U.S. Environmental Technologies Market Intelligence Webinar Series: India

12/04/2024
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
(GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Join us for the next installment of the U.S. Environmental Technologies Market Intelligence Webinar Series to learn how U.S. Environmental Technology providers can take advantage of growing opportunities in India.


Why India

Identify Potential Market Opportunities

The Indian market presents a large and growing market opportunity for U.S. environmental technologies exports due to rapid population growth and urbanization, resulting in increasing need for technologies to address environmental and public health issues such as poor air quality, water and soil pollution, and climate change. India’s environmental technologies and clean energy markets generated a combined $27 billion in revenues in 2022. The United States exported $700 million in environmental technology goods to India in 2022, representing five percent of India’s environmental technology imports that year.

Water and wastewater treatment is the largest environmental technology sector for U.S. exports to India, followed by air pollution monitoring and control and waste management and recycling. While the United States and India have not entered into a bilateral free trade agreement, the trade relationship between the two countries is nonetheless robust. In 2022, the United States exported $47.2 billion in goods and $73 billion in services to India.

Hear from Industry Experts

This webinar will feature Indian government officials and industry representatives that will present on potential business collaboration opportunities for U.S. companies in the waste management, recycling, water and wastewater treatment, and air pollution monitoring and control technologies.

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Agenda

9:30 AM (EST)         Welcome Remarks by Mr. Jonathan M. Heimer,

Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs, U.S. Embassy,

New Delhi, India  

 

9:35 AM (EST)         Industry Brief on Air Pollution Control by Mr. Abhijit Pathak, Sr. Scientist Air Quality, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)

 

9:45 AM (EST)         Industry Brief on Decarbonization and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) by Mr. Shwetal Shah, Climate Change Advisor

 

9:55 AM (EST)         Industry Brief on Waste to Energy and Circular Economy by Dr. Amiya Kumar Sahu, National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) 

 

10:05 AM (EST)       Industry brief on the Water and Wastewater Sector by Mr. Kumar Saket, Technical Director, Government & Public Services of KPMG 

 

 10:15 AM (EST)      Q&A  

 

 10:30 AM (EST)      Closing Remarks by John McCadams, Commercial Officer, U.S. Commercial Service, Mumbai

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Speakers

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Dr. Amiya Kumar Sahu

National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA)

Dr. Amiya Kumar Sahu, is the founder of National Solid Waste Association of India (NSWAI) (website www.nswai.com & www.nswai.org) established in 1996 in Mumbai. He holds a PhD degree from USA in Environmental Sciences and M.E in Solid Waste Management from IHE (Delft), Netherlands. After commencing his career as a Sr. Scientific Officer in Air Pollution Prevention Cell, Mumbai Municipal Corporation between 1976-1983 as Incharge of Air Surveillance Project in the city of Mumbai, he joined Associated Industrial
Consultants, Mumbai as Project Engineer till 1985. Dr Sahu started his own enterprise as Chairman and Managing Director of Econ Pollution Control Private Ltd (website www.econ.in) in 1985. His consulting company rendered to various industries, institutions both Government and Multinationals in India and neighboring countries. He pioneered the project of Industrial- Toxic and Hazardous Waste in Thane Belapur
Industries (which comprise of more than 3500 Chemical Industries) and to establish a Common Disposal of Toxic and Hazardous Waste in the region by joining hands with the Danish company Chemcontrol A/S. This project was supported by World Bank, Govt of India, Govt of Maharastra and Industries Association in the belt.

Dr Sahu was working as Technical Team leader (World Bank) for the Sectoral Studies of Municipal Waste in Bangladesh. And was also consultant to Inter-agency (UNEP, IAEA, WHO) in air pollution projects. He was instrumental to draft MSW Rules, 2000 in India. Dr. Sahu’s wide-ranging expertise has resulted in his membership in various national and
International committees and Boards. He was Former Chairman Environmental Sub- Committee CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) western region, Former Chairman Environmental Committee Bombay Chamber of Commerce, Member of International Solid Waste Association of India, Vienna and many more. Dr Sahu has also been
associated with various research Institutes and Universities in India and abroad and has participated in various National and International Conferences on waste management. He even promotes introduction of the subject on solid waste in higher studies and research activities in India and believes in the principle of 3-E that is Ethics- Environment-Economics.
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Mr. Abhijit Pathak

Sr. Scientist Air Quality, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)

Mr. Pathak graduated from University of Calcutta in 1987. He has worked in various fields of environmental monitoring and management since 1988. Presently employed in Central Pollution Control Board, India, the apex regulatory authority in India as Senior Scientist. Mr. Pathak is a domain expert in Air quality management and research in India besides experienced to work in various spheres like mangrove & marine ecology, riverine ecology (lotic ecosystem) and lake ecology (lentic ecosystem) etc. He has a strong background in environmental monitoring and analytical instrumentation and exposure to international practices from Canada, Germany, Japan and Austria, holding a key role in Quality Management System ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and IS 45001:2018 (OH & SMS). Mr. Pathak is engaged in Human Resource development programme in SPCBs, and a faculty member for Green Skill Development Programme in air pollution field and also deliver invited lectures in various educational institutes of repute.
He is also a technical member in Source Apportionment Committee under NCAP, and worked as a project board member in bilateral projects between CPCB (India) – VTT (Finland), in the field of development of resources in the field of emission, fugitive and odour monitoring.
Over the course of his career, he has prepared 15 Research reports and documents, more than 20 research publication, and 7 papers presented in international conferences.
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Mr. John McCadams

Commercial Officer, U.S. Commercial Service, Mumbai

Mr. Jonathan M. Heimer Speaker image

Mr. Jonathan M. Heimer

Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs, U.S. Embassy, New Delhi, India

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Mr. Kumar Saket

Technical Director, Government & Public Services of KPMG

Kumar Saket is a Associate in the Government and Public Services Advisory at KPMG India. He is part of the KPMG Water Practice and is also the Project Director of USAID project “Support for Urban Water and Sanitation in India” advising the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and various State Governments on accelerating the Water supply and sanitation outcomes under large programs being implemented by Government of India. Saket has 18 years of experience working in the urban development, basic infrastructure services and city development strategies and has worked in Ethiopia, India, Nepal and Singapore cutting across various sectors. He is a graduate in Public Policy from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

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Mr. Shwetal Shah

Climate Change Advisor

Mr. Shwetal Shah is Climate Change Advisor, presently heading the Indo-German bilateral project RECAP4NDC in Gujarat. He has sixteen years of experience in sustainability and environment management, earlier he has served as Technical Advisor Climate Change, Government of Gujarat, India during 2014-2023. Climate Policy, Decarbonization, Paris Goal and NDCs, adaptation and mitigation strategies, climate finance are his areas of work and interest. He has been instrumental in Gujarat Climate Change Department’s initiatives of renewable energy policies, State Action Plan on Climate Change, Covenant of Mayors of Gujarat, Promotion of Electric Vehicles in Gujarat, National and International Collaborations, state-wide climate change awareness campaign.
He has obtained M. Tech. (Energy Management) and M. Sc. (Environment Management) from Forest Research Institute University (FRI), Dehradun. He has worked as the Chief Minister’s Fellow during the year 2010-11 with the then Chief Minister of Gujarat and now Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi and worked on crucial urban issues of Resource Conservation, Solid and Liquid Waste Management, Renewable Energy, Marine Debris and Green Buildings.
He is visiting faculty at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER). He has delivered more than 100 talks and presentations on various subjects of climate change, environment management, disaster management in UN, Universities, Conferences, Seminars both at National and International levels including the Climate Change CoPs. He has also written papers on EV Adoption, Sub-national Climate Action, carbon neutral town concept, vision for Sustainable Development Goal 2030, District Adaptation framework, Climate Change Action Plan etc. He has been trained as Climate Leader by former US Vice-President Mr. Al Gore in Los Angeles during 2018. He was invited to SABIT - Clean Energy for South Asia by US Dept of Commerce during Feb 2023. He has travelled in five continents to deliberate on Climate Change and Sustainability issues.