Opinion

Monsoon Meltdown | Why Guwahati must adapt before it’s too late

17 Sep 2025 |

| Ms Shreya Gupta, TERI

| Deccan Herald

Community monitoring and smarter infrastructure can turn Guwahati’s flood response from reactive to proactive, writes Ms Shreya Gupta, Research Associate, Transport & Urban Governance Division, TERI.

Justice in climate cooperation: Restoring common but differentiated duties

15 Sep 2025 |

| Mr Nitin Desai, TERI

| Business Standard

Effective climate action requires the restoration of common but differentiated responsibilities, based on differences in per capita emission rates, writes Mr Nitin Desai, Chairman, TERI.

Power shift: India’s renewable revolution rewrites the energy script

13 Sep 2025 |

| Mr AK Saxena and Dr Arunendra Kumar Tiwari, TERI

| 360 Info.org

From modest beginnings, India has now built one of the world’s largest renewable energy markets, with solar leading the way, write Mr AK Saxena, Senior Director and Dr Arunendra Kumar Tiwari, Fellow, Electricity & Renewables Division, TERI.

Public trust key to India’s nuclear push

29 Aug 2025 |

| Mr K Ramanathan and Dr Arunendra Kumar Tiwari, TERI.

| The Tribune

Radioactive waste, with its millennia-long hazard profile, is a persistent worry, write Mr K Ramanathan, Distinguished Fellow and Dr Arunendra Kumar Tiwari, Associate Fellow, Electricity & Renewables Division, TERI.

Can India Take the Lead in Green Steel?

28 Aug 2025 |

| Mr Will Hall

| Outlook Business

India's booming steel sector, low-cost renewables and green hydrogen push create a unique opportunity to pioneer competitive green steel technologies at scale, writes Mr Will Hall, Visiting Fellow, Industrial Energy Efficiency Division, TERI.

Global REDD+ standards fail local forests

20 Aug 2025 |

Mr Sayanta Ghosh

Dr Jitendra Vir Sharma

| Mongabay India

Unlocking India’s REDD+ potential would channel climate finance into one of the most diverse forest estates, benefiting millions of forest-dependent people and meeting climate goals, write Mr Sayanta Ghosh, Associate Fellow and Dr Jitendra Vir Sharma, Senior Director, Land Resources Division, TERI.

Global climate failure: COP30 must push developed nations on mitigation

19 Aug 2025 |

| Mr Nitin Desai

| Business Standard

At COP 30 this November, the primary goal must be to increase pressure on developed countries to move faster and more credibly on climate mitigation, writes Mr Nitin Desai, Chairman, TERI.

Rivers have a right to flow

08 Aug 2025 |

| Dr SK Sarkar, TERI and Dr Girija K Bharat, Mu Gamma Consultants

| The Statesman

With rising urbanization, unregulated development, and outdated flood management strategies, the damage caused by floods has intensified posing severe threats to human lives, infrastructure and the environment, write Dr SK Sarkar, Distinguished Fellow, Water Resources Division, TERI and Dr Girija K Bharat, Managing Director, Mu Gamma Consultants.

Delhi’s Russian oil dilemma

04 Aug 2025 |

Mr Saswata Chaudhury

| 360 Info.org

Indian refiners are at high risk due to US penalty threats and the EU's new sanctions on exports made from Russian crude, writes Dr Saswata Chaudhury, Senior Fellow, Energy Assessment & Modelling Division, TERI.

Powering Viksit Bharat: The new solar frontier

31 Jul 2025 |

Mr Ajay Shankar

| ET EnergyWorld

India's power regulation is not just cutting costs-it's reshaping the roadmap to a fossil-free, developed economy writes, Mr Ajay Shankar, Distinguished Fellow, Electricity and Renewables Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).