Agenda

Speaker:  Ms Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Chair: Mr Suman Bery, Senior Fellow, Mastercard Centre for Inclusive Growth & Former Chief Economist, Shell International Limited

Chair: Dr Prodipto Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Keynote Addresses:

• HE Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka (1994-2005) & Member, World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid
• HE Cassam Uteem, President of Mauritius (1992-2002) & Member, World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid

• Video Message: Mr Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder, Bloomberg LP & Bloomberg Philanthropies; 108th Mayor of New York City
• Keynote address: Mr C K Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change
• Dr Ajay Mathur, Director General, TERI & Member of the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, India
• Ms Ailun Yang, Directorof Global Air Pollution, Environment Program, Bloomberg Philanthropies
• Mr Ritesh Kumar Singh, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, India

MoU Signing – Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, India and Bloomberg Philanthropies

India and Norway: Working Together for Clean and Healthy Oceans

Chair:  Dr M Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, India

• Mr Vidar Helgesen, Norway’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
• Ms Annie Notthoff, Senior Western Advocacy Director, NRDC - San Francisco & Sacramento
• Dr Suneel Pandey, Director, Environment & Waste Management, TERI

Chair: Dr P K Basu, Former Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, India

• Dr Alok Adholeya, Senior Fellow & Senior Director, Sustainable Agriculture Division, TERI
• Dr Hemant Kumar Badola, Advisor (Biodiversity, Climate Change, GTT facilitator), Chief Minister's Office, Government of Sikkim, India
• Mr Edward Millard, Director – Landscapes & Communities, Rainforest Alliance
• Mr Ashwani K Muthoo, Director, Global Engagement and Multilateral Relations Division, International Fund for Agriculture Development
• Mr Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President, Institute for Global Environmental Studies (IGES), Japan

Welcome Note & Setting the Context: Mr Shriprakash, Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Chair: Prof Geetam Tiwari, MoUD Chair Professor, Transport Planning, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi

• Mr Anthony Eggert, Director, ClimateWorks Foundation
• Mr Roland Hwang, Managing Director, Climate & Clean Energy Program, NRDC
• HE André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, Ambassador of Brazil to India
• Mr Tim Ash Vie, Director, Under2 Coalition Secretariat, The Climate Group

Chair: Dr V Sumantran, Chairman, Celeris Technologies

• Mr Rohit Gothi, CEO, Hero Cycles
• Ms Nandini Maheshwari, Head, Business Development, Uber India
• Mr Sudipta Mukherjee, Vice President and Plant Head, Haldia Energy Limited
• Mr Sunil Mathur, Additional Member (Tourism & Catering) Ministry of Railways, Railway Board, India
• Mr Manu Saxena, Vice-President Business Planning, TVS Motor Company

Chair: Ambassador Ajai Malhotra, Senior Advisor – Climate Change & Distinguished Fellow, TERI

• Mr Suresh Prabhu, Hon’ble Minister, Ministry of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, India
• Mr Rajiv Kumar, Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog, India
• Dr Barshaman Pun, Hon’ble Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Nepal
• Ms Marianne Hagen, State Secretary (Deputy Minister), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
• Mr Tomasz Chruszczow, High Level Climate Champion for Climate Action, Poland

Mr HS Puri, Hon’ble Minister of State (IC), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, India

Chair: Ambassador Manjeev Puri, Member of Advisory Board – TERI & Ambassador of India to Nepal

• Dr Ajay Mathur, Director General, TERI
• Mr Raimund Magis, Charge de Affairs, Delegation of the European Union to India
• Mr Wolfram Klein, Head of South Asia Division, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
• Mr Akhil Kumar, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, India
• Mr Rajiv Mishra, Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)
• Mr Arjun Ram Meghwal, Hon’ble Union Minister of State, Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, India

Chair: Mr Ajay Shankar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Video Message: Ms Rachel Kyte, CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll) & Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for SEforAll

• Mr Anand Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, India
• Mr Vineet Mittal, Chairman, Avaada Group
• Mr David Nelson, Executive Director - Energy Finance, Climate Policy Initiative
• Mr Jayant Parimal, CEO, Adani Green Energy Ltd.
• Lord Adair Turner, Chair, Energy Transitions Commission, London, UK

Launch of the Reports of the Energy Transitions Commission Project & Book - Green, Reliable and Viable: Perspectives on India’s Shift Towards Low-carbon Energy

Launch of the Report: Rural Electrification in India: Customer Behaviour and Demand

• Opening Remarks: Mr Jaideep Mukherji, CEO, Smart Power India
• Introduction to the Report: Mr Sidhartha Vermani, Senior Director, Smart Power India

Panel Discussion:

Moderator: Mr Sreenivasan Jain, Managing Editor, NDTV

• Dr Ajay Mathur, Director General, TERI
• Ms Mohua Mukherjee, Program Ambassador, International Solar Alliance (ISA)
• Mr Jaideep Mukherji, CEO, Smart Power India
• Mr RP Gupta,  Additional Secretary (Energy), Niti Aayog
• Mr K K Mishra, Director (RE) Ministry of Power, India

Keynote Address: Prof Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Co-Director of the India Observatory & Chair - Grantham Research Institute, LSE

Chair: Ms Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairman, Advent International Private Equity, India Advisory Board

India Launch: NCE Report - Unlocking the Inclusive Growth Story of the 21st Century

Chair: Mr Dipak Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Confirmed:

• Ms Preety M Bhandari, Director, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC), ADB
• Mr Yvo De Boer, President, Gold Standard Foundation
• Mr H R Dave, Deputy Managing Director, NABARD
• Mr John Roome, Senior Director, Climate Change, World Bank
• Ms Laurence Tubiana, CEO, European Climate Foundation

MoU Signing between UN Global Compact Network India & TERI

Keynote Address:  Prof Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, SDSN & Director, Centre for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, USA

Chair: Dr Leena Srivastava, Vice- Chancellor, TERI School of Advanced Studies

• Launch of Report : ‘Rural Electrification: Impact on Distribution Companies in India’
   
• Closing Remarks:
• Mr Nitin Desai, Chairman, TERI
• Dr Ajay Mathur, Director General, TERI