At our recent panel discussion on 'Accelerating Decarbonization: Opportunities through Emerging Technologies,', moderated by Pawan Mulukutla, at WRI India's annual energy event, ACE, speakers Dr. Anita Gupta, Girish Sethi, Dr. Bipin Kumar Gupta, Dr. Anil Kottantharayil, Dr. Sreedevi Upadhyayula, Dr. Laltu Chandra, Dr. Pratham Arora, Suresh Babu Muttana and Dr. Shashi Kumar, explored the future of decarbonization technologies, their challenges and opportunities. The session highlighted the crucial role of collaboration among government, industry, and academia, and the need for innovative approaches to achieve decarbonization goals. Clean energy is vital for climate action and despite advancement in renewable energy and increased electrification, renewables account for only 12% of global electricity production. The International Energy Agency’s Net Zero by 2050 Roadmap calls for increased renewable deployment, electrification of transport, hydrogen and bioenergy use, carbon capture, and significant improvements in energy efficiency and storage. The panelists shed light on the way forward for India’s energy transition and highlighted a few high-impact strategies: 1. Advancing Green Hydrogen and Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) technologies are essential for reducing emissions in energy-intensive sectors like steel and cement. 2. Utilizing renewable energy in low-temperature applications and transitioning from heat to electricity is vital for reducing industrial carbon emissions. 3. Government collaboration with industries, think tanks, and startups is essential for translating R&D in low carbon technologies into market-ready solutions. 4. Scaling up energy transition requires new technologies, with AI playing a key role in deployment and optimization. 5. India must align economic growth with environmental sustainability, focusing on development-led energy transitions. #WRIIndiaGreenH2 #GreenHydrogen, #Hydrogen, #Decarbonization, #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #NationalGreenHydrogenMission, #GreenAmmonia Sreedevi Upadhyayula | Anil Kottantharayil | Pratham Arora | Girish Sethi | Suresh Babu Muttana | Dr. Anita Gupta | Shashi Kumar | Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering, IIT Kanpur | Dipesh Pherwani | Anuraag Nallapaneni | Yashaswini Jain | Pawan Mulukutla | Madhav Pai | Utsav Shah | Anindita Bhattacharjee | Dr. Garima Dwivedi (nee Mishra) | Deepak Krishnan | Bharath Jairaj | Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
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🚨 New podcast episode Delivering healthcare is a 24/7 job. But what happens when the electricity supply – necessary for so many critical procedures and equipment, medications, and operating facilities – is unreliable? In the 2nd episode of the Turning Up Clean Energy in Asia podcast series, Shivani Shah speaks with Lanvin Concessao and Rishikesh Mishra from WRI India’s Energy Program about the successes and challenges of scaling solar-based healthcare to thousands of facilities across the country. Dr. Rajni Gupta, Program Manager at the Catholic Health Association of India and Romit Sen, Senior Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, HSBC India also reflect on how their organizations partnered with WRI India to deploy solar power and battery energy storage solutions to rural healthcare facilities across Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Assam. Creating a consistent electrification plan has improved service for more than 4 lakh patients. Ensuring reliable, renewable energy means that health facilities can focus on what they do best, serving their patients. 🔗 Tune in to the podcast here: https://bit.ly/4cMvXoM Listen to the episode on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gzFf9DHm Harsha Meenawat, Shikha Anand Ph.D., Dhriti Pant, Abdul Khalid, Bharath Jairaj, Dimitris Mentis, PhD.
Lanvin Concessao, WRI India's WRI Energy Program Manager, lauds #India for electrifying all willing households in 2019. Now it’s time to do the same for social institutions. 🎧 Episode 2 of our #podcast series on the #cleanenergy transition in Asia 👉▶️: https://bit.ly/4cEhqve
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Recently, WRI India collaborated with Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) Limited to conduct a capacity building workshop on clean construction and construction dust mitigation with personnel associated with the under-development Surat Metro. The program was attended by 30+ site engineers and contractors, and was supported by Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB). The workshop sensitized participants about the air quality impacts of construction activities such as excavation, concreting, drilling, cutting, material storage, transport etc. across various sites such as elevated viaducts and stations, underground sections, casting yards, and depots. Group activities were employed to help participants understand various dust generating activities, and map them to potential mitigation solutions. Some key takeaways were: Emphasis on continuous capacity development of: ➡ Stakeholders to ensure metro construction aligns with the latest techniques for dust mitigation. ➡ The use of covering and sprinkling solutions around focused dust-generating activities and stockpiles. ➡ Systematic deployment of cleaning and housekeeping measures such as tyre-washing and sweeping to reduce dust resuspension. ➡ Ensuring proper treatment of vehicular and circulation paths through compacting or paving to further lower dust resuspension due to the movement of vehicles and materials. WRI India is providing technical assistance to Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) under the Accelerator for Clean Air Actions (ACAAS) initiative and is supporting the city with the formulation and implementation of air quality management solutions and policies, improving data-based decision-making, and building capacity of stakeholders. #CleanConstruction #SuratCleanAirActionPlan #CleanAirForAll #AirPollution #SCAP #NationalCleanAirProgram #CleanAirAction Bhavay Sharma | Prakash Doraiswamy | Prayash Giria | Pawan Mulukutla | Madhav Pai | Kaustubh Chuke | Kishore W Wankhade, Ph.D. | Azra Khan | Sanjar Ali | Manjari Srivastava | Vandana Tyagi | Ashish Sharma, Ph.D | Harshvardhan Bhoite | Dr. Sandeep Madhwal | Rajendra Bariya | Chaittanya Damodar | Komal Daal | Virabh Lad | Prateek Sengupta | Dr. Rahul Tiwari | Kshitija Pendharkar | Praveen K Singh
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📢 Watch the 7th episode of The Urban Q podcast! Jaya Dhindaw connects with Alain Bertaud (Senior Fellow, NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management), a renowned urbanist and researcher, to explore people-centered planning in cities. Alain highlights the pivotal role played by market forces in building accessible and responsive city infrastructure. He points out that in addition to spatial and technical expertise, economic data is necessary to understand what makes cities work. Urban planners, architects, and economists, working together, could affect urban policy decisions for productive cities which cater to affordable housing needs and the preferences of all residents. Tune in to the episode for a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics shaping our cities! ▶ YouTube: https://bit.ly/4cPrOjL 🎧 Spotify: https://bit.ly/3LBDNFO #TheUrbanQ #UrbanPlanning #EconomicPlanning #UrbanDevelopment #AffordableHousing #LiveableCities Madhav Pai | Rogier van den Berg | Robin King | Sudeshna Chatterjee | Pablo Lazo | Anjali Mahendra | World Resources Institute | WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
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Sidhi district in Madhya Pradesh is representative of the land use challenges, socio-economic and environmental issues confronting underdeveloped landscapes in India. However, it also has a high potential for nature-based solutions such as landscape restoration. This means that we can protect Sidhi’s forestland, grow more trees outside its forests and strengthen multiple ecosystem benefits for its people. This will not only help us mitigate climate risks, but also ensure food and nutrition security, better livelihood opportunities, and more jobs for local people. Sidhi's restoration journey began with watershed management and led to implementation of 8 other interventions such as assisted natural regeneration, mixed-species plantation, trees on boundaries and bamboo plantation among others. Learn more about how Sidhi's restoration potential was unlocked in this report: https://lnkd.in/dt-h8zU #GenerationRestoration #climatechange #livelihoods #landscaperestoration #circulareconomy #restorationeconomy #NbS Dr. Ruchika Singh | Kavita Sharma | Divya Sharma | Srishti Kochhar | Siddharth Edake | Jyoti Yadav | Nabajyoti Roy | Paresh Parab | Shweta P. | Kritika Gadhvi | Anjali Rao Koppala | Oindrila Basu | Raghav Srivastava | Meenakshi Kakar | Dushasana Mahanta | Major Ved Prakash Sharma
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LAUNCHED 📢 | We are delighted to announce the launch of Battery360 Alliance – a multi-stakeholder platform to amplify India’s efforts towards building a sustainable, circular, and resource-efficient battery ecosystem. The platform was launched in the presence of Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa, Dr. Anita Gupta, Head of Scientific Divisions (HOD), Department of Science and Technology, Sudhendu J. Sinha, Adviser, NITI Aayog, among other dignitaries from our partner organizations and industry representatives. The Alliance is supported by the UN Environment Programme, Global Environment Facility, Asian Development Bank (ADB), ICRIER, UL Standards & Engagement, and International Institute for Sustainable Development. India is committed to installing 425 GW of renewable energy capacity and achieving a 30% share of EVs in new vehicle sales by 2030. This transition, powered by lithium-ion batteries, requires a sustainable approach to resource efficiency, optimal usage, and safe disposal and management across the battery value chain. The Battery360 Alliance will work towards creating a sustainable and circular battery value chain by: ➡️ Fostering cross-sectoral collaborations between government, industry and academia. ➡️ Identifying current gaps and potential solutions to expedite battery circularity solutions. ➡️ Enabling knowledge exchange and promotion of good practices to effectively reduce battery waste and primary demand for critical minerals. ➡️ Prioritizing the implementation of research and technology advancements across the battery supply chain. Stay tuned for more updates on the Battery360 Alliance! #EVMatters #EVBattery #EnergyStorage #Battery360 #LithiumIonBatteries Madhav Pai | Mozaharul Alam | Pawan Mulukutla | Chaitanya Kanuri | Parveen Kumar, PhD | Mitradev Sahoo | Lalit Mudholkar | Abhishek Meshram | Jennifer Layke | Thiru Srinivasan | Amrita Goldar | Dinesh Sekar | Rajat Verma | Utkarsh Singh 🇮🇳 | Gaurav Dolwani | Darshan Virupaksha | Ganesh Madabattula, Ph.D. | A L N Rao | Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay | Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation | Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi | Amara Raja Energy & Mobility Ltd | BatX Energies | LICO Materials | Nunam
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📢 DROPPING TOMORROW | The Urban Q podcast Episode 7 – Prof. Alain Bertaud: Bringing Economics into People-Centric Urban Planning Jaya Dhindaw (Director, WRI India Ross Center) connects with Alain Bertaud (Senior Fellow at NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management), a renowned urbanist. He outlines the need to align urban planning with economic reasoning. He discusses interdisciplinary collaboration and market-responsive policies that are essential for people-centric urban infrastructure. Stay tuned! Subscribe to our YouTube/Podcast Channel for updates. 🔗 YouTube: bit.ly/TheUrbanQYT 🔗 Spotify: bit.ly/TheUrbanQSP #TheUrbanQ #UrbanPlanning #EconomicPlanning #UrbanDevelopment #AffordableHousing #LiveableCities Madhav Pai | Rogier van den Berg | Robin King | Sudeshna Chatterjee | Pablo Lazo | Anjali Mahendra | World Resources Institute | WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
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As our Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveils the Union Budget 2024-25 today, the following are key expectations from the budget by our Senior Fellows Amit Kumar and Dr. Arun Kumar Panda IAS (Retd.) to help Indian #MSMEs be future-ready as the economy undergoes a low-carbon transition. #Budget2024 #UnionBudget2024 #ResilientMSMEs #Climate Ulka Kelkar | Ashwini Hingne | Subrata Chakrabarty | Saransh Bajpai | Arpan Golechha | Mani Bhushan Jha | Apoorva R. | Priyal Shah | Mehul Patel | Abhijit Namboothiri | Pooja Yadav. | Steffi Olickal | Shreyas Joshi | Apoorva Grover | Dennis Baby |
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#ACE2024 Meet the speakers of tomorrow's Thematic Session at Accelerating Clean Energy (ACE) in India. WRI India is hosting a Roundtable Discussion on Decarbonizing India’s building sector- Research goals for the future on Day 2 of the event. India has set an ambitious target to achieve a net zero economy by 2070. The commitment demands all sectors to align their development strategies towards this goal. As India’s building and construction sector is growing at a rapid pace, the demand for essential construction materials like steel, cement, aluminum, bricks, and others is expected to increase multifold. Buildings consumed a third of India’s total electricity production in 2023-24. As per CSTEP's systems dynamics model Sustainable Alternative Futures for India (SAFARI), the building sector’s contribution to India’s total GHG emissions in 2020 was estimated at approximately 26%. To achieve decarbonization goals, strategies must address embodied operational and end of life carbon from buildings. This session will deliberate on key gaps in current research on reducing carbon across the whole building life cycle in India. 📆 Date: 23rd July 2024 🕒 Time: 9.30 am to 12 noon 📌 Venue: Silver Oak, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dx2JTQfx 👆 Click here for the ongoing event's details: https://lnkd.in/dniMT54f #BuildinsgDecarbonization #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyTransition Sumedha Malaviya | Deepak Tewari | Dhilon Subramanian | Shyny Sam | Fairuz Loutfi | Roxana Slavcheva | Bharath Jairaj | Deepak Krishnan | WRI Energy
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HAPPENING TODAY | Launch of Battery360 Alliance 🗓️ Date: July 22, 2024 🕒 Time: 6 PM – 8PM 📍 Venue: India Habitat Center 🔋Battery360 Alliance is a multi-stakeholder alliance that brings together government institutions, industry players, research organizations, and technical experts to enable cross-sectoral collaborations. It aims to develop innovative solutions and roadmaps to co-create a sustainable battery value chain in India. The launch will be followed by a panel session that will delve into key dimensions of battery circularity like: ️ ➡️ Criticality of robust policies and standards ➡️ Leveraging technological advancements for enhanced efficiency research ➡️ Significance of collaborative problem-solving Join us here: https://lnkd.in/gkYjY7qG #EVMatters #Battery #Battery360Alliance Pawan Mulukutla | Chaitanya Kanuri | Dr.K.Bala Subramanian | Thiru Srinivasan | Trupti Deshpande | Amrita Goldar | Dinesh Sekar | Rajat Verma | Utkarsh Singh 🇮🇳 | Gaurav Dolwani | Avanish Tripathi | Darshan Virupaksha | Rohan Singh Bais ⚡🔋♻️🇮🇳 | Ganesh Madabattula, Ph.D. | A L N Rao | Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay