Projects

Completed Projects

Impacts of Electrification with Renewable Energies on Local Economies: The Case of India's Rural Areas

October 1, 2012 to
June 30, 2013

The purposes of this research are firstly to clarify an overall impact of rural electrification with renewable energies on local economies such as on employment, income, newly-developed industries, living standards, and poverty reduction, and secondly to identify significant impacts among them.

HighNoon: adaptation to changing water resources availability in northern India with Himalayan glacier retreat and changing monsoon pattern

May 1, 2009 to
June 24, 2013
The HighNoon approach and objectives
The principal aim of the project is to assess the impact of Himalayan glaciers retreat and possible changes of the Indian summer monsoon on the spatial and temporal distribution of water resources in Northern India and to provide recommendations for appropriate and efficient response strategies that strengthen the cause for adaptation to hydrological extreme events.

Objectives

To integrate available climate- and hydrological data, and state-of-the art regional models

Country level electronic waste management strategy for the Royal Kingdom of Bhutan

April 1, 2011 to
June 17, 2013
The Royal Kingdom of Bhutan has placed environmental conservation at the core of it's development strategy and the country is recognized as one of the few countries in the world with specific constitutional obligation to preserve the environment Bhutan¿s enviable reputation in environment conservation thus far is testimony of its commitment of pursuing sustainable development based on the philosophy of Gross National Happiness.

TERI Yale US-India Energy Partnership Summit 2010: Policies and Technologies for Energy Security

June 28, 2010 to
June 11, 2013
The summit is meant to aid in expanded collaboration between US and India on climate and energy in the government, business, NGO, and academic sectors.

TERI and WRI Joint Introductory Workshop on The New Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Accounting Standards in India

February 1, 2012 to
June 11, 2013

TERI in partnership with the World Resources Institute (WRI) has embarked upon a Programme in India to build capacity on corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting with the use of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) standards. The program will explore linking energy-efficiency improvements with GHG emission reductions and help companies gain additional understanding of their GHG-related risks and opportunities.

TERI Environmental Survey 2013

October 1, 2012 to
June 5, 2013

The TERI Environmental Survey is assessing at people’s perception, behaviour, awareness and opinion towards the environment (air, water, waste and waste management, climate change, forest/green cover and cleanliness and health of surrounding areas). The study is being conducted in the six most populous cities in India (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata).

Sensitization, Education and Awareness on Recycling for a Cleaner Habitat

July 2, 2012 to
May 31, 2013

Project SEARCH is a school environment education programme that aims to raise awareness amongst school students, teachers, school community and the society at large on the issue of waste. The idea is to encourage the young students and teachers to practice the 4Rs – refuse, reuse, reduce and recycle – in their daily lives and to make consumption choices that would ensure the sustainability of the planet in the years to come.

YUVA (Youth Unite for Voluntary Action) Meet 2013

October 1, 2012 to
May 31, 2013

YUVA Meet is an anuual youth meet that provide college students and youth participants from across the world a platform to discuss, deliberate and debate on issuses related to Sustainable Development.
The YUVA Meet 2013 will be held from 28-29 January 2013 at New Delhi on the theme, ‘Green Growth – Preparing Youth for Sustainable Living’.

Preparation of baseline document on fly ash utilization and safe management in agriculture and waste land development

September 28, 2010 to
May 26, 2013
The project aims to prepare a baseline document for fly ash utilization/ safe management in agriculture and waste land development. In order to learn to use fly ash more efficiently and effectively, information comprising current scenarios in R&D, application, forthcoming technologies must be documented in a way that makes them readily accessible to everyone in the field - industries, academia, governments, etc both in regional and global perspectives.

Independent energy production assessment from wind farm in Maharashtra

October 12, 2012 to
May 10, 2013

The objective of this project is to carry out independent annual energy assessment for a 90-MW wind power plant in Maharashtra using WAsP (a program for predicting wind climates, wind resources and power productions from wind turbines and wind farms). In this assessment various plant loss factors and uncertainty of estimations will be considered and probability of exceedances at P50, P75, P90 and P95 will be calculated.