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A promising approach to tackling Delhi's persistent air pollution is the concept of airshed management, which views air pollution as a regional challenge, says Mr R Suresh, Senior Fellow and Area Convenor, Air Quality Research Division, TERI.
It appears to have bypassed the principles of equitable burden sharing and climate justice, having failed to have recognised the financial needs of the global south, says Dr Ritu Mathur, Senior Fellow and Director and Dr Sanchit Saran Agarwal, Associate Fellow, Energy Assessment & Modelling Division, TERI.
India's homegrown Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) system aligns with the nation's commitment to sustainable building standards with over 1700 GRIHA -rated projects. With the updated Energy Conservation and Sustainable Building Code Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) is a natural fit within the evolving regulatory framework, enabling compliance while promoting RE adoption in urban environments, says Dr. Pierluigi Bonomo, SUPSI; Mr. C K Varma, CPWD; Prof. Francesco Frontini, ISAAC; Ms Hemakshi Malik, Research Associate, TERI.
Tests in actual situations have found that air purifiers typically achieve a maximum PM removal efficiency of 70 percent to 75 percent, well below the claimed efficiencies says Mr R Suresh, Senior Fellow and Area Convenor, TERI and Mr Dheeraj Mehra, Research Associate, Air Quality Research Division, TERI.
The 29th annual Climate Summit in Azerbaijan reached an impasse as developed and developing nations remained divided over climate finance commitments, says Dr Manish Kumar Shrivastava, Senior Fellow and Associate Director, Earth Science and Climate Change Division, TERI.
The decision on climate finance was supposed to mark a breakthrough, yet it instead underscored the growing chasm between the rhetoric of equity and the reality of exclusion, says Dr Shailly Kedia, Senior Fellow and Associate Director, Sustainable Development and Outreach Division, TERI.
The conference can demonstrate that climate action does not have to come at the expense of development, says Mr Sayanta Ghosh, Associate Fellow and Area Convenor; Dr Jitendra Vir Sharma, Senior Director, Land Resources Division, TERI.
The growth boom in manufacturing that India experienced following the shift of focus from public sector to the private sector was driven more by market-friendly than business-friendly interventions, says Mr Nitin Desai, Chairman, TERI.
If timely climate investments are not made, the stability of the global economic order itself may be prone to climate-induced risks, says Dr Manish Kumar Shrivastava, Senior Fellow & Associate Director, Earth Science and Climate Change Division, TERI.
Under India's target of 50% of non-fossil based energy capactity (500 GW) by 2030 as part of NDC commitment, the deployment of solar energy is expected to provide around 280 GW in which the deployment of large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) is envisaged, notes Dr Vibha Dhawan, Director General, TERI.