Policy Brief
Biodiversity and Land Restoration in India: A Narrative of India's Sustainability Efforts Vis-à-vis the World
12 Nov 2024
| Mr R R Rashmi
| Dr Manish Anand
Synergies between Climate Action and SDGs: Implications for Multilateralism
03 Oct 2024
| Dr Shailly Kedia
| Ms Palak Khanna
| Shivangi Raj
| Nobue Amanuma
| Himangana Gupta
The knowledge document examines the critical synergies between climate action and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting their implications for multilateralism. Despite the adoption of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, global progress remains insufficient, with only 13.6% of SDG targets on track. The interconnected nature of climate and SDG actions is evident, as aligning these efforts could significantly enhance global economic output and resilience.
Internationalizing Sustainable Lifestyles for Climate Justice
27 Sep 2024
| Dr Shailly Kedia
| Madhuparna Maiti
| Shivangi Raj
Mainstream frameworks on sustainable consumption and production fail to holistically capture downstream segments of resource consumption and production systems, especially in relation to lifestyle choices. Building on previous work by TERI, this policy brief seeks to develop composite metrics on consumption for G20 countries and discusses ways to further internationalize sustainable lifestyles.
Sustainable Organic Waste Management : A Playbook for Lucknow, India
23 Sep 2024
| Ms Shweta Gautam
| Ms. Videesha Velijala
In 2020, global municipal solid waste (MSW) generation reached 2.24 billion tonnes, a figure projected to rise to 3.88 billion tonnes by 2050. This increase will be largely driven by the fastest-growing regions, including sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East, where waste levels are expected to double or even triple.
Green Public Procurement for Advancing Sustainable Development in India: Policy Nudges for Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production
09 Aug 2024
| Dr Shailly Kedia
| Ishita Srivastava
Green Public Procurement (GPP), a sub-component of sustainable public procurement, seeks to achieve environmental sustainability by leveraging the government sector’s purchasing power. GPP can be defined as the deliberate and systematic integration of environmental objectives into the procurement process of goods, services, and works by public agencies. This policy brief employs a case study-based approach to identify strategies for promoting GPP in India.
SDG Blueprint for Sustainable Agriculture
27 Mar 2024
| Madhuparna Maiti
| Palak Khanna
| Shailly Kedia
| Shivangi Raj
| Manish Anand
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) contain seventeen goals which have a bearing on multiple issue areas including agriculture. This study sought to develop an SDG Blueprint to inform integrated approaches to sustainable agriculture at the national level in India. It is crucial that the lenses of sustainable development, climate action, value chains, and multi-stakeholder approaches be considered for sustainable agriculture to contribute towards food security, livelihoods, and ecosystem integrity. The scope of the study was to examine the national policy interface of sustainable agriculture with SDGs.
Working Paper on 'Harnessing opportunities for a Just Transition in India'
24 Jun 2021
| Mr Souvik Bhattacharjya
| Ms Ruchi Gupta
| Dr G Mini
| Mr Saswata Chaudhury
| Ms Mani Juneja
| Mr Kartikey Sharma
Just Transition needs to consider a broad range of social and economic sectors, geographic locations, diverse stakeholders and time horizons
Working Paper on 'Assessing vulnerability from coal dependence and need for a Just Transition'
24 Jun 2021
| Mr Souvik Bhattacharjya
| Ms Ruchi Gupta
| Dr G Mini
| Mr Saswata Chaudhury
| Ms Mani Juneja
| Mr Kartikey Sharma
The paper examines the linkages surrounding the Indian coal economy and the potential fallout in terms of eventual phasing out of coal
Contextualising Blue Economy in Asia-Pacific region
22 Mar 2021
| Ms Mani Juneja
| Ms Christina De Souza
| Ms Asha Hadkar
| 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
G20 Circular Carbon Economy: Fostering Circularity in Plastics
27 Oct 2020
| Dr Shilpi Kapur
| Mr Souvik Bhattacharjya
| Ms Rachel A. Meidl
Fostering circularity in plastic use is an effective way to reduce contamination of marine and coastal environments with plastics and man-made debris. However, there are many challenges down this path.