Publications

Non-CO2 Emission Reduction Pathways for Madhya Pradesh: A Multi-Sectoral Assessment

Policy brief
| September 23, 2026

Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) and other non-CO₂ air pollutants play a significant role in driving near-term climate change and worsening air quality, with direct implications for public health, agriculture, and ecosystems. While carbon dioxide remains the principal focus of long-term climate mitigation efforts, pollutants such as methane, black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons, and tropospheric ozone offer important opportunities for achieving faster climate benefits through targeted emission reductions.

Scoping Study on India’s Tyre Industry: Potential, Challenges & Recommendations

Policy brief
| September 23, 2026

India’s road transport system is expanding rapidly, driven by sustained economic growth, urbanization, nationwide expressway development, rising freight movement, and increasing vehicle ownership. Heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs)—specifically trucks and buses—consume nearly 70 per cent of India’s diesel and represent a major source of transport emissions (TERI, 2022). As India works to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, advanced tyre technologies have emerged as a critical yet underutilized lever to improve fuel efficiency, enhance road safety, and curb emissions.

Modeling for Climate Finance: India’s Climate and Energy Frontiers

Policy brief
| September 23, 2026

The scale and ambition of India’s mitigation and adaptation efforts are closely tied to the availability, accessibility, and effective deployment of climate finance. Mobilizing and channeling finance, from both domestic and international sources, is central to achieving India’s climate commitments under the Paris Agreement while aligning them with broader development priorities. This underscores the need for robust analytical frameworks that can systematically examine the complex interplay between climate action, financial flows, and economic development.

Chemical composition of sedimentary organic carbon differs significantly between the intact and restored mangroves in the Philippines

Research Paper
| September 22, 2026

Mangroves store a large amount of organic carbon (OC) within the sediment to a depth of a meter or beyond. Nevertheless, little information is available about the difference in chemical composition of sedimentary OC in young restored versus old intact forests.

Challenges of illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries in Indian waters: Plausible mitigation measures

Research Paper
| September 15, 2026

Marine fisheries sector provides not only a major source of high-quality animal protein but also ensures food security for fish-consuming populations at reasonable costs. With ~200000 fishing crafts, including mechanised, motorised, and nonmotorized crafts, marine fishing, landing, and sales activities employ close to 4 million fisherfolk in recent years. India, with a mainland coast length of over 7000 km and 3000 km of island coastline, is among the top 10 marine fishing nations in the world.

Transport sector emissions and decarbonization pathways for Viksit Bharat 2047 and Net Zero 2070

Research Paper
| September 14, 2026

India’s transport system is central to economic development: it connects production centres with markets, enables labour mobility, supports urbanisation, and strengthens national integration. Yet the sector’s developmental role is accompanied by the dual challenges – rising carbon and energy-security. As per estimates, transport sector contributes about 5 percent of India’s gross value added, while accounting for a much larger share – around 12 percent – of energy-related CO2 emissions.

When Risk Stops Looking Normal: Lessons from the Nepal Floods

Article
| August 31, 2026

The Nepal floods are a reminder that the world we are designing for is becoming less comfortable with our assumptions of normality. We should continue improving our ability to observe and model glaciers, slopes, rivers and weather.

Carbon Sequestration by Seaweed is Not a Straightforward Pathway

Article
| August 25, 2026

Unlike conventional blue carbon's ecosystems like mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass meadows, seaweed largely occupies rocky, high-energy intertidal and subtidal substrates where there is no accumulating sediment column.

Battery Assembly and Container Testing: Safety, Global Best Practices and Way Forward

Policy brief
| August 11, 2026

India’s energy transition is entering a crucial phase of rapid battery energy storage deployment. This shift is driven by an ambitious national non-fossil capacity target of 500 GW by 2030 and the escalating need to integrate variable renewable energy while maintaining grid reliability. The Central Electricity Authority’s National Electricity Plan (NEP 2023) projects that national energy storage requirements will surge from 82.37 GWh in 2026–27 to 411.4 GWh by 2031–32, which includes 236.22 GWh of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).

SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY FOR INDUSTRIAL DECARBONIZATION

Policy brief
| August 5, 2026

India’s commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2070 hinges significantly on industrial decarbonization. Because replacing fossil fuels for process heat remains a primary challenge, low-carbon thermal solutions must be rapidly deployed across critical manufacturing operations.To address this gap, TERI has released a new policy brief: “Solar Thermal Energy for Industrial Decarbonization.” The brief focuses on how solar thermal technologies can drive India’s clean energy transition in mid-temperature sub-sectors such as textiles, dairy, pharmaceuticals, and food processing.