TerraGreen - March 2023

In this issue

This special edition of TerraGreen has covered a wide range of contributions on India’s leadership at G20, mainstreaming sustainable development, climate change, migration, Prime Minister’s LiFE Movement, and climate smart agriculture. These contributions make strong, informative, and well-analysed suggestions for mainstreaming sustainable development and climate resilience for collective action.

India's Leadership at the G20 - All Nations to Benefit from India's Stewardship

In this stimulating article, Aarti Khosla highlights that the G20 mantle allows India the opportunity to influence the energy track discussions, while emphasizing the need for energy security and demonstrating rapid investment in clean energy goals.

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India's G20 Presidency Delineating Economic and Emissions Growth and Promoting Energy Transition

G20 presidency serves as a big opportunity for India, to raise this challenge that emerging markets face, around delinking economic and emissions growth and promoting energy transition, and garnering suitable solutions from the global community in terms of finance and technology. Towards this, it may focus on scaling up risk mitigation mechanisms, financing mechanisms, Just Transition, integrating a risk-return-impact lens, and creating an enabling ecosystem. This insightful article by Namita Vikas looks further into each of these areas.

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5 Ways India Can Ensure The G20 Supports Business To Deliver A Cleaner And Sustainable Future

In this thoughtful article, Rasmus Valanko and Gitika Mohta say that we are in the decisive decade for climate action. Global emissions must be cut in half by 2030, to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. With India's presidency of the G20, India has a unique opportunity to chart a healthier, safer, more sustainable future not just for its own citizens but also for others on our shared planet.

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Pioneering Climate Finance in India TCCL Helping India to Realize its Climate Goals

Climate Finance has always been viewed as a public sector initiative. India's ambitious plans were constrained by the inadequate capacity of such institutions to meet the agility, innovation, and deep understanding required to finance dynamic cleantech sector. TCCL has played an important role in mainstreaming of emerging sectors such as solar rooftop, energy efficiency, electric mobility, and water treatment. TCCL has been able to do this by developing a profound understanding of the rapidly evolving sector including technical, commercial, regulatory, contractual, and E&S expertise. In this succinct article, Manish Chourasia says about challenges to crowd-in capital from global north and role of TCCL in channelizing these funds.

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Hariyali Gram Empowering Rural India to Lead the LIFE Movement

In this succinct article, Charu Lata and Akanksha Golchha highlight the transformative Hariyali Gram initiative in Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra states in India. Hariyali Gram is a women-led initiative with an emphasis on policy implementation and scalable business solutions for the adoption of climate-friendly solutions at the village level.

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Indo-German Climate and Environment Cooperation Adds a New Highlight on Forests

Preserving India's precious wetlands and fighting the global threat of marine litter, protecting the beauty and importance of the Himalayan regions, ending landfills of waste and creating green jobsIndo-German Climate and Environment Cooperation addresses a wide range of topics. Both countries have been working together since more than 60 years bilaterally as well as internationally. Further, India has been a priority country in particular for the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Government from its start in 2008 support climate action and biodiversity conservation. Read on to know more...

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Ensuring Reservoir Sustainability under Changing Climate A Case Study on the Salaulim Reservoir, Goa

In this succinct article, Dr Ashwini Pai Panandiker says that very few studies have addressed the climate change impact on multi-purpose reservoir performance and deriving adaptive policies for possible future scenarios. Considering that the political and technical measures to adapt to climate change take place at a local level, site-specific studies are urgently needed. To address this, a case study on the Salaulim reservoir in Goa was undertaken. Read on to know more...

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Climate Change, Migration and Vulnerability to Trafficking Exploring the Extent and Impact

In this incisive article, Daljeet Kaur and Ritu Bharadwaj present empirical evidence on the links between climate change, migration, and trafficking and explore the extent and impact of climate change on distress migration and human trafficking in two diverse areas affected by slow-onset and rapid-onset climatic events. The research conducted by International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and supported by Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) unpacks the underlying drivers that policymakers should target to deal with this nexus.

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Mainstreaming Sustainable Development through Climate-Smart Agriculture By Promoting Evidence-Based Research

The Resilience project supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway) has tested and validated selected integrated climate smart agriculture (CSA) technologies in Odisha and Assam states in India over the last four years. Farmer-led demonstration trials were conducted with the active support of project partners and multi-stakeholders. In this article, Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Mehreteab Tesfai, and Amaresh Kumar Nayak present two good practices of CSA and their key research results.

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Enhancing Livelihood of Farmers and Forest-dependent Communities Through Carbon Financing Mechanism in India

Carbon financing is a result-based mechanism that allows companies wishing to offset their GHG emissions to buy carbon credits generated from their projects. In this crisp article, Aniruddh Soni tells us that TERI is developing several Carbon Finance projects via Voluntary Carbon Markets in the AFOLU sector. The beneficiaries involved in the carbon finance project developed under ARR are small-scale farmers, who are practising sustainable agroforestry practices within their private farmlands. On the other hand, REDD+ projects aim at benefiting the forest-dependent communities along with the forest department.

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Plastic Waste Management in India Importance of Data

In India, plastic waste management has long been a challenge and is considered an issue mainly due to the lack of infrastructure, efficient systems for collecting and processing plastic. In this analytical article, Mandavi Singh has considered estimates of all plastics for the reporting year 2018-19 to understand the plastic production, consumption and end-of-life data along with the recycling from available data sources. This is to develop a clear comprehension about the plastic scenario in India and to develop a quantitative understanding of the size and nature of major commodity plastic production, consumption, and waste flows in India.

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Tourism in India through the Lens of Sustainability

In this thought-provoking article, Swati Sharma and Palak Khanna say that tourism in India contributes significantly to the economic sector and it has high growth potential as well. Therefore, sustainability in tourism has become imperative in today's scenario. Promotion of sustainable tourism can enable mindful utilization of existing resources and sensitization of tourists with behavioural nudges.

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Need for Nations to 'Mainstream' Sustainable Development With Inclusive Policymaking, Societal Participation, Innovation

Dr Rajiv Chhibber is Vice President, External Affairs at Sahajanand Medical Technologies, a leading developer and manufacturer of minimally invasive coronary stent and vascular systems. In this interview, he reminisces launching the first-of-its-kind Heat Action Plan for the city of Ahmedabad, which is now a role model for many states who have embarked upon the same. It was also the first city in South Asia to create a comprehensive early warning system and preparedness plan for extreme heat events fuelled by climate change. Keep reading to know more...

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Enhancement of Conscious Consumerism By Integration of Sustainable Natural Pigments in Textiles

In this article, Mehak Kaur and Mayurika Goel highlight that the Natural Products Group at the Sustainable Agriculture Programme of TERI is working on red pigment production by naturally occurring coloured microbes for application in the textile industry. Creation of colours through fermentation of non-pathogenic fungi on agricultural waste-based media can be used to produce pigments with bioactivities such as antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer and others in a sustainable way.

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TerraGreen is one of the most respected monthly magazine dedicated to informing and enlightening its readers on issues of environment, energy, and sustainable development. Launched in 2004, TerraGreen has made an indelible impression on the minds of readers, both in India and across the world. Today, it enjoys a readership of over 40,000 and a subscriber base of close to 5,000. Helping the magazine along in its endeavour to take issues of absolute importance to the people is the fact that it is the only publication of its kind in the market; not only does it inform and educate, it does so in a subtle and reader-friendly manner. After all, the aim is to reach as many people as possible!

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