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July 2024:
News,Views, and Updates from TERI
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Dear Reader,
As monsoon took over an unforgiving summer, climate change continued to serve chilling reminders of its presence. The extreme rainfall patterns continued to hound India, with Wayanad in Kerala experiencing deadly landslides recently.
TERI stayed true to its mission of creating a sustainable future by engaging top stakeholders in discourse around climate change and by tapping various mediums of communications to spread awareness about the environmental crisis.
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The Energy and Resources Institute’s (TERI) 50th year celebrations focused on the theme ‘Pioneering Sustainable Solutions: Goa's Path to 2030 SDGs,’ reflecting the urgency of today’s environmental and climate challenges. The event successfully brought together a diverse array of stakeholders from various sectors to delve into their experiences, integrate new insights, and foster decision-making for a sustainable and equitable future for Goa.
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The Union Budget 2024-25 presented by Finance Minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman included several key initiatives like energy transition pathways, climate finance, improving water resources management, and measures related to irrigation and flood management that will boost India's fight against impacts of climate change, according to experts of TERI.
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The Travelogue describes our journey across the eastern coal belt regions of Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh, aptly captures the real-life stories of the stakeholders dependent on coal economy. The narration in this travelogue portrays the ground level challenges and concerns. Such qualitative facets of the coal producing geographies throw light on life, livelihood and other socioeconomic dimensions. Narratives emerging from such evidence speak volumes of coal dependence, which may provide planners and researcher with leads to think ahead.
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How Cities Can Beat the Heat with Passive Design
“Investing in insulation, optimising thermal mass, and fostering natural ventilation has enduring benefits for both your finances and the environment,” write Mr Sanjay Seth, Senior Director and Ms Sheen Pandita, Research Associate, TERI in their op-ed in Hindustan Times.
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Policy and Market Synergy Required for EV Sector to Thrive
"India can achieve a 6% reduction in GHG emissions in the transportation sector by achieving 30% sale of EVs in new vehicles by 2030,” write Ms Akshaya Paul, Research Associate and Mr Sharif Qamar, Associate Director, TERI in their Deccan Herald op-ed.
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Don’t Privatise Essential Services
"India must not ignore the UK experience, where privatisation of electricity, gas, water, railways has not worked", writes Mr Ajay Shankar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI, in his op-ed for The Hindu Business Line.
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TERI organized an Act4Earth Dialogue on green public procurement to deliberate and come forward with solutions for strengthening India’s public procurement ecosystem.
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The photo exhibition "Coal Dependence: Lives in an Extractive Economy", curated as a part of the "Just Transition: Understanding and the Implications of Moving Away from Coal" project supported by the MacArthur Foundation, was held in the Seminar Hall, Ground Floor, TERI, India Habitat Centre on July 25-26, 2024. The exhibition intended to illuminate the lives of communities that are intricately connected to the coal economy, which is at the heart of the just energy transition debate.
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With extensive and rapid urbanization, the need for sustainable infrastructure has become more pronounced than ever. The Sustainable Infrastructure Programme aims at creating innovative solutions for low-environmental impact infrastructure development by facilitating and integrating the principles of smart, sustainable, and resilient buildings, inclusive cities and robust transport systems to proliferate action-oriented outcomes in the built environment
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The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), with support from the IKEA Foundation, has undertaken a unique multi-year program called “Sustainable energy in Micro-enterprises for Income & Livelihood Enhancement (SMILE).” The main objective of this initiative is to promote the use of renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies in micro-enterprise clusters, thereby improving productivity, enhancing the income of entrepreneurs, and ultimately improving their lives and livelihoods.
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The "Capacity Building Programme Targeting School Children on Climate Change, Health, and Hygiene across 11 Districts of Uttar Pradesh" is a project run by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) with support from United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). It reached 27,000 students in 162 schools across 137 villages, aligning with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3, 6, and 13 to improve public health and raise community awareness.
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Recognising the need for awareness and education of energy efficiency in this growing energy crisis, BSES introduced the programme Energy Wise Energy Rise (EWER) in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in 2018. This educational initiative aims to engage students from classes 6 to 8 in environmental issues. Since its inception, EWER has reached 90,000 students across 300 schools in South and West Delhi, including 30,000 students in 100 schools under its third phase in year 2024.
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Take 3, a short video, features in-house experts who answer three questions on current developments. The topic picked this month was Green Budgeting.
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In this edition of Take 3, Dr Shailly Kedia, Associate Director, TERI, discusses how governments are increasingly adopting green budgets to achieve their environmental goals amidst the backdrop of climate change.
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The applications for the World Sustainable Development Summit 2025 are now open. The 24th edition will have the theme 'Partnerships for Accelerating Sustainable Development and Climate Solutions'
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TERI’s flagship initiative ‘GREEN Olympiad 2024’ aims to test the environmental quotient of students and enhance their understanding of issues related to the environment and sustainable development. It is open for students of Std. 4 to 12.
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Hack4Agri is a unique project that engages the youth of Karnataka to ideate, innovate, incubate and implement scalable solutions to address post-harvest losses in the agricultural sector.
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‘FT Energy Transition Summit India’ will bring together senior policy-makers, global investors, and leaders from the Indian and international energy, metals and manufacturing sectors from October 8-9, 2024. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is the Supporting Partner for the event.
Avail 20% discount by using code TERI
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