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Building Future-Ready MSMEs and Workers
Building Future-Ready MSMEs and Workers
As industries evolve, businesses are adapting to new technologies, changing markets, climate risks, and emerging opportunities. Through the voices of MSME owners and workers, this film tells the st...
Financing the Shift | Unlocking India's Electric Freight Future
Financing the Shift | Unlocking India's Electric Freight Future
Financing the Shift is a short series featuring leaders from across the electric freight ecosystem—including fleet operators, financiers, OEMs, policymakers, technology providers, and industry expe...
Market Validation for Early-Stage Restoration-Linked Startups
Market Validation for Early-Stage Restoration-Linked Startups
Catalysing #restorationforharitbharat with local restoration champions, the land accelerator India program hosted the sixth core capacity building session for its 2026 cohort. Vikas Mishra (India b...
Customer Profiling for Improved Positioning in Early Markets
Customer Profiling for Improved Positioning in Early Markets
Catalyzing #RestorationforHaritBharat with local restoration champions, the Land Accelerator India program hosted the fifth core capacity building session for its 2026 cohort. Focusing on customer ...
Tackling Food Loss: A Farmer-First Solution
Tackling Food Loss: A Farmer-First Solution
Watch WRI India’s film, Tackling Food Loss: A Farmer-First Solution, highlighting solutions for better harvesting, handling, storage, processing, and marketing of perishable crops such as oranges, ...
ACE 2026: Fireside Chat and Award Ceremony
ACE 2026: Fireside Chat and Award Ceremony
The closing session features a fireside chat that synthesizes key insights from ACE 2026, examining the conditions required to scale India's energy transition reliably, the constraints that remai
Meeting India’s Rising Electricity Demand While Ensuring Clean, Affordable, & Reliable Power for All
Meeting India’s Rising Electricity Demand While Ensuring Clean, Affordable, & Reliable Power for All
The plenary session aims to bring together policymakers, regulators, utilities, system planners, industry leaders, researchers, and civil society stakeholders to examine how India can sustainably m...
ACE 2026: Inaugural session, Plenary I and Fireside Chat
ACE 2026: Inaugural session, Plenary I and Fireside Chat
WRI India, in collaboration with IIT Bombay, is hosting ACE 2026, a convening focused on advancing analytical and systems-based understanding of India’s energy transition. The discussions bring tog...
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10d ago
Invisible Heat: Visualising Heat in Surat's Textile MSMEs
Invisible Heat: Visualising Heat in Surat's Textile MSMEs
"One day it got so hot during work that one of our colleagues felt dizzy and fainted." This testimony from a textile worker in Surat highlights a challenge that often goes unnoticed: indoor heat s...
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12d ago
Freight Without Fuel Shocks | Webinar
Freight Without Fuel Shocks | Webinar
India’s freight sector remains heavily dependent on diesel, exposing businesses to fuel price volatility and rising operating costs. As electric truck deployments grow and vehicle economics improve...
WRI India
13d ago
How Are Immersive Experiences Shaping Urban Mobility?
How Are Immersive Experiences Shaping Urban Mobility?
Urban mobility discourse often remains confined to reports, policy documents and closed-door discussions. While these are essential, they frequently operate within the ecosystem and rarely reach th...
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24d ago
Global Webinar on Forging the Future of Low-Emissions Steel
Global Webinar on Forging the Future of Low-Emissions Steel
WRI India and America hosted a global webinar on the eve of World Environment Day (June 4, 20206) to examine the evolving landscape of steel sector decarbonization. The discussion drew on insights ...
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24d ago
Navigating Heat Risk for Workers and Industries: Challenges & Solutions | Social Compact x WRI India
Navigating Heat Risk for Workers and Industries: Challenges & Solutions | Social Compact x WRI India
A world where extreme heat is no longer a one off concern but a daily battle for millions of workers, the World Resources Institute (WRI), in collaboration with Social Compact, hosted a powerful an...
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28d ago
Using Behavioural Nudges to Improve Public Transport Adoption
Using Behavioural Nudges to Improve Public Transport Adoption
In this session, we explored how behavioural insights, data and technology could make public transport a more convenient, reliable and preferred choice for daily commuting. The discussion drew on l...
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33d ago
Taking Clean Air Conversations on Ground | Gurugram Chapter
Taking Clean Air Conversations on Ground | Gurugram Chapter
Open waste burning and construction and demolition (C&D) waste continue to be among the largest contributors to air pollution. While policy frameworks are in place, strengthening on-ground impleme
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36d ago
Unlocking Capital in Practice for Restoration-linked Startups
Unlocking Capital in Practice for Restoration-linked Startups
Advancing #RestorationForHaritBharat, the Land Accelerator India program hosted the third core capacity building session for its 2026 cohort. Focused on financial readiness and capital planning, th...
WRI India
38d ago
Marol Urban Forest Marks a Milestone in Mumbai’s Journey Towards a Greener Future
Marol Urban Forest Marks a Milestone in Mumbai’s Journey Towards a Greener Future
The Marol Urban Forest is a water-sensitive urban forest initiative in Mumbai that is transforming a heat-stressed industrial area into a greener, biodiverse, and publicly accessible open space alo...
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39d ago
Power at Peak: #1 Why Energy Efficient Appliances and Demand Side Management Matters Now?
Power at Peak: #1 Why Energy Efficient Appliances and Demand Side Management Matters Now?
As part of the ETPI initiative, WRI India is organising a three part webinar series titled 'Power at Peak'. The first webinar in the series  '#1 Why Energy Efficient Appliances and Demand Side Ma
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41d ago
Sarbeswar Basumatary’s Story of Transformation Through Farming | Changemakers of Bodoland
Sarbeswar Basumatary’s Story of Transformation Through Farming | Changemakers of Bodoland
“We would go into the forest and dig wild potatoes. Whatever remained would be exchanged for rice.” For many families in Bodoland, farming was once about survival. But over time, farmers like Sar...
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52d ago
Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for transitioning to Sustainable Agriculture.
Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for transitioning to Sustainable Agriculture.
This session aims to share the opportunities and challenges experienced by women farmers while securing resource rights, accessing finance and adopting technology. Discussants also explore the enab...