The Energy and Resources Institute

Climate EduXchange India is designed to ensure that teachers and students across the country, network and share relevant ideas, initiatives and information on climate change and related issues with the help of various ICT tools. Over the years the project has reached out to approximately 400 schools and has impacted over 150.000 students and 1000 teachers across the country.

The Specialized Library on Climate Change houses wide array of resources on climate change related issues, both in print and electronic form. The website provides information about all the resources and services offered by the library. The library catalogue of print and electronic resources and database of literature abstracts can be accessed on-line. Current awareness services like listing of new arrivals and compilation of latest news and events are also provided on-line.

The project on High Performance Commercial Buildings in India, which has been undertaken under the aegis of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, aims at establishing relevance and impacts of low-energy passive strategies and measures on improving energy performance of commercial buildings in five climatic zones of India.

The project aims to evaluate options by which the Indian economy can move towards an inclusive green growth paradigm of development. The evaluation aims to combine the rigorous scientific and economic studies done at the national and state levels (Punjab and Himachal Pradesh). The study has been able to generate, unique high resolution, actionable climate and spatial information for policy making in the two states.

SAMEEEKSHA is a collaborative platform aimed at pooling the knowledge and synergizing the efforts of various organizations and institutions – Indian and international, public and private – that are working towards the common goal of facilitating the development of the SME sector in India through the promotion and adoption of clean, energy efficient technologies and practices.

The capacity building hub collaborates with global stakeholders and institutions across the energy value chain, and leverages their mutual strengths to foster attainment of the ambitious goals. The hub undertakes a demand-driven approach to catalyze change. It is a special-purpose vehicle that facilitates - awareness generation/sensitization, knowledge assimilation and dissemination, design and delivery of programmes of change, and identification of research gaps.

GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) is a rating tool that helps people assesses the performance of their building against certain nationally acceptable benchmarks. It evaluates the environmental performance of a building holistically over its entire life cycle, thereby providing a definitive standard for what constitutes a ‘green building’. The rating system, based on accepted energy and environmental principles, seeks to strike a balance between the established practices and emerging concepts, both national and international.