Events
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Apply Now | Land Accelerator South Asia, 2021
The Land Accelerator is a first-of-its-kind four month program, anchored by a six-day workshop; fostering entrepreneurship and supporting leaders who are restoring farms and forests across South Asia.
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A Discussion on Tracking India’s Electric Vehicle Industrial Evolution
Why does it matter? Why now?
With the diffusion of Electric Vehicle (EV) technology in India, upcoming and established firms have begun launching new products, services and business models to increase their competitiveness. Ripples of change are becoming evident in...
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Developing Strategies for BESCOM to Maximise Renewable Energy Sales to Commercial & Industrial Consumers
Over the last 7 years, WRI India, through its flagship initiative Green Power Market Development Group (GPMDG) has worked with C&I consumers to scale up Renewable Energy (RE) in India by supporting them with transactions, informing about government policies, and piloting some innovative...
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Book Talks @ WRI Engage | Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi
WRI Book Talks engages with timely and compelling new books, and discusses their implications for policy and action.
Please join us for a discussion between Dr Amita Baviskar, author of Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi, and Dr Shahana Chattaraj and Dr Madhu Verma...
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Online Training: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Inclusive Climate Action Planning for Urban Local Bodies – Assam, Sikkim and Tripura
Cities being the engines of growth and centres for economic, social & cultural development, are also the biggest consumers of energy. Cities contribute to 70% of global CO2 emissions, emanating from transport, industry, buildings and waste contributing towards climate change. Further, air...
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TheCityFix Labs: Accelerating Access Prize
Inviting proposals for WASH & Healthy Space initiatives & challenges
Are you a non-profit organization with an innovative and scalable solution that addresses Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) and Healthy Spaces related challenges faced by vulnerable and...
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Online Training: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Inclusive Climate Action Planning for Urban Local Bodies – Punjab, Haryana and Delhi
Cities being the engines of growth and centres for economic, social & cultural development, are also the biggest consumers of energy. Cities contribute to 70% of global CO2 emissions, emanating from transport, industry, buildings and waste contributing towards climate change. Further, air...
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Online Training: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Inclusive Climate Action Planning for Urban Local Bodies - Chhattisgarh
Cities being the engines of growth and centres for economic, social & cultural development, are also the biggest consumers of energy. Cities contribute to 70% of global CO2 emissions, emanating from transport, industry, buildings and waste contributing towards climate change. Further, air...
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Driving Road Safety and Traffic Management through Emerging Technologies
Road traffic crashes are an epidemic in India. It is not only a public health issue, where around 1,50,000 people lose their lives on Indian roads every year but also an economic one....
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Online Training: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Inclusive Climate Action Planning for Urban Local Bodies - Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand
Cities being the engines of growth and centres for economic, social & cultural development, are also the biggest consumers of energy. Cities contribute to 70% of global CO2 emissions, emanating from transport, industry, buildings and waste contributing towards climate change. Further, air...
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Online Training: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Inclusive Climate Action Planning for Urban Local Bodies – Madhya Pradesh
Cities being the engines of growth and centres for economic, social & cultural development, are also the biggest consumers of energy. Cities contribute to 70% of global CO2 emissions, emanating from transport, industry, buildings and waste contributing towards climate change. Further, air...
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Electric Vehicles Ready Streets and Buildings
Access to public charging infrastructure at strategic public locations and private charging infrastructure at residential/office buildings is a crucial requirement to enabling higher rates of early EV adoption as well as for mainstreaming the transition. To...
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Ideas to improve TANGEDCO’s Financial Situation - Subsidies, Profitability, Improvement Levers and New Tariff Design
The Sustainable Energy Transformation in Tamil Nadu (SET-TN) initiative is hosting a webinar to discuss ideas to improve the financial health of the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO). SET-TN is a collaborative initiative by Auroville Consulting (AVC), Citizen Consumer...
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Online Training: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Inclusive Climate Action Planning for Urban Local Bodies – Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
Cities being the engines of growth and centres for economic, social & cultural development, are also the biggest consumers of energy. Cities contribute to 70% of global CO2 emissions, emanating from transport, industry, buildings and waste contributing towards climate change. Further, air...
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True Opportunity of Restoring Land: Lessons from India
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Online Training: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Inclusive Climate Action Planning for Urban Local Bodies – Maharashtra
Cities being the engines of growth and centres for economic, social & cultural development, are also the biggest consumers of energy. Cities contribute to 70% of global CO2 emissions, emanating from transport, industry, buildings and waste contributing towards climate change. Further, air...
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Handbook of Clean Construction Practices in Surat: Developed Under Surat Clean Air Action Plan 2020
World Resources Institute (WRI) India, in collaboration with Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) and Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), is facilitating the development of the Surat Clean Air Action Plan (SCAP), supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (...
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Online Training: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Inclusive Climate Action Planning for Urban Local Bodies - Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Cities being the engines of growth and centres for economic, social & cultural development, are also the biggest consumers of energy. Cities contribute to 70% of global CO2 emissions, emanating from transport, industry, buildings and waste contributing towards climate change. Further, air...
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Building a post-COVID Climate Resilient Future: State-level Experiences from Sikkim and Madhya Pradesh
With extreme events like droughts, cyclones and floods increasingly becoming the norm, climate change threatens to unravel decades of developmental progress in India. States, recognizing these threats are working to create sound plans and policies to account climate risks, and to climate-proof...
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Accelerating Access Coalition (aaco) Story Challenge
Inviting Narratives for WASH & Healthy Space Initiatives & Challenges
Are you an independent scholar, writer, or a communicator based in India with a track record of writing on urbanization, sustainable development, climate change, water, human development, or...
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Online Training: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Inclusive Climate Action Planning for Urban Local Bodies - Gujarat
Cities being the engines of growth and centres for economic, social & cultural development, are also the biggest consumers of energy. Cities contribute to 70% of global CO2 emissions, emanating from transport, industry, buildings and waste contributing towards climate change. Further, air...
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MSME Training Series #02: Tracking your emissions - Corporate GHG Accounting and Reporting
The journey towards climate-resilient, low-carbon operations begins with accounting and reporting your greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This initial step can open huge mitigation opportunities for companies and MSMEs, allowing them to reduce costs, build preparedness towards regulatory risks,...
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Re-Powering Wind Energy in Tamil Nadu
The renewable energy sector has largely helped shape the clean energy transition in our country. Within it, the contribution of wind energy is substantial – close to 38 GW of installed capacity in...
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Online Training: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Inclusive Climate Action Planning for Urban Local Bodies - Kerala and Goa
Cities being the engines of growth and centres for economic, social & cultural development, are also the biggest consumers of energy. Cities contribute to 70% of global CO2 emissions, emanating from transport, industry, buildings and waste contributing towards climate change. Further, air...
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Discussion on Depot and Charging Management for Electric Buses
Ensuring daily operations, meeting growing passenger demands on quality and reducing costs – these are the challenges transport companies face, every single day. Fulfilling these requirements begins at the depots, where buses are prepared for daily operation, cleaned, refueled, maintained and...
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Transit Oriented Development and Road Safety Session 4 | Financing & Implementing Road Safety in TOD
Join us for the fourth and final session of the workshop series on ‘Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and Road Safety’. This session will focus on the ‘Finance’ and ‘Implement’ stages of the TOD-framework and discuss innovative financing tools, development incentives, implementation and...
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Transit Oriented Development and Road Safety Session 3 | Planning and Designing Road Safety Measures in TOD
Join us for the third session of the workshop series on ‘Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and Road Safety’. This session will discuss the planning and designing of physical infrastructure and strategic solutions that ensure road safety within a TOD project.
Here is the full...
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Transit Oriented Development and Road Safety | Session 2 | Assessing and Enabling Road Safety for TOD
Join us for the second session of the workshop series on ‘Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and Road Safety’. This session delves into assessing the road safety readiness of a city for implementing a safe TOD and ways of using road safety as a messaging for setting up an enabling environment...
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Launch of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) EValuator
Pollution in Indian cities has earned global notoriety. 14 out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India and vehicular emissions contribute to a large share of this pollution.
Here is the full recording of the event....
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Promoting Forest Conservation through Public Funding
Governments around the world are grappling with the twin-edged challenge of a distressing pandemic and painful economic recession. As economic revival becomes the top priority, WHO has reminded everyone of an ‘intimate and delicate relationship between people and planet’ and emphasized on the...
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Book Talks @ WRI Engage | India Moving: How Migration shapes India's Economy and Society
WRI India is delighted to launch a new series of virtual Book Talks that engage with timely and compelling new books, and discuss their implications for policy and action.
Please join us for a discussion between Prof Chinmay Tumbe, author of India Moving: A History of Migration, and Dr....
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Wind Energy Technology in Tamil Nadu: What the Future Holds
India’s transition to clean energy has largely been driven by the Renewable Energy (RE) sector. The total wind energy installed in India is close to 36.5 GW, fourth highest in world after China, US and Germany (March 2019).
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Transport Sector Stakeholder Consultations | Session 03 – Towards Decarbonization of Freight Transport in India
Road transport in India is dominant both in terms of traffic share and contribution to the economy. Road transport – the largest consumer of commercial fuel energy within the transportation system – accounts for 87% of the emissions from this sector.
Despite its impact on transport...
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Advancing Strategic Investments in Rural Energy Storage Systems
India is predominantly a rural country with two-thirds of its population and 70% of its workforce residing in rural areas. The Indian rural economy constitutes 46% of the national income and, despite the rise of urbanization, more than half of India’s population is projected to be rural by 2050...
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Book Talks @ WRI Engage | Climate Change From the Streets: Poor Communities and Environmental Justice
WRI India is delighted to launch a new series of virtual Book Talks that engage with timely and relevant new books, and discuss their implications for policy and action.
Please join us for a discussion with Prof Michael Mendez, author of Climate Change from the Streets: How...
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Transport Sector Stakeholder Consultations | Session 02: Towards Decarbonization of Urban Transport in India
Rapid urbanization has led to a significant rise in travel demand, with passenger activity increasing by 267% during 2005-2015. Longer trip distances, increased share of private motorized transport, and declining share of public and non-motorized transport have resulted in increased congestion,...
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MSME Training Series | #01: Fundamentals of Climate Change and the Business Case for Action
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the highly inequitable nature of economic impacts with MSMEs being the worst hit, despite playing a critical role in the economy. Climate change poses a similar challenge, with disastrous and inequitable impacts across economies, industry and vulnerable...
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Transport Sector Stakeholder Consultations | Session 01: Opportunities for Transformative Climate Action in Transport Sector in India
The transport sector, which includes road transport, railways, aviation and shipping, is one of the fastest growing sectors in India. In 2015, emissions from this sector represented about 10.5% of the country’s total emissions (...
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How Cities Can Build Back Better with Nature Based Solutions
The unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic has only highlighted the need to put nature at the center of the rebuilding efforts, not only to build back better, but also to prevent a future pandemic. Nature-based Solutions (NBS) are the way forward to build resilient cities and this is...
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Building back better: A Deep Dive into the Chandni Chowk Redevelopment Project
Chandni Chowk was one of the important streets in the walled city of Shahjahanabad. It was so named because the moonlight (chandni, in Hindi) would reflect on the waters of a canal that ran through it. Throughout the Mughal, Colonial, and post-independence India, Chandni Chowk remained...
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How Cities can Build Back Better in the New Normal with Cycling
The ongoing pandemic has led to a drop in public transport as well as private vehicles, leading to a surge in cycling across the world. Indian cities too have seen a growth in bicycle usage and...
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Webinar: De-risk your business
No accelerator is complete without a group session on the business model canvas. The discussion aims at understanding and identifying the important building blocks of your business. Participants will learn how to identify the critical business model assumptions of their own company, and then...
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Land Accelerator South Asia Cohort 2020
Download the press release hereJuly 17, 2020
The World Resources Institute India, along with Sangam Ventures, New Delhi is proud to introduce the first...
Upcoming Events
Past Events
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RESTORATION OPPORTUNITIES ATLAS: Building Information Bridges for People, Forests and Landscapes
December 18, 2018 06:30 PM IST -
WEBINAR: Potential Impact of Corporate Climate Action in India
November 28, 2018 03:30 PM até 04:30 PM IST -
Overview of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Estimates for India
November 16, 2018 03:30 PM até 04:30 PM IST