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India has world's fourth-largest rail network, but its freight loves the highways

15 Oct 2024

| The Economic Times

Around 70% of the goods transportation in India prefers road over rail because of its door-to-door service, reliability and consistently improving highway infrastructure. For an economy of the size of India, which is aiming to reduce high logistics costs and cut carbon emissions, that is not good news.

ACFA – TERI Report signals immense potential to improve India's biofuels program

14 Oct 2024

| Indian Chemical News

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) supported by the Asian Clean Fuels Association (ACFA) has recently released a report on Biofuels Program which signals immense potential for India to improve India's biofuels program. The report, titled "Enhancing India's Biofuels Program: Examining the Role of Oxyfuels in India's Clean Fuel Transition," highlights complementary strategies that India could deploy to reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels by adopting fuel ethers as part of the

Pakistan's Punjab map turns red due to stubble burning, satellite images show the real face

09 Oct 2024

| Dainik Jagran

Dr. Vibha Dhawan, member of the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjacent Areas and Director General of TERI, says that crop production has increased significantly in the last few decades. But the number of harvesters we have has not increased in the same proportion.

Stubble burning has started, get ready for suffocating pollution, claims of zero form fire are proving to be hollow

02 Oct 2024

| Dainik Jagran

Dr. Vibha Dhawan, member of the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjacent Areas and Director General of TERI, says that the problem of burning of stubble is an annual one. We will have to get to the bottom of this problem, only then can it be solved. We should not forget that a policy was made to change the time of sowing rice to save water. Earlier, where paddy nurseries were planted in May, now nurseries are planted in June in most places. In

What is recycling? How does it work in India?

01 Oct 2024

| Mongabay

Rapid development and increasing consumption owing to India’s growing middle class have nudged India among the top ten municipal solid waste generators in the world with an estimated 62 million metric tons of waste being generated annually, according to a report by The Energy and Resources Institute.

Three things are poisoning the air of Delhi-NCR, stubble burning is also responsible for pollution, study reveals

01 Oct 2024

| Navbharat Times

Pollution has started knocking at the doors of Delhi-NCR. Every year reasons are sought for the pollution in Delhi-NCR. The governments of the surrounding states make accusations and counter-accusations. A report has come from IIT Kanpur-TERI on the pollution in Delhi-NCR. It has given three reasons for pollution.

How New Delhi's Avayacam Empowers Disabled Artisans, Turns Waste To Wealth

27 Sep 2024

| NDTV

India generates more than 65 million tons of waste in a year, according to a report by The Energy and Resources Institute, a New Delhi-based research group, but only around a fifth is processed and treated.

Uttarakhand forests will get a 'big reward' for absorbing carbon, MoU worth Rs 1000 crore signed

21 Sep 2024

| Dainik Jagran

In sequence to the Uttarakhand Investor Summit conducted in December 2023, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) organized a two-day workshop on September 19-20, 2024. The selection of project areas within Reserved/Degraded Forest Areas, Van Panchayat Areas, and Private Agricultural Land under the jurisdiction of the Forest Department was deliberated. TERI representative were Senior Director Dr. JV Sharma, Associate Director Dr. Syed Arif Wali, Vikas Sinha, Varun Grover, Abha

TERI working on setting up domestic standards for biofuel blending in marine vessels, says Dr Vibha Dhawan

20 Sep 2024

| The Economic Times

Dr Vibha Dhawan, Director General at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), outlined the role that the institute's National Centre of Excellence in Green Port and Shipping will play in developing a green and sustainable ports and shipping sector in the country as well as the need for establishing domestic standards for biofuel blending in marine vessels.

Critical Discussion Paper on ‘Climate-Resilient Water Management in India’ unveiled at India Water Week 2024

19 Sep 2024

| Krishak Jagat

The discussion paper was unveiled during the thematic session on 'Demand Management and Water Use Efficiency'. The session, chaired by Dr SK Sarkar, Distinguished Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), explored the urgent need for efficient water resource management to address the increasing demand and unpredictable availability of water due to climate change.

With climate change, there will be a greater number of extremes and higher precipitation in terms of rainfall, and this will certainly result in an increase in risk aspects of dams in many parts of the country, says Ms Suruchi Bhadwal, Director, Earth Science and Climate Change, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

Indian sugar manufacturers partner with TERI, PRAJ for sustainable biofuels

13 Sep 2024

| The Hindu Business Line

The Indian Sugar & Bio Energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA) on 12 September 2024 announced that it has signed a Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and PRAJ Industries to advance sustainable bioenergy solutions. The MoUs focus on Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and explore the potential of bio-ethanol, bio-gas, green bio-hydrogen and green methanol.