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aro Conference on Capacity building and experience sharing for enhancing sustainability in urban India
aro Roundtable on ‘Improving Informal Public Transport in Indian cities’ and release of TERI's film
aro Release of TERI’s film on Informal Public Transport
aro TERI releases policy brief on 'Climate Resilient Infrastructure and Services in Coastal Cities'
aro Webinar on Building Climate Resilient Cities: Innovative Approaches to Overcome Common Challenges
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aro Policy brief on 'Climate Resilient Infrastructure and Services in Coastal Cities'
aro Capacity Building for Building a Sustainable and Smart Urban India
aro Emission inventory of non-methane volatile organic compounds from anthropogenic sources in India
aro 'The virtuous cycle'- Hindu Business Line
aro 'Smooth ride, it ain't'- Financial Chronicle
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aro AMRUT Mission: Mission statement and guidelines
aro Smart Cities: Mission statement and guidelines
aro Urban passenger transport scenarios for Latin America, China and India
aro Urban Transport and Energy Efficiency
aro The Future of Urban Development & Services: Urban Development Recommendations for the Government of India
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aro Delhi government to set up multi-modal authority to expedite transport projects
aro New Andhra capital: Singapore presents master plan to Naidu
aro Skipping BS V may put cars at risk: Bosch
aro Centre okays new housing policy, hikes FAR
aro 100 smart cities will be developed with Rs.50,000 crores: Venkaiah Naidu
aro Six 'solar cities' to be developed in northeast
aro Indian city offers way to beat the heat as 1,786 killed in heat wave
aro Odisha readying climate plan for 2015-20
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TERI empanelled for technical assistance to cities for the Smart Cities Challenge
The Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi launched the Smart Cities Mission on June 25, 2015. With an aim to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of ‘Smart’ Solutions, the Smart Cities Mission will cover 100 cities which will be selected through a City Challenge and each city will get Central funding of Rs 100 crore a year for five years. The Ministry of Urban
TERI empanelled in Govt of India's 100 Smart Cities Mission
Source: http://pmindia.gov.in/
Development (MoUD) has short-listed the consulting firms for providing technical assistance to the 100 cities clustered in 9 geographical regions across India to participate in the Smart Cities Challenge.
TERI in association with Tractebel Engineering SA, Belgium and Avalon Information Systems Pvt Ltd has been short-listed for Regions 1 and 2. The regions include a total of 19 cities from the states of Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi and the Union Territories of Chandigarh and Andaman & Nicobar islands. Over the next few months, the states will choose the consultants through a bidding process.
In addition to the Smart Cities Mission, two other urban development initiatives: Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and Housing for All (Urban) were launched by the Prime Minister.

Read the press release here
View the AMRUT Scheme launch presentations here
View the Smart Cities Scheme launch presentations here
Conference on Capacity building and experience sharing for enhancing sustainability in urban India
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) organised a conference on 'Capacity Building and Experience Sharing for Enhancing Sustainability in Urban India' on June 3, 2015 in New Delhi. This conference was organized to deliberate on specific and important issues on skill building and capacity development in urban local bodies. At this ocassion, a briefing paper prepared by TERI, titled 'Capacity Building for Building a Sustainable and Smart Urban India' was released
Conference on Capacity building and experience sharing for enhancing sustainability in urban India
by Mr Sanjay Kothari, Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India. The conference marked the completion of TERI's capacity building program on 'Urban Climate Change Resilience in India' supported by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). The program was conducted in four states in India, namely Uttarakhand, Goa, Odisha and Maharashtra, targeting the elected representatives and municipal officials from various urban local bodies.

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Read the briefing paper here
Roundtable on 'Improving Informal Public Transport in Indian cities'
TERI organized a Round Table on June 24, 2015 to share the findings of its recently completed study on ‘Improving Informal public transport systems in Indian cities’. The study was supported by the Department for International Development (DFID), Government of United Kingdom (UK). The main objective was to study informal public transport systems in five Indian cities in order to understand their role,
Roundtable on 'Improving Informal Public Transport in Indian cities'
contribution, operational characteristics and key issues related to their operations. The Round Table facilitated a debate among various stakeholders on how to improve these systems so as to derive maximum mobility benefits at least environmental and social costs. It was attended by sector experts, government officials, NGO representatives, students and academicians working in the field of informal public transport sector.

Release of TERI’s film on Informal Public Transport
In the Roundtable on ‘Informal Public Transport’, TERI also released its film titled ‘Tere bina jiya jaye na’. The film highlights the important role played by informal public transport modes in meeting the mobility needs of the population and the key issues related to their operations, sharing experiences and examples from two Indian cities, namely NOIDA and Amritsar.
Watch the film here
TERI releases policy brief on 'Climate Resilient Infrastructure and Services in Coastal Cities'
TERI's has published a new policy brief titled: 'Towards a Policy for Climate Resilient Infrastructure and Services in Coastal Cities'.
The policy brief outlines a greater urgency and need to build in climate resilience in the way cities are planned, particularly infrastructure, to equip cities to withstand the impacts of extreme events such as floods, cyclones, and storm surges. The policy brief informs the need to address the barriers in a systematic manner by creating clear roadmaps and action plans; creating mandates and enabling mechanisms, and institutional arrangements.
The policy brief is based on the learning that emerged from TERI’s yearlong study which looked at the impacts of Sea Level Rise (SLR) and other climate parameters such as storm surges and extreme rainfall on infrastructure and services of coastal
TERI releases policy brief on 'Climate Resilient Infrastructure and Services in Coastal Cities'
cities. TERI acknowledges the support from USAID to conduct this study which is part of their Climate Change Resilient Development (CCRD) under the Climate Adaptation Small Grants Program. The thematic area for the study was “Climate Resilient Infrastructure Services” (CRIS) and the case study cities were Panaji in Goa and Visakhapatnam or Vizag in Andhra Pradesh. TERI also acknowledges support from Government of UK Department for International Development (DFID) in drawing up this policy brief from this study.
Read the Policy Brief here
Read the related study reports here
Webinar on Building Climate Resilient Cities: Innovative Approaches to Overcome Common Challenges
A webinar on “Building Climate Resilient Cities: Innovative Approaches to Overcome Common Challenges” was organized by USAID under its Climate Change Resilient Development (CCRD) project, in partnership with Urban Institute, Washington D.C. on 30th July 2015. The webinar shared tools and innovative practices for building city-level resilience to climate change and brought forth practical approaches for promoting resilience in cities. The webinar was attended by Webinar on Building Climate Resilient Cities: Innovative Approaches to Overcome Common Challenges
participants from across the globe including experts, researchers and practitioners in the urban resilience space. Through presentations and Q&A, the webinar discussed on the need for increasing the capacity of cities in developing countries to promote climate resilience, developing easy-to-use tools and resources tailored to cities’ local contexts and mainstreaming climate change considerations into municipal decision making. Speakers included Ms. Joanne Potter, Principal, ICF International, Washington D.C., Mr. Charles Cadwell, Director, Urban Institute, Washington D.C., Mr. John Taylor, Director, Kota Kita, Surakarta, and Ms. Raina Singh, Associate Fellow, TERI, New Delhi. The webinar was moderated by Mr. Jonathan Cook, Climate Change Specialist, USAID.

Watch the full webinar here
Webinar presentation can be accessed here
 
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