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Electric Vehicles in India: Tackling the challenges

09 Sep 2023
| The Financial Express

The pace of electrification has increased significantly in the last few years. We are looking at a second consecutive year when the EV sales will clock the one million-plus mark. Some of the recurring challenges include low penetration and up-time of charging infrastructure and higher upfront cost of EVs said Mr Sharif Qamar, Associate Director, Transport and Urban Governance Division, TERI.

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All-of-society approach needed make progress towards Paris Agreement goals: UN Global Stocktake report

09 Sep 2023
| News 9 live

The report is right in saying that there is a need to raise ambition and that much more action, on all fronts and by all actors, is needed to meet the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement said Mr RR Rashmi, Distinguished Fellow and Programme Director, Resource Efficiency and Governance Division, TERI.

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High hopes for climate and energy outcomes at G20 Summit as India takes lead

07 Sep 2023
| Deccan Herald

Despite India's push on the issue of fossil fuels it is unlikely there will be any language additional to what was agreed in Bali due to lack of global advancement and concrete action, on technology, hydrogen, blue economy, and circular economy said Mr RR Rashmi, Distinguished Fellow and Programme Director, Resource Efficiency & Governance Division, TERI.

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Promoting sustainable lifestyles: Metrics, instruments and proposals for G20

07 Sep 2023
| The Hindustan Times

The policy brief uses a composite index and indices on consumption developed by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India, to assess the state of lifestyles and consumption in G20 countries and the European Union (EU); these consumption sectors include food, transport, and residential and waste management. The G20 can play a crucial role in promoting norms on sustainable lifestyles as well as informing actions by the use of evidence and exchange of good practices. This brief

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Emerging trends powering India’s clean energy transition

06 Sep 2023
| The Financial Express

Floating solar power plants have also become part of India's solar expansion strategies. Based on a study conducted by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India's reservoirs, which span an area of 18,000sq km, hold the potential to generate 280GW of electricity through floating solar panels.

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Indian Army's new Thal Sena Bhawan will conform to GRIHA-IV green norms

04 Sep 2023
| The Hindu

The Indian Army's new Thal Sena Bhawan (TSB), coming up on a sprawling 39 acre site with a built-up area of 143,450 sq.m., boasts of several green measures conforming with GRIHA-IV (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) norms. It has been designed for a building life of about 100 years, and is earthquake-resistant, according to C.P. Kukreja Architects, who have been awarded the project. The building will be ready by May-June 2025.

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Scientists are asked if humans have broken the earth's climate

31 Aug 2023
| Clean Technica

In order to make the Earth habitable for future generations, we need to take drastic measures to reduce the concentrations of greenhouse gases says Ms Suruchi Bhadwal, Senior Director The Energy and Resources Institute.

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Need to shift Climate Change Narrative from Total Emissions to Per Capita Emissions of each country: Union Minister for Power and New & Renewable Energy

25 Aug 2023
| Press Information Bureau

Need to shift Climate Change Narrative from Total Emissions to Per Capita Emissions of each country says Mr R K Singh, Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy during his Presidential Address at the Twenty-Second Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture, held in New Delhi on August 25, 2023, in memory of Late Shri Darbari Seth, the founder of TERI.

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A distress call from the mountains: How floods, landslides receding glaciers and erratic rainfall are leaving behind a trail of disasters in Himalayan region

20 Aug 2023
| The Financial Express

The Himalayas are young mountains, made of sedimentary rocks. So, landslides happen more often in the rainy season. The natural vulnerability of these events is increasing due to climate change Says Dr Shresth Tayal, Senior Fellow The Energy and Resources Institute.

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Take that seaweed and make it fuel for your car

10 Aug 2023
| Herald

The coastal land can be effectively used to grow marine microalgae and seaweed to generate biomass using marine water and atmospheric carbon dioxide without competing for potable water and land says Dr Sanjukta Subudhi, Senior Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute.

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DMRC to make passengers aware about CO2 emissions reduction due to Metro travel

10 Aug 2023
| The Economic Times

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has launched a "CarbonLite Metro Travel" initiative for passengers to know how much carbon emissions they have saved while using the metro instead of petrol-fueled cars. "CarbonLite Metro Travel" was supported by research from the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Delhi, that each kilometer travelled by metro train instead of road vehicles "results in a noteworthy reduction of 32.38 grams of CO2 emissions".

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