Plenaries
Day 1: 22 February, 2023 | Wednesday
Opening Session: Leadership for People and Nature Centered Approaches
- Time : 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM (IST)
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Addressing the climate crisis at the 27th Conference of Parties held at Sharm-el Sheikh in November 2022, H.E Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General stressed, “It is a defining issue of our age. It is the central challenge of our century...
Financing Sustainable Development and Climate Actions for Realizing the 2030 Agenda
- Time : 10:45 – 11:45 AM (IST)
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The COVID-19 pandemic plunged 77 million more people into extreme poverty in 2021, and 1 in 5 developing countries’ GDP per capita would not return to 2019 levels by the end of 2023 (UN 2022). The war in Ukraine will further exacerbate challenges with higher energy...
Fireside Chat: Driving Ambition and Action for a Sustainable Future
- Time : 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM (IST)
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With the passage of the Paris Agreement in 2015, the international community vowed to create societies that will be resilient to climate change and will be supported by the required financial flows to keep the global temperature increase...
G20 Leadership for a Green Development Pact
- Time : 1:30 – 2:30 PM (IST)
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The G20 accounts for the majority of the world economy along with significant outputs in terms of global exports, energy consumption, and GHG emissions. Therefore, the G20 must provide impetus for action plans for promoting green transitions. G20 countries are not only ...
Inaugural Session: Visionary Leadership for Mainstreaming Sustainable Development and Climate Resilience (Venue: TBC)
- Time : 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (IST)
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The World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) is the annual flagship multi-stakeholder convening by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Instituted in 2001 as Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, the Summit series has marked more than 20 years...
Lifestyles for Environment: Institutions, Policies and Social Movements
- Time : 4:15 – 5:15 PM (IST)
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Ever since the adoption of Agenda 21, there has been a focus on unsustainable patterns of production and consumption at the global level. In 2015, out of the seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs), responsible consumption and production became the twelfth...
Towards Energy Security and Inclusive Energy Transitions
- Time : 5:30 – 6:30 PM (IST)
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Attaining energy security has been one of the central pillars for countries around the world as energy is essential for human development and economic growth. Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all, is Goal 7 of the Sustainable ...
Fireside Chat: Ocean Innovation Showcase
- Time : 7:00 – 7:30 PM (IST)
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Humanity’s well-being is intertwined with the health of the ocean. The ocean covers more than 70% of the surface of the planet and form 95% of the biosphere (WOA 2021). According to the World Ocean Assessment, the ocean is Earth’s largest ecosystem, regulating...
CEO Forum: Accelerating Business Actions for Realizing Sustainable
- Time : 7:45 –8:30 PM (IST)
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The world is facing unprecedented challenges in the form of socio-economic inequities, unemployment, climate change, environmental degradation, as well as health crisis. Business sector can play an important role in providing the much-needed support in terms of...
Day 2: 23 February, 2023 | Thrusdau
Instruments for Inclusive Green Growth and Sub-national Leadership
- Time : 10:00 – 11:00 AM (IST)
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Green growth involves rethinking growth strategies regarding their impact(s) on environmental sustainability and the environmental resources available to poor and vulnerable groups (Finance Commission 2009). Green growth strategies should ensure that...
15th Convocation Ceremony of TERI School of Advanced Studies
- Time : 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM (IST)
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The genesis of TERI SAS is rooted in the comprehensive research, consultancy, and outreach activities of TERI. The relationship with TERI has propelled and influenced the evolution of the University's academic units. This relationship is enshrined in a...
Nature-based Solutions for Addressing Climate Vulnerability and Ensuring Food Security
- Time : 6:00 – 7:30 PM (IST)
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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the war in Ukraine has led to risks for the global agricultural markets especially for least developed and low-income food-deficit country groups that rely on Ukrainian food supplies to meet their consumption needs...
TAA-TERI In Memoriam Session
- Time : 7:30 – 8:00 PM (IST)
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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the war in Ukraine has led to risks for the global agricultural markets especially for least developed and low-income food-deficit country groups that rely on Ukrainian food supplies to meet their consumption needs...
Day 3: 24 February, 2023 | Friday
Media Colloquium: Shaping Public and Political Attitudes, Driving Sustainable Development
- Time : 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (IST)
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In the age of social media, people get information from various sources, much of which is misinformation. The responsibility of media hence becomes more crucial, and the media fraternity needs to get out of the echo chamber and reach out to a wider audience to get the...
Women Leadership Session: Promoting Diversity and Inclusion for a Greener Future
- Time : 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM (IST)
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We are heading into a ‘new’ world whose common future would be an assortment of climate change induced conflicts, waves of pandemics, extreme weather events, plummeting socio-economic disparities and unending humanitarian crises. In view of this, listening to, acting...
Youth Plenary: Collective Action and Intergenerational Equity for Our Common Future
- Time : 12:30 – 1:30 PM (IST)
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After all, tomorrow is another day': This concluding line of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the American author Margaret Mitchell who wrote the novel, ‘Gone with the Wind’, provides impetus to rise above apprehension and doubt and develop plans to adapt and adopt...
High-level Session on COP28 Compass: Towards Equity and Climate Justice
- Time : 2:30 – 4:00 PM (IST)
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The 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will convene from 30 November to 12 December 2023 at the Expo City Dubai, United Arab Emirates. COP28 will be hosted at a time of...
Valedictory Session: Mainstreaming Sustainable Development for Collective Action Release of Act4Earth Manifesto
- Time : 5:00 – 6:30 PM (IST)
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It has been more than 50 years since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, popularly known as the 1972 Stockholm Conference. Fifty years on, it is increasingly being recognized that our political, environmental, and commercial activities are...