The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aligned with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to promote green technologies, advance cutting-edge policies and build capacity to meet humankind's environmental challenges.
UNEP’s collaboration with TERI aims to foster the common objective of science-based solutions to environmental challenges and will undertake the following initiatives under the MOU to meet this vision.
- Scan for and provide the latest and most up-to-date and relevant findings and research related to environmental innovation.
- Support frontier assessments of innovations, including cutting-edge technologies and nature-based solutions.
- Develop data infrastructure and standards for management, collection, dissemination, and analytics of environmental information to provide insights into decision-making processes.
- Conduct joint assessments, undertake scanning processes for the most suitable and environmentally friendly technologies and determine the necessary enabling conditions (including governance) for scalability at the local, national, and global levels.
TERI is a policy research institute that aims to create innovative solutions in energy, the environment and sustainable development. UNEP has a mandate to provide timely, scientifically credible and policy-relevant environmental assessments for decision-making to advance the 2030 Agenda.
