Publications
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
Methodology for Determining Minimum Support Price for Minor Forest Produce in India
Research Paper
| September 6, 2018
Minor Forest Produce obtained from forests are a crucial commercial resource in the lives oftribals and other forest dwelling communities. More than 100 million rural people depend on the sale of minor forest produce for their livelihoods. These communities are legally empowered with governance of forests as well as ownership of the resource. Yet, not only do the communities remain impoverished, but also the unsustainable harvest of the resource from forests is a major cause of ecological stress.
Economics, Finance, and the Private Sector
Research Paper
| September 6, 2018
Since cities are the locus of large and rapid socioeconomic development around the world, economic factors will continue to shape urban responses to climate change. To exploit response opportunities, promote synergies among actions, and reduce conflicts, socioeconomic development must be integrated with climate change planning and policies. Public-sector finance can facilitate action, and public resources can be used to generate investment by the private sector. But private-sector contributions to mitigation and adaptation should extend beyond financial investment.
Enabling India's energy transition towards low-carbon pathways
Article
| August 28, 2018
Electricity, transport, and industry will be key enablers