Inaugural session

Opening remarks
Dr R K Pachauri [pdf]
Director-General TERI

Welcome remarks
Dr Georges Valentis
Managing Director, Veolia Environment Institute
Dr Laurence Tubiana
Director, IDDRI

Special remarks
Dr A Ramachandran
Chairman, TERI Governing Council

Keynote address
Mrs Rohini Nilekani
Chairperson, Arghyam Foundation

Vote of thanks

Chair
Dr R K Pachauri
Director-General, TERI

Keynote speech
Dr Diwesh N Sharan [pdf]
Principal Economist (Infrastructure), Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank

Thematic session I (continued)

Paper presentations
Chair
Dr J Gururaja
Former Senior Technical Advisor, United Nations Department for Economic & Social Affairs (UNDESA)

A critical appraisal of energy resource policies vis-à-vis development and growth in Northeast India
Dr Chandan Mahanta [pdf]
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India

Energy shortfalls and system nutrient decline: an integrated research approach for addressing problems on the environment-poverty interface
Dr Laura German [pdf]
African Highlands Initiative, Uganda

Ingredients for success in India’s biomass industry
Ms Dawn Lippert
Yale University, United States
Dr V V N Kishore [pdf]
TERI, India

Women, economic development, and the environment
Dr Ruth Nabinta [pdf]
Adult Education and Social Development Institute, Nigeria

Utilization of sustainable energy systems for productive purposes in rural areas: the case of Benin Republic
Mr Kevo Luc Tussou [pdf]
Department of Energy, Benin

Panel discussion

Chair
Dr Leena Srivastava
Executive Director, TERI

Panelists
Dr J Gururaja
Former Senior Technical Advisor, UNDESA

Mr Jean Jaujay [pdf]
Senior manager, Energy Access Programme, Electricite de France (EDF)

Dr Ananth Chikkatur [pdf]
Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Mr Emiel van Sambeek
ECN Policy Studies, The Netherlands

Mr Khalid Semmaoui [pdf]
General Manager, TEMASOL

Dr Moinul Sharif
Programme Officer, Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development (GNESD), Denmark

Chair
Dr A Ramachandran
Chairman, TERI Governing Council

Keynote speech
Prof. Emil Salim [pdf]
Former Minister for Population and Environment, Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation, Indonesia

Paper presentations

Chair
Ambassador C Dasgupta
Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Personal choices and associated emissions: Are "modern"lifestyles really sustainable?
Ritu Mathur [pdf]
TERI

Travel demand management: a sustainable policy option for transportation induced climate change in developing countries
Mr Joshua Odeleye [pdf]
Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology, Nigeria

A proposal to shift to using yearlong daylight saving time in India
Prof. Dilip Ahuja
Prof. D P Sen Gupta [pdf]
National Institute of Advanced Studies, India

Sustaining energy and resource use in groundwater: an optimal control model for scenario generation
Dr Farhet Shaheen [pdf]
India

Need for cost effective cold storage and solar energy penetration in the Indian food production and processing sector
Mr I Thanumoorthi [pdf]
TERI, India

Thematic session II (continued)

Panel discussion

Chair
Ambassador C Dasgupta
Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Panelists
Dr Daniel Cukierman [pdf]
Development Manager, Veolia Transport

Prof. Nicolas Gravel [pdf]
Research Fellow, Centre de Science Humaines (Delhi) and IDEP-GREQAM

Prof. Zhou Hongchun [pdf]
Division Director, Department of Social Development, Development Research Centre of the State Council, China

Ms Sylvia Lorek [pdf]
Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Germany

Mr S Sundar [pdf]
Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Dr Zhao Xingshu [pdf]
Research Center for Sustainable Development, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Paper presentations

Chair
Dr Georges Valentis
Managing Director, VEI

Climate change and the challenge to achievement of Millennium Development Goals in the developing countries
Dr Sarah Ahmed [pdf]
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India

Impacts of water and food security on human health in the mining region
Ms Melba D’Souza [pdf]
India

Threats to biodiversity conservation: vulnerable livelihoods and illegal resource extraction in the Royal Bardia National Park, Nepal
Ms Shova Thapa [pdf]
Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Pilot study of household energy, indoor air pollution and health: assessment in households from four different regions in India
Dr R Uma
Mr Santhosh Raghavan [pdf]
TERI, India

Paper presentation (continued)

Chair
Dr Georges Valentis
Managing Director, VEI

Social carbon – adding value to sustainable development and renewable energy projects
Mr Divaldo Rezende [pdf]
Instituto Ecológica, Brazil

The human dimensions of forest change: observations from the air and on the ground
Dr Harini Nagendra [pdf]
Indiana University and ATREE, India

Thematic session III (continued)

Panel discussion
Prof. Akio Morishima [pdf]
Chair of the Board of Directors, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan

Panelists
Dr Q K Ahmad [pdf]
Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad

Ms Preety Bhandari [pdf]
Director, Policy Analysis Division, TERI

Dr Jean-Marie Gugenheim [pdf]
Deputy General Manager, Veolia Water, Africa- Middle East - Indian Subcontinent

Mrs Rohini Nilekani
Chairperson, Arghyam Foundation

Dr Ambuj Sagar [pdf]
Senior Research Associate, John F Kennedy School of Government, and Assistant Dean for Strategic Planning, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Paper presentation
Chair
Prof Y K Alagh
Former Minister of Power, and Science and Technology, Government of India

Industrial ecology and environmental priorities
Dr Ramesh Ramaswamy [pdf]
Resource Optimization Initiative, India

Dignity through electricity for rural under-privileged
Mr Jasjeet Singh Chaddah and  Mr Kama Krishna [pdf]
Grameen Surya Bijlee Foundation, India

Measurement of energy price induced technological change: a directional distance function approach
Dr Surender Kumar [pdf]
TERI University, India

Developing an economic value chain model for energy and livelihood security of the rural poor in India
Ms Kumudhini Ravindra and Dr Anjula Gurtoo [pdf]
Indian Institute of Science, India

Thematic session IV (continued)

Panel discussion

Chair
Prof Y K Alagh
Former Minister of Power, and Science and Technology, Government of India

Panelist
Mr Raj Chengappa
Managing Editor, India Today

Dr Hans Eerens [pdf]
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands

Dr Laurence Tubiana [pdf]
Director, IDDRI

Dr Vinod Vyasulu
Secretary, Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, Bangalore

Chair
Eric Godelier
Director of Research, Management Research Centre (CRG), Ecole Polytechnique, France

Paper presentations

Fuel cell operated reverse osmosis desalination system
Dr Najem Al Najem [pdf]
Kuwait University, Kuwait *

Knowledge sharing and development of linkages for technology development, dissemination, and concomitant social action in small and micro enterprises
Mr Abhishek Nath [pdf]
TERI, India

Status of implementation of the Clean Development Mechanism in Brazil
Ms Kamyla Cunha [pdf]
University of Campinas, Brazil

Methanogenesis of in-situ coal: a leapfrogging technology for sustainable energy extraction from non-extractable coal deposits
Mr Umesh Prasad Singh [pdf]
Coal India Ltd, India

Thematic session V (continued)

Chair
Dr Diwesh N Sharan
Principal Economist (Infrastructure), Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank

Keynote speech
Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Panel discussion
Prof. Eric Godelier
Director of Research, Management Research Centre (CRG), Ecole Polytechnique, France

Panelists
Dr Ananth Chikkatur [pdf]
Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Dr Pierre Jaboyedoff [pdf]
SORANE SA and SDC Consultant

Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Dr Ajay Mathur
Director-General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, India

Dr Saswinadi Sasmojo [pdf]
Director, Del Polytechnic of Informatics, Indonesia

Thematic session VI: Revitalizing research and development
This session will address such questions as how effective the R&D institutions have been in servicing growth patterns in Asia, how the educational system would move to a satisfactory level of R & D and innovation. This session will broadly aim to arrive at a roadmap for developing countries in general to move them towards higher S & T capacities and actions for sustainable development.

Chair
S Sundar
Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Panelists
Prof Shuichiro Asao [pdf]
Project Professor, AGS Promotion Office, University of Tokyo

Dr R K Pachauri
Director-General, TERI

Dr A K Vora
Former Managing Director, Tata BP Solar

Prof Wei Zhihong [pdf]
Tsinghua University, Beijing

Mr Kentaro Toyama
Group Leader, Technologies for Emerging Markets, Microsoft Research India

1600-1730

1600-1620

Concluding session

Special Remarks
Dr R K Pachauri [pdf] [pdf]
Director-General, TERI

Release of “GREEN India 2047 Renewed: Looking Back to Change Track”

Concluding remarks

Dr Georges Valentis
Managing Director, IVE
Dr Laurence Tubiana
Director, IDDRI