Publications

This report was prepared with inputs from experts and speaker presentations at the APEC EGILAT-SCCP Workshop on Customs Best Practices to Identify Illegal Wood and Wood Products held in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam from 18-19 August 2017.

Lack of economic opportunity has been identified as one of the important bottlenecks for achieving development and empowerment as a result of which several financial inclusion projects and programs have been introduced globally in the past several decades. These financial inclusion instruments range between providing cash at hand to invest in...

In Southeast Asia, national governments are busy incorporating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into national development policies. But while central mandates for implementing the goals are expected to eventually “trickle down” to cities, this process is being slowed by the comprehensive nature of the goals, requiring significant...

The presentation talked highlighted Water-Energy-Food nexus based solution of water scarcity mitigation in India

The presentation was presented at a training program on Japanese low carbon technologies and best practices which was held on 27 Sep.January 2017, Pune, India. It highlighted IGES-TERI efforts to promote LCT deployment in India with special emphasis on their efforts to initiate Japan-India Technology Matchmaking platform (JITMAP)

Bangladesh, being one of the most vulnerable countries to natural disasters and global climate change, faces different individual and catastrophic shocks creating severe impact on the lives and livelihoods of the marginal segment of the population. In the context of climate change, action research within an experimental design is needed to identify...

Governments are increasingly seeking low-cost ways to curb residential energy use. This article examines the effect of one such innovative approach to energy savings in Bogor, Indonesia: a prepaid electricity meter system. The Bogor prepaid system requires households pay up front for their electricity as the meter tracks consumption and credit. By...

How collaborative governance can facilitate quality learning for sustainability in cities: A comparative case study of Bristol, Kitakyushu and Tongyeong

Training of trainers workshop on ‘dissemination of Japanese low carbon technologies in India’ was organised on September 27, 2017, at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Pune by TERI in collaboration with Maharashtra Energy Development Agency (MEDA). This is the material distributed in the workshop. The event was supported by ‘Institute for Global Environmental...

Considering the growing importance of scientific support to climate policy processes after the Paris Agreement, the current LCS-RNet steering group and government Focal Point members have leveraged various opportunities with concerned stakeholders to discuss the future of LCS-RNet, and having reviewed our past efforts and activities, we decided to...