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Listen: 'Setting Up Smog Towers to Filter Polluted Air Is a Huge Waste of Taxpayers' Money'
21 Mar 2023
| The Wire
"Not just in big cities, but even in rural areas, people now breathe polluted air," says Dr Anju Goel, Fellow, TERI, during the podcast interview with Mr Sidharth Bhatia. Dr Goel thinks pollution should become a political issue like education, which will make a big difference.
Read moreHumanity still has a chance, close to the last one: World on ‘thin ice’ as UN climate report gives stark warning
21 Mar 2023
| The Tribune
UN Climate report is based on data from a few years ago. The calculations about fossil fuel projects already in the pipeline do not include the increase in coal and natural gas use after Russia invades Ukraine, said report co-author and climate economist Mr Dipak Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, TERI.
Read moreHarder to breathe: Mumbai wheezes its way to becoming pollution capital
21 Mar 2023
| Business Standard
The Swiss air tracking index, IQAir, ranked Mumbai and the Mumbai metropolitan region as India's most polluted urban centre. Mumbai's AQI ranged between 200 and 400 on Most days in January and February. Due to La Nina, the air transfer between sea and land, which used to happen every two to three days, slowed down to a seven to 10-day cycle this winter, says Dr Anju Goel, Fellow, Earth Science and Climate Change Division, TERI.
Read more1.5°C overshoot to cause irreversible harm: IPCC
21 Mar 2023
| The Hindustan Times
On 20 March 2023, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its most recent Synthesis Report for decision-makers. "While we in India probably have very little to do with accelerating global warming, there is no doubt that we are a very large economy, and we do have a very significant contribution ongoing to global mitigation. Unfortunately, as a very large country in geography, we will be impacted quite heavily," says Mr. Dipak Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, TERI and co-
Read moreETEnergyworld Solar Power Congress: Energy sector leaders map growth path for renewables
20 Mar 2023
| ET Energyworld
India needs to become a hub for solar energy manufacturing. Rural India can only grow if there is abundant energy. Renewable energy-powered cold chambers are needed in rural areas for storing perishable items said Dr Vibha Dhawan, Director General, TERI.
Read moreIndia's net zero ambition – The critical finance factor
09 Mar 2023
| The Times of India
Many developed countries have formally adopted a net zero GHG emissions policy by the mid-century. China has announced that it will reach net zero by 2060. India has announced its net zero by 2070. Any minimal consideration of equity would acknowledge that such a target is well beyond any reasonable contribution to GHG mitigation that India may be expected to make. Nevertheless, national policymakers have to consider whether this target is economically feasible, writes Dr Prodipto Ghosh,
Read moreWomen's Day Special (tête-à-tête) - Nothing is impossible
09 Mar 2023
| Agriculture Today Magazine
"Women should have confidence that nothing is impossible and they can overcome any problem through hard work", says Dr Vibha Dhawan, Director General, TERI, during the tête-à-tête with Anjana in the Women's Day Special of Agriculture Today.
Read moreDo not profiteer from climate crisis: Yadav
06 Mar 2023
| The Hindustan Times
"We look to India and its influential role as presidency of the G20 to help us deliver a clear political framework and help shape the outcomes we must see at COP28," Mr Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said on February 25 at the World Sustainable Development Summit organised by TERI in New Delhi.
Read moreWSDS: PM Modi pitches for collective efforts to deal with global challenge, experts look to India for taking up leadership roles
27 Feb 2023
| The Times of India
Pitching for collective efforts to deal with critical issues of climate change and pollution, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi said in his written message during TERI's annual World Sustainable Development Summit on 22 February 2023 the environment is not just a global cause but also personal as well as collective responsibility for every individual. He also said Environment conservation is a commitment and not a compulsion for India.
Read moreIndia wants energy transition on its own terms — without phasing out coal and with more grants
27 Feb 2023
| The Hindu
India may be able to use its position as G20 leader this year to steer discussions on a deal toward scaling renewable capacity and investments in new technologies, said Mr. R.R. Rashmi, Programme Director, Earth Science and Climate Change, TERI.
Read moreSustainable Finance for green growth emerges as a key focus at WSDS
27 Feb 2023
| ET Energyworld
Several leaders who spoke at the recently concluded World Sustainable Development Summit emphasized the need for sustainable finance and the absence of new instruments to facilitate long-term lending to fuel green growth, especially in emerging economies and least-developed countries. Dr Vibha Dhawan, Director General, TERI, said that though renewable energy has received a reasonable level of financing, areas such as climate adaptation, sustainable consumption and production, biodiversity
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