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Intensive irrigation, chemical use add to land degradation
16 Aug 2019
| The Hindu Business Line
"Perverse incentives" such as free power for groundwater pumping, nitrogenous fertiliser subsidy, minimum support price only for a few crops, which influences crop choice, may be causing degradation of farmlands, according to TERI Base Paper on land degradation.
Read moreTERI pitches for resource efficiency to minimise environmental degradation
16 Apr 2019
| The Times of India
TERI has submitted a report on resource use efficiency to environment ministry, suggesting use of 6R (reduce, reuse, recycle, redesign, re-manufacture and refurbish) principle to reduce the country's heavy dependence of imported scrap and minimise environmental degradation.
Read moreIndia on track to fulfilling climate commitments: Harsh Vardhan at World Sustainable Development Summit 2019
12 Feb 2019
| PV Magazine
Delivering the inaugural address at WSDS 2019, Vice President of India Mr Venkaiah Naidu spoke about the many facets of sustainable development like inclusive development, sustainable mobility and urbanisation, energy security, waste management and green innovation.
Read moreNew National Mineral Policy Vs The 2008 Policy
24 Sep 2018
| ET Now
The National Minerals Policy, the third policy in the post-reform period, after NMP 1993 and 2008 is currently being finalised and is expected to be announced in the next few weeks. Given that the mining sector is still languishing - latest GDP nos show the mining sector grew by just 0.1% in the first quarter even as the eco grew 8.2%. Mr S Vijay Kumar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI, speaks on the issue.
See videoMahindra Lifespace, TERI launch centre of excellence focussed on energy efficiency
13 Jun 2018
| The Hindu Business Line
In a bid to boost energy-efficient real estate in India, Mahindra Lifespace Developers and TERI have announced the launch of a Centre of Excellence (CoE). A research facility, the CoE will aim at developing market-ready and energy-efficient technologies. It will also work towards preparing policy briefs for the Centre and state ministries to promote 'green' development.The information and knowledge sharing enabled by the Mahindra-TERI Centre of Excellence would facilitate developers to make
Read moreTERI sign MOU to set up a Resource Efficiency Cell
04 Jun 2018
| Business Standard
In the run up to World Environment Day, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and TERI entered a Memorandum of Understanding to set up a resource efficiency cell in the Ministry. The main objectives of the Cell are to provide a platform to mainstream resource efficiency in public policy. It aims to achieve this through coordinated thinking among the various relevant Ministries and agencies for promoting resource efficiency in the use of materials in the country. It also aims to
Read moreGive that old automobile a break!
13 Mar 2018
| The Hindu Business Line
Auto waste could prove to be a serious threat if an end-of-life legislation for vehicles is not enacted urgently in the country. TERI has been involved in formulating a vehicle scrapping policy in the country. After comparing ELV (end-of-life vehicles) management systems in China, Korea, Taiwan, japan, Singapore and the European Union, TERI researchers feel India's solutions could lie in creating a sustainable business model for retired vehicles. In the recent policy brief they argue for a
Read morePM Narendra Modi inaugurates World Sustainable Development Summit 2018
16 Feb 2018
| DNA
Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi inaugurated the World Sustainable Development Summit 2018, organized by TERI. The Prime Minister, addressing the gathering at the inaugural speech, laid emphasis on the major current environmental problems that are being faced by the developing nations. Mr Modi added that successful climate action needs access to financial resources and technology. Technology can help countries like India to develop sustainably and enable poor to benefit from it.
Read moreDemand creation must to reduce costs of resource-efficient
25 Jan 2018
| India Today
Creation of demand is essential to increase sales volumes and reduce the costs of new resource- efficient technologies, Director-General of TERI, Dr Ajay Mathur, said at the World Economic Forum (WEF). Citing the example of the Indian government's LED bulb programme, Dr Mathur said aggregation of demand and bulk procurement helped in bringing down its prices. Demand creation is essential to enhance sales volumes and reduce the costs of new resource-efficient technologies, Dr Mathur was
Read moreNABARD commences digitisation of SHGs
01 Jan 2018
| Navhind Times
Self Help Groups in Goa will soon be on the digital map with NABARD launching the EShakti project recently for digitisation of the groups. The pan-India project is being implemented in 100 districts in a phased manner. In Goa both the districts – north and south Goa are a part of the project. The implementation of the project is by the Mineral Foundation of Goa and TERI.
Read moreIndia needs to build solar-electricity storage system
28 Nov 2017
| Outlook India
India needs to build a storage system for electricity from its fast-expanding solar network in a bid to balance cost-effective energy mix. There is a mismatch between peak demand and electricity generation period for solar, said Mr Nitya Nanda, Fellow & Area Convenor at the Centre for Resource Efficiency and Governance, TERI. Mr Nanda expressed concern over the high cost of storage system, mostly to be a battery-based set up. This would raise the solar electricity cost to consumer to Rs
Read moreIndia, EU to boost environmental cooperation
30 Jun 2017
| PTI
India and the European Union have agreed to strengthen cooperation in the areas of environment, resource efficiency and, circular economy under the EU\'s Resource Efficiency Initiative (EU-REI) for India. The Resource Efficiency Initiative (REI) project will be implemented on behalf of the European Union by a consortium led by Deutsche Gesellschaftf r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, with TERI, Confederation of the Indian Industry and Adelphi. The project objectives includes
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