Projects

Projects

Mapping Policies and Stakeholders on Climate Adaptation for Crop-Based Systems in the Global South

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Resource Efficiency & Governance

Climate change posed a serious challenge to the agriculture systems not only given its implications for food security and livelihoods but also given the current agrarian distress characterized by declining growth rates in yield, depleting soil fertility, and receding groundwater resources, rising cultivation costs, and inflation.

Enabling Cities to Implement Innovative Sustainable Urban Solutions

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Sustainable Habitat | Climate Change

India is on the cusp of urbanisation with around 34% of the country’s population currently living in cities and a rate of urbanisation higher than most South Asian countries. By 2030, it is expected that 40% of India’s population will be living in urban areas, contributing to more than two-thirds of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Urban Farming in Navi Mumbai Eco-City

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Sustainable Habitat

Eco–city broadly means a human settlement modelled on the self–sustaining structure and functioning of natural ecosystems. It is developed on the lines of integrated urban planning and management programmes addressing social and ecological health of the city.

Air Pollution Source Apportionment Study at Kanhia Open Cast Coal Mine Area, Odisha

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Air

Study on the future carbon market in India

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Energy Efficiency

The main objectives are to: • Organise a series of interviews with Indian CDM project participants TERI would arrange 5-6 meetings (online zoom) with Indian CDM project participants. Project participants would be nominated after consultation with IGES. • Analyse views on the future CDM market in India.

Banana fiber extraction by mycogenic pectinase and surface modification through laccase enzymes thereafter - an eco-friendly approach

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project

Enzymatic retting and processing of banana fibers with mycogenic pectinase supported by standardization of effective surface modification treatments parameter through mycogenic laccase enzymes will results in solution of simple processing and their utilization perspective as renewable fiber sources to open the ways for industrial areas of uses.

Environmental consultancy for Diesel Locomotive Emission Standards Project for Indian Railways

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Climate Change | Environment

The objective of the project was to develop emission standards for PM and gaseous pollutants from diesel locomotives.

Climate policy assessment and Mitigation Modelling to Integrate national and global Transition pathways (COMMIT)

December 22, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Environment

The Paris Agreement's central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping global temperature increase well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Research Centre

December 1, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Sustainable Agriculture

The TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Centre, a collaboration between TERI and Deakin University, Australia has been working on using nanobiotechnology to provide sustainable agriculture solutions

Endocrine Disruptors in Indian Food: minimizing children exposure and fostering a safer space for agriculture and food market (EDIFY)

December 1, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Environment | Sustainable Agriculture | Environment and Public Health

The main objectives of this project are to: i) conduct a comprehensive assessment of exposure of the Indian population to endocrine disrupting substances (EDS)through the diet (food and water); ii) assess climate and anthropological drivers controlling levels of EDS in drinking water and agricultural products;