Stream I: Beyond the Built Environment: Achieving India’s Sustainable Future
Tuesday 16 April
10.30: Welcome Address
11.00-12.00: Keynote addess by Architect Karan Grover, Founder Karan Grover & Associates
12.30-13.30: Tackling Climate Change – What’s the best strategy for India?
- Priorities for addressing climate change in India
- Developing countries with growing green house gas emissions and polluting industries would be the Indigo economies and rated negatively
- Weather-induced grain production shortfalls have been seen even among the largest producers
- Strategies for India to manage its depleting resources and protect the vulnerable sections of society who would bear the brunt of climate change in terms of scarcer resources, lost livelihoods among other effects
Speakers
Dr. Jeroen van der Heijden, Assistant Professor, Australian National University Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Canberra, Australia University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law
Sandeep Garg, Programme Specialist (Energy & Environment) United Nations Development Programme
Dr. Dipankar Dey, Dean, IBS Business School, Kolkata
Dr. Shreedhar Ramamurthy, Managing Trustee Environics Trust; Chairperson of Minerals, Mines and People
14.00-15.00: What are the key challenges before the government in balancing environment and development?
- Sustainable development concerns need to encompass other ministries, moving from the Ministry of Environment to Ministries of Agriculture, Energy, Finance, Planning, Health and Education
- Lack of visionary planning and regulatory principles wherein polluters pay are the bane of our system
- The limitation of GDP as a measure of growth and the need for alternative linkages as recommended by UNEP
- How do we make companies report in terms of the triple bottom-line or the three pillars of people , planet and profit . Bringing in environment and social issues into core business operations
Speakers
Dr Shreedhar Ramamurthy, Managing Trustee Environics Trust; Chairperson of Minerals, Mines and People
Dr Indrajit Dube, Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT, Kharagpur
Chandrashekar Hariharan,
CEO, Biodiversity Conservation India (Private) Limited
Dr. Jeroen van der Heijden,
Assistant Professor, Australian National University Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Canberra, Australia University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law
Dr Mahavir, Professor of Planning
and Head, Department of Environmental Planning
School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi
15.15-16.15: What is the future of water?
- Resolving the water conundrum- Issues and solutions, Managing and governing water resources effectively to enhance India’s economic growth. Learning’s from Singapore, Kuala lumpur
Making water everybody’s business. There is no village in India which can not meet its drinking water needs through its own rainwater endowment. Educating the community on water conservation
Learning from traditions of rainwater harvesting, capturing, storing, recharging and using rainwater over dry periods
Speakers
Niranjan Khatri, GM, ITC Hotels
N K Ranganath, MD, Grundfos India
Roshni Udyavar,
Head of Department, Institute of Environmental Architecture, Rachna Sansad’s Academy of Architecture
A.R. Shivakumar,
Principal Investigator - RWH, Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science
Dr Vinod Tare, Professor Environmental Engineering and Management Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
16.30-17.30: Collaboration in the Area of Energy Poverty
- Do we have a cohesive and coherent policy to address energy deficits?
- Readying society and the economy for a resource efficient future beyond fossil fuels
- Making renewable energy happen in India, getting the scales right creating a climate for private sector investment
- Is the solution micro, district or grid level generation and is there a plan which coordinates all three elements
Speakers
Krishna Sankar, MD, Eastern Power & Systems Pvt Ltd, Wind & Solar Farm developer and Financial arranger for RE & PPP power projects
T.V Golatkar, Head Renewable Energy, ABS Consulting, an ABS Group Company
Sandeep Garg, Programme Specialist (Energy & Environment) United Nations Development Programme
Prasad Modak, Executive President, Environmental Management Centre
Vinayak Walimbe, Director, Financial Services, Customised Energy Solutions