Arjun P Gupta is one of India’s leading climate action entrepreneurs with a mission to make sustainability the default choice. He is the Founder and CEO of Smart Joules, which drives energy savings for large businesses and factories through cooling-as-a-service business models and intelligent automation technologies. Under Arjun’s leadership, Smart Joules has delivered 200,000 tons of CO2 savings and is pursuing an ambitious target of 29 million tons by 2030. Arjun is also the Founding Director of The Sustainability Mafia, a non-profit company composed of 80 leading sustainability founders across India, with goals of moving 1 million students into climate action careers by 2030 and starting 100 new companies by 2027. Arjun has been recognised as one of India’s top Young Leaders by the Economic Times, an Echoing Green Climate Fellow, a Young Entrepreneur of the Year by Business Standard, 40 Under 40 by Business World, Climate Strategies Accelerator Fellow by the Packard Foundation, and Champion of Change by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India and NITI Aayog.