Projects

Designing climate products and models for India

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Climate Change

The proposed work plans to continue with TERI's ongoing research with the objective of improving understanding of climate processes and its linkages at regional scales especially under the growing extreme climate event narrative using state-of-art dynamical modelling products.

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To bring together Indian and Afghan innovators and urban planners for a 2-3-day tech camp in Mumbai to collaborate on developing sustainable solution

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Transport

The objectives of this Tech Camp are to: (1) Strengthen people-to-people ties between the United States, India and Afghanistan through exchange of information, experiences and expertise; (2) Increase the capacities of India and Afghanistan to address their challenges and prepare  for the future by providing participants with entrepreneurial and problem-solvin

Urban Farming in Navi Mumbai Eco-City

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Sustainable Habitat

Eco–city broadly means a human settlement modelled on the self–sustaining structure and functioning of natural ecosystems. It is developed on the lines of integrated urban planning and management programmes addressing social and ecological health of the city.

Enabling Cities to Implement Innovative Sustainable Urban Solutions

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Sustainable Habitat | Climate Change

India is on the cusp of urbanisation with around 34% of the country’s population currently living in cities and a rate of urbanisation higher than most South Asian countries. By 2030, it is expected that 40% of India’s population will be living in urban areas, contributing to more than two-thirds of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Load research study of BRPL

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Energy

The scope of work will be to carry out the survey to study the characteristics of electrical load which provides trend analysis and general characteristics of different categories of LT (low tension) and HT (high tension) consumers covering 23 divisions of BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL).

Environmental consultancy for Diesel Locomotive Emission Standards Project for Indian Railways

December 27, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Climate Change | Environment

The objective of the project was to develop emission standards for PM and gaseous pollutants from diesel locomotives.

Climate policy assessment and Mitigation Modelling to Integrate national and global Transition pathways (COMMIT)

December 22, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Environment

The Paris Agreement's central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping global temperature increase well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Research Centre

December 1, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Sustainable Agriculture

The TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Centre, a collaboration between TERI and Deakin University, Australia has been working on using nanobiotechnology to provide sustainable agriculture solutions

Endocrine Disruptors in Indian Food: minimizing children exposure and fostering a safer space for agriculture and food market (EDIFY)

December 1, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Environment | Sustainable Agriculture | Health & Nutrition

The main objectives of this project are to: i) conduct a comprehensive assessment of exposure of the Indian population to endocrine disrupting substances (EDS)through the diet (food and water); ii) assess climate and anthropological drivers controlling levels of EDS in drinking water and agricultural products;

Analyzing implications of land-use-change coupled with climate change on surface runoff using a hydrological model: Case study of Goa

November 6, 2017
| Ongoing project
| Climate Change

The overall objective for the proposed work is to assess the impact of the land-use-change and projected climatic changes on the near surface hydrology across a watershed in Goa. The specific objectives of the proposed work are to: 1. Develop a modelling protocol that couples future climate data for different scenarios with a hydrologic model simulating stream flow;