Publications

A Goa village that strives to protect the fast-vanishing 'Khazans'

Article
| October 3, 2018

Paddy fields in khazansKhazan ecosystems are reclaimed wetlands and mangrove areas, where tidal influence is regulated by the construction of embankments and sluice gates. 'Khazans' in Goa have always been nature's defence to its own excesses such as high tides, storms or floods. They are predominantly rice and fish fields.

Towards COP24: From Bangkok to Katowice

Article
| September 26, 2018

For successful implementation of the Paris Agreement, issues frustrating developing and developed nations must be resolved; political trade-offs may provide an answer

'Infusion of capital required to accelerate transition to renewable energy in India'

Article
| September 26, 2018

Experts discuss India's need to reconcile its development imperatives with environmental sustainability, at Climate Week NYC

Transcending the challenges: Provisioning universal access to electricity

Article
| September 17, 2018

Bridging the electricity access gap has necessitated innovation in terms of product design, business models, service delivery systems, tariffs, financial instruments, and capacity building strategies

Right to clean environment has emerged as a new human right in India: Dr Ajay Mathur

Article
| September 12, 2018

The Director General, TERI, gave a public address on 'Clean environment as a Human Right: Exploring synergies between the environment, SDGs, and human rights' at the Silver Jubilee Lecture of the NHRC, in New Delhi on 10th September

How safe is the water that is supplied in our homes?

Article
| September 11, 2018

Understanding groundwater contamination in India - Conversation with Anshuman, Associate Director, Water Resources, TERI

Delhi and Pune municipal solid waste treatment plants – learnings for other cities

Article
| September 11, 2018

TERI recently implemented a project in partnership with Climate and Clean Air Coalition (waste initiative) to reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) from the municipal solid waste sector.

Greening the solar PV value chain

Policy brief
| September 7, 2018

A report on opportunities for resource saving along the value chain in the solar PV sector

Towards resource efficient electric vehicle sector in India

Policy brief
| September 7, 2018

A report on resource efficiency in India's EV sector

Green Growth Intervention on Employment Generation in India: Dynamic CGE Model Approach

Research Paper
| September 7, 2018

This article highlights the possible impacts of green growth strategies and interventions on skilled and unskilled employment generation in India. Additionally, it indicates how income generation from selected green growth-related potential interventions can have a ripple effect on selected development indicators, like literacy rates, infant mortality rates, poverty. Job creation might translate to an economic gain for households of different income class across rural and urban India both in the short