Institut Veolia Environnement

Opening remarks

Dr R K Pachauri (wmv 18 mn 3 sec) , Director-General TERI

Welcome remarks

Dr Georges Valentis (wmv 3 mn 35 sec), Managing Director, Veolia Environment Institute

Dr Laurence Tubiana (wmv 3 mn 9 sec), Director, IDDRI

Special remarks

Dr A Ramachandran (wmv 11 mn 12 sec), Chairman, TERI Governing Council

Keynote address

Mrs Rohini Nilekani (wmv 14 mn 15 sec), Chairperson, Arghyam Foundation

Inaugural address

Vote of thanks

Chair: Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI

Keynote speech: Dr Diwesh Sharan (wmv 23 mn 55 sec), Principal Economist (Infrastructure), Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank

 Coffee break

Paper presentations

Chair: Dr J Gururaja, former UN Senior Technical Advisor

1. A critical appraisal of energy resource policies vis-à-vis development and growth in Northeast India
   Dr Chandan Mahanta (wmv 12 mn 33 sec), Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)
2. Energy shortfalls and system nutrient decline: an integrated research approach for addressing problems on the environment-poverty interface
   Dr Laura German (wmv 9 mn 19 sec), African Highlands Initiative, Uganda)
3. Ingredients for success in India's biomass industry
   Ms Dawn Lippert, Yale University, United States and Dr V V N Kishore (wmv 9 mn 43 sec), TERI, India
4. Women, economic development, and the environment
   Dr Ruth Nabinta (wmv 11 mn 51 sec), Adult Education and Social Development Institute, Nigeria
5. Utilization of sustainable energy systems for productive purposes in rural areas: the case of Benin Republic
   Mr Kevo Luc Tussou (wmv 8 mn 50 sec), Department of Energy, Benin

Panel discussion

Chair: Dr Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, TERI

Panelists:

• Dr J Gururaja (wmv 5 mn 07 sec), former UN Senior Technical Advisor
• Mr Jean Jaujay (wmv 5 mn 11 sec), Senior Manager, Energy Access Programme, Electricite de France (EDF)
• Dr Ananth Chikkatur (wmv 8 mn 52 sec), Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Mr Emiel van Sambeek (wmv 8 mn 32 sec), ECN Policy Studies, The Netherlands
• Mr Khalid Semmaoui (wmv 11 mn 9 sec), General Manager, TEMASOL, and Mr Philippe Bosse, AFD/FFEM
• Dr Moinul Sharif (wmv 11 mn 55 sec), Programme Officer, Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development (GNESD), Denmark

Lunch

Chair: Dr A Ramachandran, Chairman, TERI Governing Council

Keynote speech: Prof. Emil Salim (wmv 24 mn 3 sec), Former Minister for Population and Environment, Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation, Indonesia

Paper presentations

Chair: Ambassador C Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, TERI

1. Personal choices and associated emissions: Are "modern" lifestyles really sustainable?
   Ritu Mathur (wmv 10 mn 13 sec), TERI, India
2. Travel demand management: a sustainable policy option for transportation induced climate change in developing countries
   Mr Joshua Odeleye (wmv 11 mn 11 sec), Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology, Nigeria
3. A proposal to shift to using yearlong daylight saving time in India
   Prof Dilip Ahuja and Prof D P Sen Gupta (wmv 12 mn 42 sec), National Institute of Advanced Studies, India
4. Sustaining energy and resource use in groundwater: an optimal control model for scenario generation
   Dr Farhet Shaheen (wmv 14 mn 43 sec), India
5. Need for cost effective cold storage and solar energy penetration in the Indian food production and processing sector
   Mr I Thanumoorthi (wmv 13 mn 12 sec), TERI, India

Coffee break

Panel discussion

Chair: Ambassador C Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, TERI Delhi

Panelists:

• Dr Daniel Cukierman (wmv 8 mn), CEO Asia, Veolia Transport
• Dr Nicolas Gravel (wmv 11 mn 11 sec), Research Fellow, Centre de Science Humaines
• Prof Zhou Hongchun (wmv 13 mn 29 sec), Division Director, Department of Social Development, Development Research Centre of the State Council, China
• Ms Sylvia Lorek (wmv 6 mn 51 sec), Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Germany
• Mr S Sundar (wmv 9 mn 1 sec), Distinguished Fellow, TERI
• Dr Zhao Xingshu (wmv 15 mn 22 sec), Research Center for Sustainable Development, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Chair: Dr Laurence Tubiana, Director, IDDRI

Keynote speech: Prof. Mohan Munasinghe, Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Sri Lanka

Paper presentations

Chair: Dr Georges Valentis, Managing Director, VEI

1. Climate change and the challenge to achievement of Millennium Development Goals in the developing countries
   Dr Sarah Ahmed (wmv 12 mn 59 sec), Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India
2. Impacts of water and food security on human health in the mining region
   Ms Melba D'Souza (wmv 12 mn 1 sec), India
3. Threats to biodiversity conservation: vulnerable livelihoods and illegal resource extraction in the Royal Bardia National Park, Nepal
   Ms Shova Thapa (wmv 11 mn 53 sec), Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
4. Pilot study of household energy, indoor air pollution and health: assessment in households from four different regions in India
   Dr R Uma and Mr Santhosh Raghavan (wmv 13 mn 34 sec), TERI, India
5. Social carbon - adding value to sustainable development and renewable energy projects
   Mr Divaldo Rezende (wmv 16 mn 14 sec), Instituto Ecológica, Brazil
6. The human dimensions of forest change: observations from the air and on the ground
   Dr Harini Nagendra (wmv 12 mn 39 sec), Indiana University and ATREE, India

 Coffee break

Paper presentations (continued)

Chair: Dr Georges Valentis, Managing Director, VEI

Panel discussion

Chair: Prof. Akio Morishima (wmv 11 mn 18 sec), Chair of the Board of Directors, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan

Panelists:

• Dr Q K Ahmad (wmv 9 mn 33 sec) , Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad
• Dr Jean-Marie Gugenheim (wmv 15 mn 6 sec), Deputy General Manager, Veolia Water, Africa- Middle East - Indian Subcontinent
• Ms Preety Bhandari (wmv 8 mn 58 sec), Director, Policy Analysis Division, TERI
• Mrs Rohini Nilekani (wmv 6 mn 52), Chairperson, Arghyam Foundation
• Dr Ambuj Sagar (wmv 12 mn 51 sec), Senior Research Associate, John F Kennedy School of Government, and Assistant Dean for Strategic Planning, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Lunch

Paper presentations

Chair: Prof Y K Alagh (wmv 9 mn 13), Former Minister of Power, and Science and Technology, Government of India

1. Industrial ecology and environmental priorities
   Dr Ramesh Ramaswamy (wmv 10 mn 46 sec), Resource Optimization Initiative, India
2. Dignity through electricity for rural under-privileged
   Mr Jasjeet Singh Chaddah and Mr Kama Krishna (wmv 7 mn 35 sec), Grameen Surya Bijlee Foundation, India
3. Measurement of energy price induced technological change: a directional distance function approach
   Dr Surender Kumar (wmv 9 mn 34 sec), TERI University, India
4. Developing an economic value chain model for energy and livelihood security of the rural poor in India
   Ms Kumudhini Ravindra (wmv 8 mn 43 sec) and Dr Anjula Gurtoo, Indian Institute of Science, India

Coffee break

Panel discussion

Chair: Prof Y K Alagh, Former Minister of Power, and Science and Technology, Government of India

Panelists:

• Mr Raj Chengappa (wmv 9 mn 29 sec), Managing Editor, India Today
• Dr Hans Eerens (wmv 15 mn 22 sec), National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands
• Dr Laurence Tubiana (wmv 10 mn 46), Director, IDDRI
• Dr Vinod Vyasulu (wmv 4 mn 28 sec), Secretary, Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, Bangalore*

Paper presentations

Chair: Mr Eric Godelier, Ecole Polytechnique, France

1. Fuel cell operated reverse osmosis desalination system
   Dr Najem Al-Najem (wmv 12 mn 54 sec) , Kuwait University, Kuwait
2. Knowledge sharing and development of linkages for technology development, dissemination, and concomitant social action in small and micro enterprises
   Mr Abhishek Nath (wmv 13 mn 48 sec), TERI, India
3. Status of implementation of the Clean Development Mechanism in Brazil
   Ms Kamyla Cunha (wmv 11 mn 31 sec), University of Campinas, Brazil
4. Methanogenesis of in-situ coal: a leapfrogging technology for sustainable energy extraction from non-extractable coal deposits
   Mr Umesh Prasad Singh (wmv 10 mn 22 sec), Coal India Ltd, India

Coffee break

Chair : Dr Diwesh N Sharan, Principal Economist (Infrastructure), Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank
Keynote speech : Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala (wmv 32 mn 16 sec), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Panel discussion

Chair: Mr Eric Godelier (wmv 8 mn 53 sec), Ecole Polytechnique, France

Panelists:

• Dr Ananth Chikkatur (wmv 7 mn 2 sec), Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Dr Pierre Jaboyedoff (wmv 5 mn 9 sec), SORANE SA and SDC consultant
• Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
• Dr Ajay Mathur (wmv 12 mn 10 sec), Director-General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, India
• Dr Saswinadi Sasmojo (wmv 9 mn 36 sec), Director, Del Polytechnic of Informatics, Indonesia

 Lunch

Chair: Mr S Sundar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Panel discussion

• Prof Shuichiro Asao (wmv 13 mn 4 sec), Project Professor, AGS Promotion Office, University of Tokyo
• Dr R K Pachauri (wmv 16 mn 59 sec), Director-General, TERI
• Dr A K Vora (wmv 9 mn 22 sec), former Managing Director, Tata BP Solar
• Prof Wei Zhihong (wmv 14 mn 36 sec), Tsinghua University, Beijing
• Mr Kentaro Toyama (wmv 9 mn 9 sec), Group Leader, Technologies for Emerging Markets, Microsoft Research India

Coffee break

Special Remarks
Dr R K Pachauri (wmv 18 mn 17 sec), Director-General, TERI

Release of "GREEN India 2047 Renewed: Looking Back to Change Track"

"Environment and Poverty: One World or Two?"
Valedictory address by Prof. Amartya Sen (wmv 27 mn 12 sec), Nobel Laureate, and Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University

Interactive session