Aaranyak-TERI holds capacity building training for grassroot leaders in Kohora
July 4, 2024 |
July 4, 2024
The Shillong Times
A two-day workshop on participatory mapping for grassroot leaders for implementation of seventh operational phase of GEF small grants was organised collaboratively by TERI (The Energy and Resource Institute) and region's premier biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak recently. The workshop was organised during June 27-28 at the Community Resource Centre, Chandrasing Rongpi Memorial High School, Chandrasing Rongpi of Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong landscape in Assam.
TERI-UNOPS Initiative Empowered 27000 School Children in Uttar Pradesh on Climate Change, Health, and Hygiene Practices
June 21, 2024 |
June 21, 2024
Asian News International (ANI)
A TERI-UNOPS (The Energy and Resources Institute) United Nations Office for Project Services collaborative initiative on "Capacity Building Programme Targeting School Children on Climate Change, Health, and Hygiene across 11 Districts of Uttar Pradesh, India", concluded with a National Conference held in New Delhi on 20 June 2024.
Holistic Wellness Centre & Meghalaya Traditional Knowledge Portal launched
February 22, 2024 |
February 22, 2024
The Shillong Times
On February 22, 2024, a significant milestone was achieved in Meghalaya with the inauguration of the Holistic Wellness Centre and the launch of the Meghalaya Traditional Knowledge Portal. A Collaborative programme of Bio-Resource Development Centre, an autonomous R&D institution under Planning Department, Government of Meghalaya, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi and the Meghalaya Basin Development Agency.
From alarm bells to recess bell: Address nutrition gaps
October 19, 2022
| Dr Manish Anand and Dr Meena Sehgal
| Mint
The need of the hour is a multi-pronged approach focused on short supply chains, sustainable public food procurement and redistribution, a network of partners that support food-processing-driven rural livelihood diversification and diversified diets. To help make affordable food widely available, three partnerships are crucial: with panchayats, the private sector and pathshalas (schools).
Building a climate-resilient public health system
September 9, 2021
| ET HealthWorld
The recently released sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has painted a grim picture of the times in store. It warns of heatwaves and humid heat stress getting more intense and frequent in the 21st century, and other such scenarios. Further, rapidly emerging knowledge from across the globe indicates that residing in high-risk areas makes families more vulnerable to mental stress, disruption in food supply chains, reduced access to medical care provisions for routine disease burden, migration, and infectious and vector borne disease.
Finding the sync between health and climate change
March 24, 2021
| Dr Dhrubaa Ghosh
| Express Healthcare
There is a direct link between health and the environment around us. And the impact of climate change on our health is now clearly visible. We continue to suffer directly or indirectly as a consequence of the rapid change in climatic conditions. Whether in the form of heat stress, water scarcity, droughts, and the resultant malnutrition or floods and the resultant increase in water- and vector-borne diseases, air pollution-related health effects etc., the impact is profound.