Day 1 - Feb 15, 2018
| Registration | |
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Registration
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| Inauguration | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Greenovation Exhibition
H.E. Mr Nils Ragnar Kamsvag, Ambassador of Norway to India, Royal Norwegian Embassy Hon.Patricia Appiagyei, Deputy Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Government of Ghana |
| Opening Session at Stein Auditorium | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Welcome Remarks: Dr Ajay Mathur, Director-General, TERI
-Special Remarks: Hon. Patricia Appiagyei, Deputy Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Government of Ghana - Special Address: H.E. Mr Nils Ragnar Kamsvag, Ambassador of Norway to India, Royal Norwegian Embassy - Keynote Address: The Global Politics of Sustainable Development Prof Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University |
| Thematic Tracks (Group A) | |
| 10:50 - 12:30 | Cities and Heat Stress - A Call for Action
at Amaltas |
| 10:50 - 12:30 | Civil Society Engagement in Land Degradation Neutrality
at Silver Oak |
| 10:50 - 12:30 | Making Livable Cities: Challenges and Way Forward for India
at Marigold |
| 10:50 - 12:30 | Carbon Markets and Pricing: Demystifying Policy Landscape and the Role of Private Sector
at Juniper |
| 10:50 - 12:30 | The GRIHA Trophy at NASA
at Tamarind |
| 10:50 - 12:30 | Towards Resource-Efficient Management of Plastic Waste
at Jacaranda |
| Lunch | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch
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| Thematic Tracks ( Group B) | |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | The Business of Land
at Jacaranda |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Future of Oil and Gas Sector of India in a Climate Constrained World
at Tamarind |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Electric Vehicles in India: The Resource-Efficient Way
at Juniper |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Climate Services: Navigating into an Uncertain Future
at Gulmohar |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Protecting Oceans from Chemical and Plastic Pollution
at Amaltas |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Greening the Supply Chain of Solar PV
at Marigold |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Cleaning the Air in Indian Cities
at Silver Oak |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Promoting Environmentally Sound Technologies and Best Practices
at Conference room, TERI |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | The Third Pole - A Melting Pot of Climate Change Threats & Actions
at Magnolia Perspectives from the Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience Research |
| Tea | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tea
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| Thematic Tracks (Group C) | |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Smart Micro-Grids: A New Mantra for Distributed Generation?
at Jacaranda |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Corporate Green Leadership: Experiences and Scaling-Up
at Tamarind |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Affordable and Efficient Cooling: Maximising Climate Benefits with Refrigerant Change
at Juniper |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Strengthening an Evidence-based Policy Framework for Sustainable Transport
at Gulmohar |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Governance Challenges and Policy Solutions for Combating Land Degradation
at Silver Oak |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Transitioning to a low carbon economy: ETC India launch
at Marigold |
| Cultural Evening | |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Cultural Evening
at Stein Auditorium |
| Dinner | |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner
at The Hub |
Day 2 - Feb 16, 2018
| Inaugural | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Inaugural Ceremony- Hon'ble Prime Minister of India
at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi |
| Lunch | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch
at The Hub (India Habitat Centre) |
| Keynote Address at Stein Auditorium | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Theme: India and the Urban Agenda for 2030
Mr HS Puri, Hon'ble Minister of State (IC) of Housing and Urban Affairs, India Moderator: Dr Ajay Mathur, Director-General, TERI |
| Special Session | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Enhancing Resilience and Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality in Multifunctional Landscapes
at Stein Auditorium Chair: Mr Nitin Desai, Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations and Distinguished Fellow, TERI Keynote Address: Ms Monique Barbut, Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Panelists: - Hon. Patricia Appiagyei, Deputy Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ghana - HE Mr Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Attorney-General and Minister for Economy, Public Enterprises, Civil Service and Communications, Government of Republic of Fiji - Mr Chencho Norbu, Secretary, National Environment Commission, Bhutan - Dr Sanjaasuren Oyun, Chair, Global Water Partnership (GWP) |
| Corporate Conclave at Stein Auditorium | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Solar Revolution: The New Global Norm
Inaugural Welcome Address: Dr Ajay Mathur, Director- General, TERI Special Remarks: - Mr Rana Kapoor, MD & CEO, YES BANK and Chairman, YES Global Institute Key note presentation on 'International Solar Alliance: Market Development Strategy': - Mr Upendra Tripathy, Interim Director General, International Solar Alliance (ISA) Special Address: - Mr Anand Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India Release of Electric Mobility Paradigm Shift: Capturing the opportunities' Report |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Panel Discussion: Accessing Finance for International Solar Alliance Programmes with Focus on South East Asia, Africa, Island countries and India
at Stein Auditorium Chair: Dr Prodipto Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, TERI Panelists: - Mr Jiwan Acharya, Energy Specialist, Asian Development Bank - Mr Drew Johnson, Chairman, CENERGIST Limited and BIG Solar Limited, UK - Mr Manoj Kohli, Executive Chairman, SB Energy - Mr Randal Newton, Vice President- Enterprise Engineering, Ingersoll Rand - Mr Praveer Sinha, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Way Forward
at Stein Auditorium Opening Remarks - Dr Ajay Mathur, Director- General, TERI Keynote Address - Mr Jayant Sinha, Hon'ble Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Government of India |
| Tea | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Tea
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| Landfill Free Cities | |
| 16:15 - 17:15 | A Circular Economy Approach
at Stein Auditorium Moderator: Dr Suneel Pandey, Senior Fellow & Director, Environment & Waste Management, TERI Confirmed: - Mr Mahesh Babu, Managing Director, IL&FS Environmental Infrastructure & Services Limited - Dr Christian John Engelsen, Senior Research Scientist, Inst. of Building and Infrastructure, SINTEF - Mr Ashish Mathur, Managing Director, JUSCO - Mr Nitin Prasad, Chairman - Shell Companies of India, Shell - Mr Venkatesh Valluri, Chairman & Managing Director, Valluri Technology Accelerators and Valluri Change Foundation |
| Innovative Financial Mechanisms: Raising the Trillions for Low Carbon Investments & Climate Resilience at Stein Auditorium | |
| 17:15 - 18:15 | Chair: Mr Dipak Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, TERI & Former Principal Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
Panelists: - Mr Krishan Dhawan, CEO, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation - Dr Gireesh Shrimali, Director, Climate Policy Initiative, India - Mr Douglass Sims, Director Of Strategy And Finance, Center For Market Innovation, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) - Dr Leena Srivastava, Vice-Chancellor, TERI School of Advanced Studies - Ms Laurence Tubiana, CEO, European Climate Foundation - Ms Namita Vikas, Group President & Global Head - Climate Strategy and Responsible Banking, Yes Bank Ltd |
| Partnering to Create a Green, Clean and Prosperous World at Stein Auditorium | |
| 18:15 - 19:15 | Chair: Ambassador Ajai Malhotra, Distinguished Fellow, TERI
Panelists: - Mr Pawan Chamling, Hon'ble Chief Minister, Sikkim - HE Mr Laurent Fabius, Former President of COP21, UN Environment Patron on Environmental Governance, Constitutional Council of France - Mr Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Attorney-General and Minister for Economy, Public Enterprises, Civil Service and Communications, Government of Republic of Fiji - Ms Christine St-Pierre, Minister of International Relations and La Francophonie, Government of Quebec - Mr Lyonpo Lekey Dorji, Hon'ble Minister of Economic Affairs, Royal Government of Bhutan |
| Dinner | |
| 19:15 - 21:00 | Dinner
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Day 3 - Feb 17, 2018
| Special Session | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Breathing Clean Air: Institutional Frameworks
at Stein Auditorium Chair: Mr Suman Bery, Non-Resident Fellow, Bruegel Panelists: - Ms Frances Beinecke, Trustee NRDC Action Fund; NRDC Immediate past President, McCluskey Fellow at Yale School of Forestry - Ms Karin Kemper, Senior Director, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, World Bank Group - Mr C K Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India - Mr Yasuo Takahashi, Vice Minister, Global Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Government of Japan - Dr. Rodolfo Lacy Tamayo, Under Secretary of Planning and Environmental Policy, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico (via video) |
| Farming and Eating the Smart Way at Stein Auditorium | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Chair: Dr Vibha Dhawan, Distinguished Fellow & Senior Director, TERI
Panelists: - Dr Arvind Kapur, Managing Director, Acsen HyVeg (P) Ltd. - Dr Purvi Mehta, Head of Asia, Agriculture, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Mr Nitin Puri, Senior President and Country Head- FASAR, Yes Bank - Dr SR Rao, Adviser, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Minister of Science & Technology,Government of India Launch of 'FEWLing the Growth: Food, Energy and Water Nexus for Livelihood Security in India' Report |
| Effective South-South Cooperation under FIPIC at Stein Auditorium | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Chair: Dr Ajay Mathur, Director General, TERI
Panelists: - Mr Yvo de Boer, Founder, Responsibility and Former Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - Mr Francois Martel, Secretary General, Pacific Island Development Forum (PIDF) - Prof Ambuj Sagar, Head of the School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi - Colonel Sanjiv Sethi, Director, (South- 1), The Ministry of External Affairs - Mr Joshua Wycliffe, Permanent Secretary for Local Government, Housing and Environment, Government of Republic of Fiji Signing of the Declaration of Partnership between Government of Republic of Fiji & TERI |
| Lunch | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch
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| Energy Efficiency: Focus on Up-scaling at Stein Auditorium | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Chair: Mr Ajay Shankar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI and Former Secretary, Department of Industrial Trade and Promotion (DIPP), Government of India
Panelists: - Dr Rene Van Berkel, India Representative, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) - Mr M Hari Prasad Hedge, Senior Vice President And Global Head- Operations, Wipro Limited - Mr Ajay Jain, Principal Secretary, Andhra Pradesh, Government of India - Ms Rachel Kyte, CEO - Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) & Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All (via video) - Mr Prakash Kumar Singh, Chairman, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) - Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President, Institute of Global Environment Strategies (IGES) |
| Policy & Business in Action towards Closing the Loop at Stein Auditorium | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Chair: Dr Prodipto Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, TERI & Former Secretary, Government of India
Keynote Address: Mr Suresh Prabhu, Hon'ble Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of India Panelists: - Mr Chanakya Chaudhary, Group Director, Corporate Communications & Regulatory Affairs, TATA STEEL - Mr Anil Kumar Jain, Addl. Secretary, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Government of India - Ms Astrid Schomaker, Director, Global Sustainable Development, Environment Directorate-General, European Commission, Brussels - Ms Namita Vikas, Group President & Global Head - Climate Strategy and Responsible Banking, Yes Bank Ltd - Mr Ratan P Watal, Principal Adviser Social Sector, Niti Aayog Launch of 'Circular Economy: A Business Imperative for India' Report |
| Water Cooperation for a Resilient Planet at Stein Auditorium | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Chair: Dr David James Molden, Director General, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Panelists: - Dr M. Ariz Ahammed, Mission Director, National Water Mission & Member (Finance-CGWB), Government of India - Dr OP Agarwal, CEO, World Resources Institute (WRI) India - Dr Syamal Kumar Sarkar, Distinguished Fellow & Senior Director Water Resources Policy & Management, TERI - Dr Ravi Srivastava, First Secretary for Environment, Science and Technology, U.S. Embassy |
| Valedictory Session | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Valedictory Session
at Stein Auditorium Special Remarks - Mr. Yuri Afanasiev, UN Representative in India & UNDP Resident Representative Closing Remarks: Dr Ajay Mathur, Director – General, TERI |
| High Tea | |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | High Tea
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