TERI, 3WAYSTE, IFF sign MoU for waste management
The Dollar Business Bureau In order to further encourage waste management capabilities of India, Delhi-based TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), French waste management company the Innovative Finance Foundation (IFF) and Geneva-based innovation foundation 3WAYSTE signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday to work together to unveil a breakthrough technology for civic solid waste management. Coinciding with the Earth Day, the MoU was inked in the presence of Alexander Ziegler, the Ambassador of France to India. The Ambassador detailed that a country trying to be sustainable and reducing the impact of humans on the environment are great challenges and added that India and France are committed to meet these challenges. “We need political leadership, but also innovation, technologies and a strong involvement from the private sector and the civil society. ...
UNSW partners TERI to develop application for coal seam gas wells
The Dollar Business Bureau The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) has announced it will partner The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) to develop industrial application for the phenomenon in coal seams gas wells controlled by ONGC. "A novel Australian research breakthrough that promises to dramatically increase gas yields from coal seams and biogas plants will be trialled for industrial application for the first time in partnership with ONGC," UNSW Australia announced in a statement on Tuesday. In its recent funding, the Australia India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) has approved a new grant one million Australian Dollar to support the project. Simply by adding a common synthetic dye, microbiologists at UNSW Australia have demonstrated a tenfold increase in the volume of methane ...
India to come up with new National Energy Policy
The Dollar Business Bureau India is set to become the main driver of the global energy demand from 2020s and is in the middle of transformation mainly driven by the energy sector. In this regard, ‘What matters to India, will matter to the world and that’s the reason we are focusing on India in 2015,’ says Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA Chief Economist was addressing a workshop on ‘India Energy Outlook’, which was jointly organised by the IEA and National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, with the support of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). In his address, the IEA economist said, ‘India needs $100 billion to meet its growing energy demand and ...
