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Lighting up Futures
01 Dec 2013
| ECO (Earth Care Optimised)
In an interview with ECO, Mr Ashish Jindal, TERI, shares his thoughts on the need for and implementation of energy efficiency, which, he believes, has the potential to protect the environment and create a healthy, green predicament for present and future generations.
Read moreVice President of India to inaugurate International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) 2013
19 Nov 2013
| India Education Diary
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) will be organizing the International Conference on Digital Libraries from 27th-29th November 2013 at the India Habitat Centre. The ICDL 2013 is entitled 'Vision 2020: Looking back 10 years and Forging New Frontiers'.
Invest little to ward off cold, save energy
18 Nov 2013
| The Times of India
Ms Mili Majumdar, Director, Sustainable Habitat, TERI, has monitored some houses in Dehradun which have a sustainable design. They found a difference of four degrees in these houses - which is quite a lot.
Read moreEfficient buildings can help cut emissions
16 Nov 2013
| The Hindu (Bangalore edition)
Bangalore has witnessed a 37 per cent decadal population growth spurring an 'exponential' construction rate, Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, has said. Urban growth in Bangalore, the country's third most populous city, has been 'haphazard' and put pressure on both energy and water resources, said Dr Pachauri, in his inaugural address through video conference at the GRIHA Regional Conference, 'Innovations in sustainable buildings'. GRIHA is a national rating system that evaluates
Read moreSeminar at Gitam on Nanobiotech
15 Nov 2013
| The New Indian Express (Hyd),
To apprise students about the upcoming trends in nanobiotechnology, GITAM University is organising a two-day national seminar on 17-18 December 2013. Experts in the field like Dr Alok Adholeya from TERI, New Delhi, Dr Madhusudhan Rao from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Prof. D N Rao from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences were among those who will participate in the seminar.
Read moreConference on innovations in buildings
13 Nov 2013
| The Hindu
'Innovations in buildings', the 4th GRIHA regional conference on sustainable habitats will be held in Bangalore from 15 November. The two-day conference has been organised by Association for Development and Research on Sustainable Habitats (ADaRSH) and TERI. This conference will deliberate on green cities and sustainable tourism among other issues.
Read moreIntellectual Property Rights with Pachauri
12 Nov 2013
| The Verb (The Huffington Post)
In an interview with The Verb, Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General of TERI, has called for greater collaboration between organisations from all over the world in the development of new technologies to tackle the challenge of climate change. Dr Pachauri also called for developing countries to take on more responsibility for resolving the challenges posed by intellectual property rights when it comes to technology transfer.
Read moreAutonomous body may now audit water usage
07 Nov 2013
| The Times of India
Referring to figures showing how the country is gradually staring at a water crisis, participants at the second India Water Forum-organized by TERI in association with water resources and other central ministries-pitched for adopting new technologies like drip and sprinkler irrigation at a wider scale to conserve water in agriculture. Calling for an urgent action to deal with the situation through 'water use efficiency', Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, emphasized on looking at the
Read moreTERI University wins the 'Greenest University and Research Institution' award for 2013
07 Nov 2013
| Web Newswire
TERI University, instituted by TERI, has won the 'Greenest University and Research Institution' award in a competitive assessment, edging out other prestigious global institutions like Copenhagen University, Denmark, University of Plymouth, UK, Deakin University, Australia, and Unity College, Maine, USA, among others. The award is one amongst ten inaugural Climate Change Awards organized by Responding to Climate Change (RTCC) - a news and analysis website.
Read moreYes Bank, TERI-BCSD launch knowledge paper
29 Oct 2013
| India Blooms
Private sector bank Yes Bank along with TERI BCSD has launched a knowledge paper on the challenges of harnessing energy in a cleaner manner, titled 'Low Carbon Industrial growth in India' at the Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development.
Read morePresident Pranab Mukherjee pitches for stricter regulation to conserve water
28 Oct 2013
| The Economic Times
Amid prediction of acute water shortage in the country by 2050 due to limited potential of 'utilizable' quantity of this resource, President Pranab Mukherjee called for a broad over-arching 'national legal framework' to deal with the situation and appealed the users to work for cutting down wastage. He was speaking after inaugurating the second 'India Water Forum' (IWF), which is being organized by TERI in association with different central ministries, including ministry of water resources,
Freak weather offshoot of climate change: experts
25 Oct 2013
| The Times of India
Intermittent showers in Hyderabad have flummoxed Met officials, while climate change experts said it is increasingly becoming difficult to predict future weather events in the country, considering how ambiguous the weather systems are turning out to be. The changes could be offshoots of climate change and global warming, the experts said. Terming rains in Hyderabad during this time of the year as unusual; Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal are also getting rainfall, but due to the after-