Opinion

Time to renew commitments to green energy

01 Apr 2013 |

Mr Shahid Hasan

| The Hindu Business Line

The regulator must ensure that discoms buy the mandated share of renewable energy, says Mr Shahid Hasan, Associate Director, Knowledge Management division, TERI.

Sustainability, Resource Use Efficiency and the Norwegian Ethos

22 Mar 2013 |

Dr R K Pachauri

| Royal Norwegian Embassy, India

TERI has greatly appreciated and benefited from the Norwegian emphasis on global partnerships and collaboration. Consequently, over the past few years TERI has been able to work on a range of research projects and activities that have growing relevance to Indian society and the globe as a whole, says Dr Pachauri, Director-General, TERI.

Mobility for all

20 Mar 2013 |

Ms Akshima Tejas Ghate

| The Financial Express

The entire approach to urban and transport planning and infrastructure needs to be re-looked at from the angles of the problem of inequity, the problem of sprawls and the problem of private motorization, says Akshima Tejas Ghate, Fellow, Sustainable Habitat division, TERI.

The Biofuels equation

08 Feb 2013 |

Mr Anandajit Goswami

| Management Thinking

Anadajit Goswami, Coordinator at The Energy and Resources Institute, answers questions about biofuels and explains what environmental and economic challenges they pose.

India needs new policies to nurture science, research and technology

07 Feb 2013 |

Dr R K Pachauri

| The Economic Times

India's economic progress will be determined to a large extent by the capabilities of our scientific institutions and our efforts to innovate as a society to meet some of the major challenges that we are likely to face in the future, says Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI.

Building resilient cities

06 Feb 2013 |

Dr Divya Sharma

| The Financial Express

Policy makers and local city level governments must take a lead and guide their cities on a path of building resilience, which will simultaneously support ideals of good governance, writes Dr Divya Sharma, Fellow, Sustainable Habitat Division, TERI.

India as 'Renewable Energy Manufacturing Hub'

05 Feb 2013 |

| AlertNet

There is an urgent need to shape India as a "Renewable Energy Hub" for the world, especially focusing on the emerging opportunities in the developing world, writes Mr Amit Kumar, Director, Energy Environment Technology Development, TERI.

The Goa garbage scene: A lot left to be done

13 Jan 2013 |

Ms Shabana Mehmood Kazi

| The Times of India

There is a need to transform the institutional structure of local bodies in charge of waste management so as to enable them to achieve an optimum level of operational efficiency, says Shabana Kazi, Research Associate, Educating Youth for Sustainable Development Division, TERI.

The need for speed

09 Jan 2013 |

Mr Sarbojit Pal

| The Financial Express

The continually growing economy generates a continuous demand for greater passenger mobility. If the Railways wants to retain and grow its share in that demand, it has to improve its services, says Sarbojit Pal, Associate Fellow, Sustainable Habitat Division, TERI.

The biofertiliser option

06 Jan 2013 |

Dr Alok Adholeya

Mr Gautam Anand

| Business Line

The use of mycorrhiza biofertiliser provides benefits at both ends of crop management, with reduction in chemical fertiliser and associated yield increase, say Alok Adholeya, Director and Gautam Sharma, Marketing & Research Analyst, Biotechnology and Bio-resources division.