What we do

• Research

  PRIED carries out evidence-based and actionable research on economic, social and environmental effects of the government policies in energy sector. This research seeks to find empirical data and evidence from the ground and then formulates its findings in such a way that it can be used for practical purposes such as policy advocacy and policy reforms. We have successfully conducted multiple research studies on topics as diverse as the social, economic and environmental impacts of coal mining and coal-based power generation on local communities in Thar, financial hurdles that rooftop solar power installation faces and the solarization of high loss electricity feeders in Karachi.

• Collaboration

  PRIED is a founder and active member of the Alliance for Climate Justice and Clean Energy (ACJCE), a civil society network that endeavors to divert Pakistan from fossil-fuel-based energy production. The alliance, simultaneously, advocates for the adoption of such clean and renewable sources of energy that are socially suitable, economically affordable and environmentally sustainable. PRIED is also the founding member of RE Coalition, a network of research organizations working for the promotion of renewable energy in Pakistan. We are working in close collaboration with a number of regional and global partners and allies too.

• Advocacy

  PRIED regularly engages with legislators, policymakers, aid organizations and international financial institutions in order to facilitate and promote policies that ensure an equitable and sustainable development in energy sector. The most important means that it employs for this is in-person consultations and meetings where information, knowledge, and ideas are exchanged freely and candidly. Alongside public interactions, we also use closed-door parleys. Together, these two modes of interaction help PRIED contribute meaningfully in policy planning, policy critique, policy coordination and policy implementation.

• Outreach

  PRIED engages regularly with reporters, editors, filmmakers and social media content creators to ensure that our research and advocacy work are carried to a wide audience. This engagement helps us develop media literacy about energy transition and climate justice as well as create public awareness about the impacts of fossil-fuel-based energy production and initiate a media discourse on the urgent need for a transition to renewable energy. It also enables us to highlight the flaws and failures of the government’s energy policies and underscore the importance of providing climate justice to the victims of those policies.