Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change will organise ‘Him-CONNECT’ in New Delhi from tomorrow as part of the Energy and Resources Institute’s (TERI) World Sustainable Development summit. Him-CONNECT is a platform aimed at connecting researchers working in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) with start-ups, investors and policymakers to enable the scaling and on-ground application of their research outcomes. It will be open to visitors for two days from Thursday. More than 24 technologies, prototypes, patents, and pilot projects developed for the fragile ecosystem of the Indian Himalayan Region under the Ministry’s National Mission on Himalayan Studies will be showcased during Him-CONNECT. The event will be attended by over a hundred start-ups, incubators, investors and policymakers.