Representation, ownership and funding in climate change and health research in South Asia

Climate change is a shared threat that requires co-ordinated geo-political and scientific co-operation. South Asia is witnessing severe impacts of climate change, despite having a low carbon footprint per capita.1 With increasing climate change and health research, it is essential to understand if the knowledge ecosystem which underpins it is fair and just, in terms of representation, ownership and funding. Historically, knowledge systems positioned colonisers as the producers and gatekeepers of knowledge and the colonised as ‘subjects’ and receivers of knowledge.