Policy Brief

‘Air to Water’ technology - offering potential to achieve Water for All

28 Mar 2023
| Snehlata Tigala, Shresth Tayal, S K Sarkar

An Assessment of Avoided CO2 Emissions during Construction, Maintenance and Operation of National Highways

22 Feb 2023

India has the 2nd largest road network in the world. Amongst the different types of roads, the National Highways extending to 1,44,634 km has contributed significantly to India’s rapid economic development. The rapid pace of construction of highways is enabling integration of the local economies of far flung towns and villages into the national economy.

Political Economy of Net Zero: India

30 Jan 2023
| Mr Kartikey Sharma
| Mr Saswata Chaudhury
| Mr R R Rashmi

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.