Field deployments, scientific research, international conferences, partnerships, community projects and organisational milestones.
A five-day workshop introduced students to the science, engineering and community dimensions of climate adaptation — combining lectures on surface cooling and reflective materials with hands-on rooftop activities and community site visits.
MEER India welcomed 15 journalists to its Pune office and field installation site for an on-ground introduction to reflective cooling and broader climate adaptation work — with detailed discussion of durability, scalability and the lived reality of extreme urban heat.
Dr. Soumitra Das and Rituraj Phukan of the Healthy Climate Initiative visited MEER India's ongoing field installations, meeting resident Rani whose home has been fitted with reflective roofing and discussing maintenance, cost and long-term durability.
Led by Bunny and Samiksha, MEER India hosted graduate students from Fergusson College at the Hanuman Nagar demonstration site, where reflective rooftop sheets are already installed on tin-roofed homes in the informal settlement.
Two identical glass boxes, one topped with MEER reflective sheets and one with a standard roof, produced a clear 1.6–2°C difference in internal temperature — visibly slowing how quickly ice cream melted inside.
MEER's Pune team is investigating bamboo — widely available across India and long used in local building traditions — as a low-carbon material for shading canopies and rooftop passive cooling structures.
The India team applied several adhesive samples to reflective film on a corrugated galvanised roof, testing which bonding methods — ideally simple or naturally derived — best withstand heat, dust, humidity and daily temperature swings.
At an experimental site where MEER reflective sheets have been installed on family homes, Mr. Rajput — brother of a resident — described the noticeably cooler afternoons his sister's family now experiences under the adapted roof.
At the 2026 International Conference on Solar Radiation Modification in Xi'an, Professor Benjamin K. Sovacool presented MEER's Sierra Leone research as part of his plenary — bringing work that began in Freetown to one of the world's leading scientific conferences on climate intervention.
Trainees on Freetown's upcycling programme took a new bamboo-and-PET composite beam into the surf at Aberdeen Beach to test its buoyancy, load capacity and durability.
Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex, Dr. Sovacool spent two days touring MEER's upcycling, passive-cooling and hectare-scale sites across Freetown.
The MEER India team presented at the Avishkar Competition at Fergusson College, taking Mirrors for Earth's Energy Rebalancing into the Pure Sciences category.
Represented by Yukta Pandey and Rajat Kumar Singh, the MEER India team progressed to the zonal round of the prestigious Aavishkar research competition.
Ahead of installing a reflective park canopy at Freetown's Aberdeen roundabout, the MEER Freetown team sat a two-part examination to prove they were ready for the build.
Ten disabled students from the Dorothy Springer Trust joined the MEER team at Aberdeen for a hands-on introduction to upcycling and reflective canopy construction.
Rose Taylor walked 28 miles across 45 bridges to raise funds for MEER — exceeding her goal and raising over £2,000 for surface-cooling projects.
Dr. Ye Tao delivered a lecture at Fergusson College, Pune on 16 September 2023, followed by a two-week workshop on MEER sheet science, safety and rooftop application.