Completed Projects
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.
Assessment of Toll Booth Plaza Workers' Exposure to Traffic Pollutants and its Resultant Effect on Lung Functions
February 1, 2012 to
April 30, 2013
| Health & Nutrition
| Environment
| Transport
The project would assess the exposure of toll booth workers to traffic related pollutants. A Comparison of health effects on toll booth workers with less exposed control group would be undertaken. A variety of respiratory parameters would be measured to meet this objective.
Policy and regulatory issues in the context of large-scale grid integration of renewable energy in Gujarat
September 2, 2011 to
April 30, 2013
Large-scale grid integration of RE (renewable energy) power brings in a number of issues pertaining to policy, technical and regulatory in nature especially in case of intermittent sources like wind and solar. Generation mix in a grid should be such that it not only follows the load pattern but also responds to the sudden load changes. Increased share of intermittent power poses difficulty in grid operation. Further sudden changes in power flow in EHT transmission lines could also happen.
Identification of Win-Win Adaptation Options through Adaptation Metrics and Integrated Adaptation Decision-Making Frameworks
June 7, 2012 to
April 23, 2013
The current status of climate change adaptation is characterized by ad-hoc decision-making mechanisms without a means to measure the progress in adaptive capacity of people and systems under question. Effective adaptation is best achieved by knowing beforehand the possible impact of adaptation otpions on the adaptive capacity of the system under consideration.
Pre-project: Climate Change as an Opportunity towards Adaptive Sustainable Aquaculture
January 1, 2011 to
April 5, 2013
The main objective in this pre-project is to build a holistic and integrated knowledge base that enables a quantitative analysis of the dynamic two way itneractions between climate change and aquaculture sector in a future full-project.This objective will be addressed through the following three main work packages. (1) Climate change impacts on aquaculture; (2) Aquaculture impacts on climate change; (3) Formulating future adaptive strategies.
Bioleaching of heavy metals from spent catalyst used in petroleum refineries and scale-up studies
May 18, 2010 to
April 2, 2013
Bioleaching of metals like Ni, Mo, V from spent petroleum refinery catalyst using Acidiiobacillus thioxidans which utilizes sulfur to produce sulfuric acid and metabolites which enhances the leaching process of metals from the catalyst matrix.Scoping Study on Fostering Resource Efficiency in India - A key for sustainable growth
September 15, 2012 to
April 1, 2013
The aim of the study was to understand the rationale and scope for promoting resource efficiency in India. The focus of the study was particularly on minerals and metals. The study looked into the current and future patterns of primary and secondary production and consumption of minerals and metals in India. The study also analyzed existing policies and schemes to understand India's approach to resource efficiency and the relevance of 3R concept for India's economy.
Preparation of Project Identification Form (PIF) and Project Preparation Grant (PPG) Documents for the Demonstration and Promotion of Biomass-based Power Plants in Sierra Leone
August 7, 2012 to
March 31, 2013
The project activity is to describe the baseline power scenario in Sierra Leone and prepare the detailed product identification form (PIF) and project preparation grant (PPG) document for biomass power project promotion in Sierra Leone. The activity includes:
Identification of the need for the project;
Identification and detailing of the project component, expected output, and outcomes for each component;
Estimation of indicative total budget and expected GEF Grant and co-financing components;