Projects

Completed Projects

TERI and WRI Joint Introductory Workshop on The New Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Accounting Standards in India

February 1, 2012 to
June 11, 2013

TERI in partnership with the World Resources Institute (WRI) has embarked upon a Programme in India to build capacity on corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting with the use of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) standards. The program will explore linking energy-efficiency improvements with GHG emission reductions and help companies gain additional understanding of their GHG-related risks and opportunities.

TERI Environmental Survey 2013

October 1, 2012 to
June 5, 2013

The TERI Environmental Survey is assessing at people’s perception, behaviour, awareness and opinion towards the environment (air, water, waste and waste management, climate change, forest/green cover and cleanliness and health of surrounding areas). The study is being conducted in the six most populous cities in India (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata).

Sensitization, Education and Awareness on Recycling for a Cleaner Habitat

July 2, 2012 to
May 31, 2013

Project SEARCH is a school environment education programme that aims to raise awareness amongst school students, teachers, school community and the society at large on the issue of waste. The idea is to encourage the young students and teachers to practice the 4Rs – refuse, reuse, reduce and recycle – in their daily lives and to make consumption choices that would ensure the sustainability of the planet in the years to come.

YUVA (Youth Unite for Voluntary Action) Meet 2013

October 1, 2012 to
May 31, 2013

YUVA Meet is an anuual youth meet that provide college students and youth participants from across the world a platform to discuss, deliberate and debate on issuses related to Sustainable Development.
The YUVA Meet 2013 will be held from 28-29 January 2013 at New Delhi on the theme, ‘Green Growth – Preparing Youth for Sustainable Living’.

Preparation of baseline document on fly ash utilization and safe management in agriculture and waste land development

September 28, 2010 to
May 26, 2013
The project aims to prepare a baseline document for fly ash utilization/ safe management in agriculture and waste land development. In order to learn to use fly ash more efficiently and effectively, information comprising current scenarios in R&D, application, forthcoming technologies must be documented in a way that makes them readily accessible to everyone in the field - industries, academia, governments, etc both in regional and global perspectives.

Independent energy production assessment from wind farm in Maharashtra

October 12, 2012 to
May 10, 2013

The objective of this project is to carry out independent annual energy assessment for a 90-MW wind power plant in Maharashtra using WAsP (a program for predicting wind climates, wind resources and power productions from wind turbines and wind farms). In this assessment various plant loss factors and uncertainty of estimations will be considered and probability of exceedances at P50, P75, P90 and P95 will be calculated.

Assessment of Toll Booth Plaza Workers' Exposure to Traffic Pollutants and its Resultant Effect on Lung Functions

February 1, 2012 to
April 30, 2013
| Health & Nutrition
| Environment
| Transport

The project would assess the exposure of toll booth workers to traffic related pollutants. A Comparison of health effects on toll booth workers with less exposed control group would be undertaken. A variety of respiratory parameters would be measured to meet this objective.

Policy and regulatory issues in the context of large-scale grid integration of renewable energy in Gujarat

September 2, 2011 to
April 30, 2013

Large-scale grid integration of RE (renewable energy) power brings in a number of issues pertaining to policy, technical and regulatory in nature especially in case of intermittent sources like wind and solar. Generation mix in a grid should be such that it not only follows the load pattern but also responds to the sudden load changes. Increased share of intermittent power poses difficulty in grid operation. Further sudden changes in power flow in EHT transmission lines could also happen.

Identification of Win-Win Adaptation Options through Adaptation Metrics and Integrated Adaptation Decision-Making Frameworks

June 7, 2012 to
April 23, 2013

The current status of climate change adaptation is characterized by ad-hoc decision-making mechanisms without a means to measure the progress in adaptive capacity of people and systems under question. Effective adaptation is best achieved by knowing beforehand the possible impact of adaptation otpions on the adaptive capacity of the system under consideration.

Pre-project: Climate Change as an Opportunity towards Adaptive Sustainable Aquaculture

January 1, 2011 to
April 5, 2013
The main objective in this pre-project is to build a holistic and integrated knowledge base that enables a quantitative analysis of the dynamic two way itneractions between climate change and aquaculture sector in a future full-project.

This objective will be addressed through the following three main work packages. (1) Climate change impacts on aquaculture; (2) Aquaculture impacts on climate change; (3) Formulating future adaptive strategies.