Policy Brief
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.
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.
Super Efficient AC Deployment: Opportunities through business models in India
13 Feb 2021
| Mr Manjeet Singh
| Ms Madhur Bhargava
The policy brief aims to analyse the bulk procurement program for Super-Efficient Air Conditioners which includes key business strategies and technical criteria. The paper further analyses the existing framework of the model and elucidates key takeaways for impact enhancement. It explores various international models available in the cooling sector to recognize their applicability in the Indian context to promote low GWP refrigerant based energy-efficient air conditioners.
Mobile Air Conditioning (MAC): A technology landscape, challenges and opportunities for sustainable cooling
22 Dec 2020
| Mr Shanmuganathan K
| Mr Manjeet Singh
Cooling with its wide range of applications viz residence, commercial, transport and cold chain leaves a significant carbon footprint due to its colossal energy consumption and refrigerant practices.
Discounting the Climate Future: Social Discount Rate for India's Climate Policy
27 Nov 2020
| Ms Saumya Malhotra
Climate change, from an economic perspective, can be understood as a market failure. The associated risks with this changing climate, as well as impacts on socio-economic systems in form of health, livelihood, food and water security, are projected to be higher with increasing global warming.
Understanding Perspectives: A Behavioural Study in the Indian Cooling Sector
02 Nov 2020
| Mr Manjeet Singh
The impact of climate change is manifesting itself in increasingly erratic weather patterns, and even these increasing in frequency and severity. Heat waves in the summer months across the hemispheres are becoming more the norm than the exception. The 2019 report by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that around 2.3 billion people could be both exposed and vulnerable to heatwave events due to 1.5°C of global warming.
G20's role in Marine Biodiversity
27 Oct 2020
| Ms Swati Ganeshan
| Dr Fraddry D Souza
Collectively, Group of Twenty (G20) countries are yet to reach the 10% target set under the 2020 Aichi biodiversity targets - including marine biodiversity - and SDGs. This policy brief explores policy options and best pratices for enhancing Marine Protected Areas (MPA).