Policy Brief
Political Economy of Net Zero: India
30 Jan 2023
| Mr Kartikey Sharma
| Mr Saswata Chaudhury
| Mr R R Rashmi
India is largely dependent on fossil fuels to meet its energy requirements and imports are an important part of such supply. Sectors like power and transport have shown significant progress in terms of the transition, while others, such as industry, building, waste and forestry have just begun the process. The political motivation towards the net-zero commitment is clearly shown by recent policies and initiatives taken at the national level.
Inclusive Energy Transitions: Messages For The G20 Forum
03 Jan 2023
| Dr Shailly Kedia
| Dr G Mini
| Ms Rashmi Murali
| Ms P Anima
| Ms Nivedita Cholayil
| Dr Jayanta Mitra
| Mr Saswata Chaudhury
| Ishan Khetan
| Saheli Das
| Rumpa Banerjee
| Sanchit Saran Agarwal
| Arpita Elisheba Victor
Inclusive energy transitions are key to achieving sustainable development and climate goals. The concept of just transitions around coal in the context of energy supply and mitigation has gained discursive traction in recent times, and further moved forward towards the people-centered transition approaches
Oceans-Climate Interface: Implications For Global Commons Based Climate Action
03 Jan 2023
| Ms Ashwini Pai Panandiker
| Dr Fraddry D Souza
| Mr Aniruddh Soni
| Dr Shailly Kedia
| Ms Nivedita Cholayil
| Kaustav Sonowal
| Palak Khanna
| Shreyas Joshi
The High Seas or the Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ), are a global common, which covers about two-thirds of the ocean surface and more than 90% of its volume and contains rich biodiversity of marine life. Oceans are the largest known carbon sink in the world.
Internationalizing Lifestyles For Environment: Messages For G20
03 Jan 2023
| Dr Shailly Kedia
| Dr Manish Anand
| Ms Nivedita Cholayil
| Shweta Gautam
| Saheli Das
| Ishan Khetan
Sustainable consumption and lifestyles must be seen from the perspective of resource value chains that include resource extraction, manufacturing, processing, use by consumer, and disposal. Mainstream frameworks on sustainable consumption and production focus more on upstream and mid-stream components, such as resource efficiency and circular economy.
Road to Sharm El-Sheikh: Towards Equity and Climate Justice
07 Nov 2022
| Dr Shailly Kedia
| Ms Nivedita Cholayil
| Ms Anuradha Mathur
| Soham Banerjee
| Shubhi Goel
| Saheli Das
Egypt will host the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh from 6th -18th November 2022. The COP27 Presidency lays out the vision for inclusive, rules-based, ambitious, substantive outcomes, commensurate with the challenges based on science and guided by principles building on agreements, decisions, pledges, and commitments from Rio 1992 to Glasgow 2021.
Battery Electric Technology In The Heavy-Duty Vehicle Segment
08 Jul 2022
| Mr Sharif Qamar
| Faiz Jamal
70% of total tonne-km of India's freight transport takes place via roads (TERI, 2015) and is dominated by medium and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs) with a share of around 60% and the remaining by light-duty vehicles (LDVs). Reduced emission levels from 'hard to abate' sectors such as medium/heavy-duty long-distance transport, aviation, and shipping will continue to be critical in the future. Sustained efforts in this direction are crucial to achieving emission intensity reduction targets globally and in India, as outlined in the country's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
Joint Crediting Mechanism and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement: Strengthening Japan-India Technology Collaboration
01 Jul 2022
| Dorothy Ashmita Biswas, Soham Banerjee, Kentaro Tamura, Nanda Kumar Janardhanan, Temuulen Murun
Under the ambit of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, this issue brief explores the potential of a Japan –India partnership and examines the opportunities for shaping mutual ties through the Joint Crediting Mechanism.
Transitioning to a Low Carbon Technology for the Road Transport in India
14 Mar 2022
| Mr Abhishek Kaushik
| Mr Shanmuganathan K
| Ms Sachi Vohra
| Mr G Renjith
India is the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. At present, India accounts for a significant multimodal road transport sector contributing approximately 10 per cent of country’s total CO2 emissions, making it the second most carbon emitting sector in the country. Driven by rising population, income, and urbanization, under a business-as-usual scenario, India’s energy demand from transport is projected to increase six fold in 2050 from current levels. Therefore, decarbonizing the transport sector in India can help to substantially reduce these environmental impacts.
Moving towards Aggregation: Freight Forwarder Scheme of Railways
15 Feb 2022
| Ms Palak Passi
One of the key strategies in the Union Budget 2022 for increasing rail freight market share, aims at facilitating the integration of smaller goods through seamless solutions and multimodal logistics facilities at cargo terminals. Despite an increase in railways' market share to 45% by 2030, a key transport decarbonization strategy for India, it continues to exhibit a gradual decline due to a variety of reasons.
Developing Rail Freight Terminals: Energizing Private Partnerships
15 Feb 2022
| Ms Viral Joshi
Railways has often been termed as the "backbone of the economy", facilitating passenger and freight transportation to the length and breadth of the country. In recent years, railways has experienced a constant decline in the freight business, resulting in a growing concern for railway finances and National Decarbonisation Targets.