Rohan Chakravarty's Blog

Joining online from India, I drew cartoons for the Global Resilience Partnership's COP 30 Resilience Hub . The sessions encompassed a wide variety of discussions, collaboration AND action. Here are some of the cartoons from the COP30 below-











































To view the entire gallery, click here. And to watch the session recordings, visit the COP Resilience Hub Youtube channel. 
A huge thanks to Anastasia Brainich and Karen Bennie of the Global Resilience Partnership for the continued association!

A big thanks to the Global Resilience Partnership for continuing my association with the COP Resilience Hub this year as well! Sharing some cartoons created live during the opening session of the Cop Res Hub (11th November 2024).




Cartoons from a session on indigenous and youth activism at the Cop Res Hub, 11th November 2024.




Cartoons from a session on financial innovation for climate aid for informal sectors, with speakers from SEWA and Atlantic Council, 12th November, 2024.




Cartoons from a session on climate resilient infrastructure in Latin America leading up to COP 30, with an emphasis on indigenous leadership, with speakers from Avina, the Ministry of Environment of Brazil, and HE Razan Al Mubarak, the COP28 UN high level champion. (12th November 2024)



Live cartoons from a session on aligning finance with nature-based solutions, with speakers from IUCN, Alluvium and CEEW(13th November 2024).






Live cartoons from a session on anticipatory action for climate risks and disasters, with speakers from ICCCAD, Ground Truth Solutions, UNICEF and AMERICARES. 13th November 2024.

A big thanks to the Global Resilience Partnership for continuing my association with the COP Resilience Hub this year as well! Sharing some cartoons created live during the opening session of the Cop Res Hub (11th November 2024).




Cartoons from a session on indigenous and youth activism at the Cop Res Hub, 11th November 2024.




Cartoons from a session on financial innovation for climate aid for informal sectors, with speakers from SEWA and Atlantic Council, 12th November, 2024.




Cartoons from a session on climate resilient infrastructure in Latin America leading up to COP 30, with an emphasis on indigenous leadership, with speakers from Avina, the Ministry of Environment of Brazil, and HE Razan Al Mubarak, the COP28 UN high level champion. (12th November 2024)



Live cartoons from a session on aligning finance with nature-based solutions, with speakers from IUCN, Alluvium and CEEW(13th November 2024).






Live cartoons from a session on anticipatory action for climate risks and disasters, with speakers from ICCCAD, Ground Truth Solutions, UNICEF and AMERICARES. 13th November 2024.

Cartoons created for the Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies' gathering of their climate and environment portfolio grantees, which were designed as caption contests for the participants. While the cartoons I am posting here bear my original captions, the cartoons initially displayed to the participants were captionless, inviting them to team up over filling in the caption clouds, resulting in a delightful icebreaking and team-building exercise, as well as some truly hilarious and ingenious captions!
A big thanks to the RNP team for the opportunity.

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to draw cartoons on one of the most desired mammals on my wildlife wishlist- the Mediterranean Monk Seal. The cartoons are meant as commuication resources for SPA/RAC's Mediterranean Monk Seal Project, to unite biologists, conservationists, funders, governments, fishers and citizens in the conservation of the Mediterranean Monk Seal. 
Thanks to Julie Belmont and SPA/RAC for this fun commission!

I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Birdlife Montenegro over three delightful cartoons on bird ringing, that were used as creatives on communication collateral and merchandise at the bird ringing camp at Ulcinj Salina, an important wetland and migratory bird pathway on the Adriatic Sea. 
A huge thanks to Ksenija Medenica and the CZIP Montenegro team for the opportunity! (For context in the second cartoon- Montenegrins are considered the laziest among Europe, and they're so proud of the tag that they even have a laziness contest!)

Happy #WorldTurtleDay ! Delighted to share the first of two comics I created for the impact campaign of Gunjan Menon's National Geographic film, 'Looking for Lao Mura', about the critically endangered Black Softshell Turtle. Doubly chuffed that the comics will be up on display in Assamese locally! In collaboration with Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises of IndiaSo grateful for this opportunity, Gunjan, Anuja Mital and Pradeep Hegde!

(Click on the image for a larger view)
In one of my lengthiest and most detailed illustration projects yet, I got the honour of working closely with the fabulous team at The Seachange Project (creators of the Oscar winning documentary 'My Octopus Teacher')- to create a vision of hope for the Great African Seaforest, a vast expanse of kelp forest in the Atlantic Ocean along the western coast of South Africa. From the glamorous Cape Fur Seal, Cape Clawless Otter and the African Penguin to little known klipfish and limpets, the Great African Seaforest is home to a myriad marine organisms that make the kelp a living, breathing, and a dancing ecosystem! Many of these creatures are threatened by overfishing and anthropogenic disturbances today, and conservationists at the Seachange Project are working towards establishing safe, undisturbed habitats for these species to bounce back.
The illustration is available as a freely downloadable resource on the organization's website here. A massive thanks to the Seachange team (Swati Thiyagarajan, Craig Foster, Carina Frankal, Dani Ehrlich, Jannes Landschoff) for trusting me with the illustration, for having me at Cape Town for a field visit, and for their patience through the project!

Mass hunger strikes and protests are underway in Ladakh for environmental, cultural and governmental safeguards. But Ladakh's wildlife doesn't even need to go on a hunger strike! 
Comic for The Hindu Sunday Magazine. 

If you too have had a long face reading about the decimation of the Saiga Antelope's populations from hunting and disease over the years, there's some news that might bring a smile to your face too! Efforts by the Kazakh government, NGOs and people have paid off enough to bring the Saiga from critically endangered to near-threatened on the IUCN Red List. In these times, that's a long jump, even for an antelope!
Not-so-fun-fact: The bird in the comic strip, a Sociable Lapwing, is a critically endangered steppe species too.
Comic for DW Envronment.