Aims to promote energy-efficient buildings and illuminating of rural households
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has sought to join hands with the Karnataka government to promote energy-efficient buildings, for tapping renewable resources and for illuminating rural households in the state through it’s ‘Lighting a Billion Lives’ programme which aims to use solar lighting devices.
TERI aims to effectively engage the state governments, institutions, multi-bilateral organisations, corporate bodies and civil society: in a bid to tap the prevailing local initiatives at the state and the sub-region level and discuss specific sustainable development issues, best practices and the way forward.
The institute has been seeking to initiate a multi stake-holder discussion around specific sustainable development issues, the prevalent best practices, and the way forward towards outlining a sustainable development roadmap for the state. “Local governments and its institutions assume a larger role in nurturing local resources, developing local initiatives and mobilising the civil society towards a desirable change. There is a need to tap these initiatives and emulate them globally,” said R K Pachauri, Director-General TERI.
As part of this effort, TERI had organised the Karnataka Sustainable Development Summit - (KSDS) Sustainable Infrastructure Development in Karnataka: Key Achievements and Way Forward to dwelve on four areas: (1) Green buildings; (2) Power scenario; (3) Urban transport initiatives and (4) Urban water and resource management issues, apart from discussing many examples of sustainable local and state level initiatives and social, environmental and institutional challenges in the state.
“The deliberations at the summit are expected to considerably raise awareness on these issues among a diverse range of stakeholders,” said an official from the state.
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Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa emphasised the need for an inclusive development at the summit, saying, “The deliberations of this summit will help the state in the long run. The government believes in strong infrastructure and development through which we aim to achieve high growth and equality.”
TERI hopes to highlight some key learnings from the summit at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit organised by it which is scheduled for February 3-5, 2011.