09, 2002 |access-date=28 June 2009 | location=Chennai, India|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=9 December 2002}}</ref> The Film was awarded the [[Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration]] in the 2002 [[National Film Awards]] by the President of India.

==Awards==
* The Rajbhasha Award for Poetry, Government of India, 1995<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rajbhasha.nic.in/impleng.htm|title=Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India|access-date=28 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619064723/http://rajbhasha.nic.in/impleng.htm|archive-date=19 June 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Publications==
===Academic writing===
*Pamposh Bhat "Carbon Markets:The Post Copenhagen Scenario" PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd and Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd's Commodity Insights Yearbook 2010
* Pamposh Bhat and Moksha Bhat, "Climate change: The way forward" in ''Reality Check on Environmental Change: A Multidimensional Study on its Impacts'', Times Foundation/[Times of India Group], India. May 2010
* Mikael Henzler, Peter Siegenthaler and Pamposh Bhat, ''Bamboo as a Resource for Sustainable Development in Asia: Concept Paper on behalf of UNDP'', [[UNDP]], New Delhi, 1999<ref name="adelphi-research.de">{{cite web|url=http://www.adelphi-research.de/de/team_publications/3.html |title=Publikationen von Mikael P. Henzler |access-date=28 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426182311/http://www.adelphi-research.de/de/team_publications/3.html |archive-date=26 April 2006 }}</ref>
* Mikael Henzler and Pamposh Bhat, ''Impacts of Vegetable Dyes on Indian Textile Industries: Market Assessment on behalf of UNDP'', [[UNDP]], New Delhi, 1999<ref name="adelphi-research.de"/>
* Pamposh Bhat and Dr. M. L. Raina, ''Annual Report of the Research Project 1989 titled 'Chemical investigation of Aquatic Plants in Kashmir''', [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]], New Delhi, 1989
* Pamposh Bhat and Dr. M. L. Raina, ''Chemical investigation of Aquatic Plants in Kashmir'', Indian Chemical Society Journal, August 1989;
* Pamposh Bhat and Dr. M. L. Raina, ''Further Chemical Studies of Polygonum Linn'', Planta Medica, July 1989

===Poetry===
* ''Trishna'', Limited Circulation, Self Published, New Delhi, 1995
* ''Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein (In Search of the Horizon)'', Limited Circulation, Self Published, New Delhi, 1993

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.jwalaindia.org Jwala India]
* [http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=327549 "India enjoys low-cost edge in carbon market" Business Standard, Sunday, 28 June 2009]
*[http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=290162 "Media rap to hit carbon credits" Business Standard Newswire18 / Mumbai 6 July 2007]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080509012401/http://www.carbonyatra.com/expert_detail.php?id=39 "Interview with Pamposh Bhat"]
* [http://www.cewindia.com/oct08_details.html Interview Pamposh Bhat, Director, Climate Change, GTZ India "India's CDM potential represents a significant component of the global CDM market"]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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