Policy Brief
Contextualising Blue Economy in Asia-Pacific region
22 Mar 2021
| Ms Mani Juneja
| Ms Christina De Souza
| Ms Asha L Giriyan
| Ms Swati Ganeshan
The share of Blue Economy in the GDP of Asia-Pacific countries goes up to as high as 87% in some island nations in the region The ocean remains a poorly-policed frontier.Blue economy promotes economic growth, social inclusion and improvement of livelihoods while ensuring environmental sustainability. The contribution of ocean based sectors is significant to the economic growth of Asia-Pacific countries, especially to some of the island nations of the region.
TERI Advanced Oxidation Technology (TADOX) to treat textile and dyeing wastewater, achieve zero liquid discharge, and enhance water reuse: R&D-based policy recommendations
22 Mar 2021
| Dr Nupur Bahadur
The policy brief focuses on innovation in textile wastewater treatment with emphasis on integration of TADOX at secondary treatment stage or at pre-biological stage
Discussion paper on Retail competition in power distribution
18 Mar 2021
| Mr Ajay Shankar
| Ms TCA Avni
The discussion paper analyses the implications of the separation of 'carriage' (the wires business) and 'content' (the supply business) in retail electricity distribution in India
A Model-Based Assessment of Variable Renewable Grid Integration Costs in India
23 Feb 2021
| Mr Thomas Spencer
| Mr Neshwin Nigel Rodrigues
| Mr Raghav Pachouri
| Mr Shubham Thakare
To understand the costs of integrating variable renewable energy in India's electricity grid, TERI has conducted a model-based assessment
Super Efficient AC Deployment: Opportunities through business models in India
13 Feb 2021
| Mr Manjeet Singh
| Ms Madhur Bhargava
The policy brief aims to analyse the bulk procurement program for Super-Efficient Air Conditioners which includes key business strategies and technical criteria. The paper further analyses the existing framework of the model and elucidates key takeaways for impact enhancement. It explores various international models available in the cooling sector to recognize their applicability in the Indian context to promote low GWP refrigerant based energy-efficient air conditioners.
Will India attain its forestry NDC target of achieving 2.5–3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through additional forest and tree cover by 2030?
11 Feb 2021
| Dr Ajay Mathur
| Dr Jitendra Vir Sharma
| Dr Priyanka
| Dr Subhash Ashutosh
India's performance on achieving its NDC has been progressive and impressive. To achieve the additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonne, India needs to almost double its forest cover. A holistic approach with balanced political, financial, legal and institutional efforts are much needed. It needs to sustain the momentum of increasing its energy efficiency along with a high rate of afforestation to achieve the 2030 NDC targets. This target should be taken as an opportunity where all the related activities contributing to it will enhance ecological security, improvement of vast open forest of the country as well.
Innovative financial mechanisms to achieve additional 2.5–3.0 billion tonne of CO2e through additional forest and tree cover in India by 2030
11 Feb 2021
| Dr Ajay Mathur
| Dr Jitendra Vir Sharma
| Dr Syed Arif Wali
| Dr Priyanka
A substantial financial allocation to the tune of around 60,000 crore per annum will be required for SFM. A financial gap of 48,744 crore needs to be filled to achieve NDCs target by adopting innovative financial mechanism such as Deployment of LPG Connection to the Forest-Dependent Community, Implementing MSP Scheme for Agroforestry and by Formulating Carbon Neutrality Policy at National Level
Scope and potential of coastal ecosystem towards mitigating climate change
11 Feb 2021
| Dr Ajay Mathur
| Dr Jitendra Vir Sharma
| Dr Priyanka
| Ms Aparna Tyagi
The coastal ecosystems — Mangroves, Sea grasses, and Tidal marshes — commonly referred to as blue carbon ecosystems store half the "blue" carbon buried beneath the ocean floor. The carbon that is stored in the coastal ecosystems remain trapped for very long periods of time and thus resulting in very large carbon stock. The carbon stock in these ecosystems and the existing or potential carbon emissions must be quantified. Mangroves are fairly well mapped, large areas containing seagrass meadows are largely surveyed but areas of tidal salt marsh are un-surveyed and un-documented. The key role of blue carbon in mitigating climate
Designing the methodology to establish minimum support prices of trees grown outside forests
11 Feb 2021
| Dr Ajay Mathur
| Dr Jitendra Vir Sharma
| Dr Yogesh Gokhale
| Ms Priya Sharma
| Ms Aparna Tyagi
Agroforestry can contribute more than 2 billion tons of CO2e by 2030 if government provides them Minimum Support Price (MSP) of timber produced by farmer. Minimum Support Price will provide a social safety net to farmers by taking care of the economic interest of the farmer in case of the market failure of the respective agroforestry species and will motivate farmers for planting more species under agroforestry.
Baseline and quantification of sequestration of 2.5–3 billion tonne of CO2e by 2030
11 Feb 2021
| Dr Ajay Mathur
| Dr Jitendra Vir Sharma
| Dr Priyanka
The policy brief focuses on analysing gaps and challenges, target setting to achieve the forest carbon sink by 2030 as well as various other issues related to achieving the target such as Forecasting Financial resources, Analyzing the Institutional Framework, Strengthening Agroforestry, Policy interventions, Sustainable Forest Management. 2015 has been suggested to be selected as the baseline year rather than 2005, as many technological and methodological upgradations have taken place in various spheres.