Events
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Just Transition and Skill Development in the Electric Vehicle Industry
The Indian automotive industry is the fifth largest in the world and creates nearly 30 million jobs. However, the current transport sector is undergoing a seismic shift as the country moves towards the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) to support decarbonization goals. With India’s ambitious...
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Role of Scenario Planning in Tamil Nadu’s Energy Transition
Solar PV and Wind energy in Tamil Nadu accounts for nearly 45% of the total installed capacity and 20-25% of generation mix. With India announcing an ambitious 500 GW of non-fossil fuel capacity target by 2030, utilities at the state level will play a crucial role in managing addition of...
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Dialogue on Mini Grid Implementation in Jharkhand
As of 2019, there were more than 14,000 mini grid projects operating in India. Jharkhand is home to more than 250 mini grids of varied sizes spread across districts of the state, implemented by a variety of organizations impacting numerous citizens and creating immense value for stakeholders....
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Launch of the Clean Construction Pilot Project in Surat
WRI India, in collaboration with Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) and Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), and supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, recently developed the Surat Clean Air Action Plan (SCAP) and the ‘Handbook of Clean Construction Practices.’
Building construction is...
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Demand Centric Pathways to 450 GW + by 2030: Role of DISCOMS in Supporting C&I Customers to Enhance their RE Demand
Commercial and Industrial (C&I) consumers in India account for close to 50% of the country’s electricity consumption. The sector is also the primary source of revenue for the electricity utilities / distribution companies (Discoms) in India because of the tariff structure, where C&I...
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Rajasthan’s Sustainable Energy Transition: Kick-off Workshop
Rajasthan is among the leading renewable energy (RE) states in India - with installed capacity of solar and wind at an impressive 37% of the state's total installed capacity. There is a significant opportunity for the state to achieve a higher renewable energy-based future - one that is...
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Launching 3I Mobility for Hyderabad Metro
Hyderabad Metro, the second longest metro rail system in the country, is well-positioned to enable sustainable urban transportation, with the potential to reduce traffic, lower transport emissions, and improve access to affordable transportation for commuters. However, low ridership adversely...
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Safety Readiness of Electric Vehicle Batteries in India
The adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in India is slowly taking a well-defined path of growth, especially in the e-2W and e-3W segments. Batteries form a critical component of EVs, accounting for nearly 30-40% of their total cost. The performance and safety of EVs are also linked with their...
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Role of Digitalization in Renewable Energy Sector – Strengthening the Grid
India is keen to continue its focus on decarbonization by increasing the renewable energy (RE) capacity. In Glasgow summit 2021, India announced to raise the non-fossil fuel capacity to over 500 GW by 2030 and 50 % of nation’s power requirement to be met by RE. These targets convey the need of...
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Ask Me Anything: Fireside Chat with Land Accelerator Alumni
Join us to listen to our five Land Accelerator South Asia alumni sharing their incredible entrepreneurial journey. Tips, strategies and connections have been most instrumental in their companies’ growth and greater impact. Know their stories and learn how an acceleration program like the Land...
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Working Paper Release: Benchmarking Energy Performance of Offices in Kochi
The buildings and construction sector accounted for 36 percent of global energy use and 39 percent of energy and process-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2018. In India, buildings were responsible for 33 percent of total electricity consumption in 2018–19 with more than 60 percent of...
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How 10 Indian Cities are Reimagining Neighbourhoods for Young Children & Caregivers
Over 36 million children aged 5 and under live in India’s urban areas, many of them in vulnerable conditions. Studies indicate that healthy childhood development is highly affected by a child’s access to a safe and stimulating public realm, including green open spaces and opportunities to play....
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Launch of STAMP Nagpur
Nagpur is Maharashtra's third-largest city and one of the most industrialized urban centers in India. As Nagpur—like many Tier-2 cities in India—expands to incorporate this urban growth, it presents a challenge to Nagpur public transport agencies. Public transport mode share currently sits at 16...
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Roadmap for Scaling Trees Outside Forests in India: Learnings on Policy Incentives from Six Indian States
Nature-based solutions like landscape restoration and interventions like agroforestry and expansion of Trees outside Forests (ToF) can be cost-effective to meet the triple challenge of recovery of nature, providing for people’s needs, and mitigating climate risks. Restoring lands can bring...
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The Better E-Bus Challenge 2022: World's First Accelerator for E-Buses
Electric bus (e-bus) adoption in India is gaining traction as multiple cities have embarked on the journey of electrifying their bus-based public transport systems in the recent years. This traction is aligned with the recent impetus from the Government of India to aggregate e-bus demand under...
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Low Carbon Growth in India: Drivers and Trade-offs
Join WRI India to discuss the key findings from a new working paper that explores two climate scenarios for India using the India Energy Policy Simulator (EPS), an open-source, systems dynamics model.
WATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING HERE...
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Electrification Of The Urban Freight Sector - Strategies, Challenges And Way Forward
India’s freight sector plays an important role in ensuring speedy, efficient, and economical transport of goods across the country. Today, close to 71% of the freight transported in the country is completed on road. Thus, road freight movement contributes significantly to transport related air...
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Launching TheCityFix Labs India: Accelerating Nature-based Solutions
Building on the success of previous TheCityFix Labs (TCFL) India challenges on water, waste and energy management, and...
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Shifting Household Energy Use in Bangalore, India: Using Behaviorally Informed Energy Reports
The WRI’s The Living Lab for Equitable Climate Action, WRI India and grassroots NGO Technology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE) have collaborated on a new working paper titled...
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Mumbai EV Cell Launch
The transportation sector accounts for roughly a quarter of total GHG emissions in Mumbai. Maharashtra State EV Policy 2021 envisions the faster adoption of clean mobility with ambitious targets; to that end, Mumbai EV Cell is being launched.
WATCH THE FULL EVENT HERE...
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Consultation Workshop on Financing for Decarbonisation of Transport
During the Conference of the Parties (COP21) developing nations emphasized the need for financial and technical support required to meet the climate goals set by the international community. Efficient mobilization of finance can provide the necessary infrastructure and impetus to the growth of...
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Scaling-up Solar Irrigation: Lessons From Policies and Programmes
By 2050, the demand for freshwater, energy and food is expected to increase significantly driven by population growth, urbanization, changing diets and socio-economic development. Meeting this rising demand against the backdrop of a changing climate and resource constraints mean that a siloed,...
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Business Charter Launch: Value-chain Approach to Decarbonize the Building and Construction Sector in India
At COP26 in Glasgow, India presented a long-term vision to go net-zero by 2070. Such vision would require deep decarbonization from all key economic sectors, especially the building and construction sector as it contributed to roughly 25% to India’s carbon emissions in 2016. Businesses are...
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Stories to Watch: India Edition 2022
In November 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a long-term vision to achieve net-zero by 2070, efforts towards which will begin in earnest this year. This year, on the second edition of Stories to watch, Dr. OP Agarwal, CEO of WRI India, will share unfolding stories about the most...
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Launch of EV Charging Guidebook for Shopping Malls in Delhi
The Government of NCT of Delhi announced the Delhi Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy in August 2020, with a vision to promote the adoption of electric vehicles in the city and to make Delhi, the EV Capital of India. The policy has already undertaken various initiatives and progressive steps to move...
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Distributed Renewable Energy Technologies for Energy Transition and Livelihoods Discussion 2: Small Wind Turbines, Bioenergy
This session forms the second part of the DREG series with a focus on small wind, solar wind hybrid and bioenergy systems. Current energy generation and...
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Launch of H2 Bus TCO Evaluator
Finding sustainable ways to power the transport system has long been a vital component in tackling the climate crisis globally. When it comes to personal 2-wheeler and 4-wheeler segments, electric vehicles will have a dominant role to play in the coming years. However, as the size of a vehicle...
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Webinar on Prioritising Public EV Charging Infrastructure Locations
Availability of widespread public charging infrastructure is a crucial prerequisite to the growth of electric vehicles (EV). In the past few years, various land-owning agencies have come forward to provide land, at concessional rates, to private and public entities for the installation of public...
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Hydrogen from Biomass
Although hydrogen is a clean fuel, with multiple applications across industry, power, and mobility, its production from fossil fuels dilutes its potential as a decarbonizing vector. However, hydrogen produced from renewable sources is emission free and is considered a green fuel. One of the...
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Energy Access Explorer Launch
Access to electricity is a pre-requisite for achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of good health, quality education, clean water, sanitation and eventually, socio-economic development.
WATCH THE FULL EVENT HERE...
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Land Accelerator South Asia 2021: Valedictory Ceremony
The Land Accelerator South Asia program supported 58 restoration entrepreneurs this year with funding support from IKEA Foundation and program support from our ecosystem partners Startup India, AGNIi, and Invest India...
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Priority Sectors’ Emissions Regulation through City Specific Clean Air Action Plan Components Implementation
World Resources Institute (WRI India) and Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) are organizing a stakeholder workshop to understand the requirements of cities to implement the interventions identified for control of road dust re-suspension and strengthen the already existing framework of actions for...
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Launch of Workplace Charging Guidebook for Corporates in Delhi
The Government of NCT of Delhi announced the Delhi Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy in August 2020, with a vision to promote the adoption of electric vehicles in the city and to make Delhi the EV Capital of India. The policy aims to improve Delhi’s air quality by aiming to increase the share of...
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Launch of Policy Paper: Integrating Electricity Priorities into Healthcare and Education in India
Date: 26 November 2021
Time: 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: The Claridges, New Delh
WATCH THE FULL...
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Demo Days: Land Accelerator South Asia 2021
India’s landmass has a significant potential for forest protection and landscape restoration – around 43% of the available land can sequester 3 to 4.3 billion tons of above ground carbon by 2040. This can also lead to a range of benefits including biodiversity conservation, provisioning of...
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Roadmap for Tackling Food Loss and Waste in India: Policy, Practice and Partnerships
Reducing food loss and waste (FLW) is recognized globally as an opportunity to address the challenge of hunger, nutrition insecurity, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while also advancing economic development. A recently published working paper by WRI India and Food and Land Use (FOLU) India...
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Understanding Indian Consumers and Secondhand Clothing: Report Launch
India’s textile and apparel sector is economically and socially significant, contributing to the country’s GDP, exports, and employment. In 2018–19, it contributed 2 percent to the GDP and employed more than 45 million people (IBEF 2020). Currently, India is in a unique position of being both an...
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Enabling Residential EV Charging Infrastructure
Widespread access to residential charging is critical for accelerating e-mobility in Indian cities. The amended Model Building Byelaws by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) recommend that 20% of all parking spaces in new multi-unit buildings, including residential buildings, be...
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The Land Accelerator South Asia 2021 | Understanding and Leveraging Carbon Finance as an Instrument of Change Towards Climate Smart and Resilient Agriculture
This session will focus on increasing knowledge about climate action goals and objectives which businesses intend to set in an endeavour to decarbonize and move towards a net zero goal. This event will be particularly relevant for organisations that use development finance to implement various...
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Wave2Web Hack: Town Hall
Many cities in the global south face unreliable, inadequate, or polluted supply of freshwater. Rapidly growing urban populations and increased competition for water across sectors, coupled with climate change, pose increasing risks to water supplies.
There is an urgent need for...
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Virtual Launch of Mahra Rohtak Play(ce)making Competition
WRI India, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) is launching a placemaking competition for budding and young architects, urban designers and planners. The purpose of the competition is to reimagine public spaces frequented by youth in Rohtak to make them more...
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The Land Accelerator South Asia 2021 | Fireside Chat with Impact Investors
The past few years have seen the rise of impact investing as an important pillar in funding sustainability/restoration based start-ups. Impact investing seeks to add value to society. For the impact investors, value creation for society and financial returns are equally important.
For...
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Climate Change and Cities: Learning Series
The 10-part E-learning series is being launched in partnership with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) along with various alliance partners as well as city Authorities. It aims to build a common understanding of cities about...
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The Land Accelerator South Asia 2021 | Sales and Marketing Strategies To Grow Your Startup
Marketing strategy is not only to put the startup and its products on a path to success, but also to guide the sales team. To create and implement a marketing strategy, you need to engage a marketing strategist who understands startups and your particular vertical and is experienced in both...
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Connect Karo 2021
WRI India’s flagship event CONNECT KARO with its 2021 theme of CLEAN, GREEN and JUST explores pressing urban challenges and how best to address them. Join us for the event (for the first time entirely online) on how to make Indian cities inclusive, sustainable and climate forward....
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Growth of Distributed Renewable Energy Technologies for Energy Transition and Livelihoods| Discussion 1: Solar and Mini Grid System in Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, and Assam
Currently energy generation and management model in India is centralized, marked by the unidirectional flow of electricity from large power plants to the consumer. Drawbacks of this system are inherent transmission losses and consumers’ dependence on the central grid.
DREG system can...
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The Land Accelerator South Asia 2021 | Working with Small-Holder Farmers: Opportunities and Scope
The business models of many land restoration entrepreneurs rely on effectively engaging with smallholder farmers. It is essential to organize them to participate in the supply chain, and to empower them to participate in land-restoring, sustainable or organic farming and production methods....
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Urban Green Infrastructure Design for Air Pollution Mitigations and other Co-benefits
Extensive plantations or urban green infrastructure is one of the more cost-effective options that cities can adopt to mitigate air pollution, urban heat island effects, etc. Designing better plantation strategies with Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI) plant species is a beneficial option...
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Land Accelerator: Tracking your Impact and Creating a Successful Pitch Deck
Session 1: Tracking your Impact
6:30PM – 7:30PM
Why must impact-driven businesses track the change they are creating for their communities and beneficiaries? It’s easy to claim that a business is making an impact, but how does one measure this impact?...
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Reimagining Public Transport in India Through Electrification
The latest Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric vehicle (FAME) notification discusses aggregation of demand for electric buses in 9 cities of India. At a time when public bus agencies are struggling to identify resources for fleet augmentation, central and state subsidies...
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Launch of the Forum for Decarbonising Transport
In India, transport is the third most CO2 emitting sector with road transport contributed to more than 90% of total CO2 emissions (IEA, 2020; Ministry of Environment Forest and...
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The Land Accelerator South Asia 2021 | Managing for Growth
"Managing for Growth" - The art of developing a replicable model and accessing your customers to sustainably scale your business to predictable revenues and profitability. As a growing business, it is critical for you to have a business plan in place and interlink that to your start-ups everyday...
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Virtual Launch and Round Table on "Champions 12.3 for Reducing Food Loss and Waste for Sustainable Food Systems in India"
While there is a growing momentum in the private sector for introducing low-cost solutions, leveraging technology, and devising innovative business models in the areas of harvesting, storage, primary processing, and market linkage, reducing Food Loss and Waste (FLW) is yet to become a priority...
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Exploring Sustainable Mobility Solutions in Asia- Dialogue Series
A 3-part dialogues series on exploring sustainable mobility solutions in Asia, the event is being conducted by the Asian Century Foundation (ACF) in partnership with WRI India Ross Center.
The dialogue series will focus on various aspects of ‘Sustainable Mobility’ in India, China and...
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Chat4Change | GEDSI and WASH Service Provisioning: Mainstreaming Social Inclusion
WRI India believes that post-COVID Indian cities must aspire to citywide inclusive and resilient access to Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) and healthy spaces for all urban dwellers. This will ensure improved health, well-being and economic prosperity for all and lead to resilient urban...
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Accelerating Startups: Expert Talk & fireside chat with 3 successful restoration entrepreneurs
This session will advance into a Fireside chat with leading restoration entrepreneurs, post a 15-minute talk by sectoral expert from AGNIi (Accelerating Growth of New India's Innovations) about how AGNIi can help Land Accelerator start-ups in promoting their growth. The ultimate goal of this...
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Land Accelerator South Asia Cohort 2021
The Land Accelerator South Asia proudly presents the 2021 Cohort in line with the inspiring results from the...
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