Projects

Determination of tariff for the year 2011-12 of RVUN and Annual Performance review of the previous years

February 17, 2011 to October 27, 2011
| Completed Project

Determination of ARR of the 6 power plants of RVUN for 2011-12 and annual performance review of the previous years. this would involve computation of each parameter of ARR for FY 2011-12 and 2012-13 and carrying out a revise of the ARR components considered in the previous years.

Pilot project to support Common Service Centers through partnership between Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and TERI’s Lighting a Billion Lives©a

February 10, 2011 to March 16, 2012
| Completed Project

TERI and Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) are joining hands to support Common Service Centres (CSCs) through implementation of Lighting a Billion Lives(c)a in Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Study on Potential Areas of Technological Collaboration between India and Japan and Identification of Key Barriers to Enhanced Technology Transfer

January 14, 2011 to March 13, 2011
| Completed Project

TERI in partnership with Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd. (MUMSS) has engaged in a project with the aim to accelerate cooperative activities involving introduction of new technologies, between India and Japan towards promoting the uptake of low-carbon technologies.

IGES-TERI Asia Pacific Climate Policy Dialogue, New Delhi

January 6, 2011 to June 22, 2011
| Completed Project

The proposed dialogue aims to have discussions on broadly two aspects:1/ Domestic policy developments and actions plans in India, the post-Cancun period. 2/ International negotiations and the comparative examples of climate change mitigation actions from major players in the global climate negotiation front.

Using mega-events to promote sustainable cities in developing countries: The IBSA countries experience

January 3, 2011 to November 6, 2011
| Completed Project

The most important issue for developing and emerging countries is not hosting of successful mega-events, but rather about social, economic (including fiscal) and environmental sustainability implications, especially in cities, and how sustainability in city (and country) could be supported by such events.

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

January 1, 2011 to April 5, 2013
| Completed Project

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.

Raising Climate Finance from International Transport Sectors: Identification and Analysis of Governance Structures

December 15, 2010 to December 23, 2011
| Completed Project

The objective of this project is to develop policy proposals for climate policies in maritime transport and aviation that generate climate funding for developing countries and have a reasonable chance of being acceptable to a major part of the international community. This is joint project with CE DELFT, TERI and Climate Strategies.

Bioaccumulation Studies of Organo Pesticides in the Khazan Ecosystem of Goa

December 2, 2010 to April 7, 2012
| Completed Project

This project would carry out research analysis of pesticide pollution in terms of bioaccumulation in fishes and mollusks in the khazan ecosystem caused by agricultural operations. It would evaluate the spread of pesticides and fate of pesticides in an integrated system of Khazans of Goa.

GHG Protocol Adoption in India

December 1, 2010 to September 26, 2011
| Completed Project

The project is a joint collaboration between the World Resources Institute (WRI), TERI and TERI-BCSD India to design a program on GHG management and accounting that is attractive and practical for Indian businesses. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) is one of the main internationally recognised GHG accounting standards which is widely used by government and business leaders.

Climate Change Vulnarability Assessment for Rajasthan

December 1, 2010 to January 19, 2012
| Completed Project

Most methods of vulnerability assessments, in use at present, face conceptual, methodological or empirical challenges such as lack of an integrated framework, large-scale assumptions in case of data unavailability and a high degree of sensitivity to alternative methods for data aggregation etc.