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A Low Carbon Economy for India

Transforming the energy system, improving economy and reducing carbon emissions. These are the milestones of the Indian climate challenge. “We are working to become a more modern country and to build an economy where emissions would be significantly lower”, Prof. Shukla says. The solution requires a large portfolio of energy options and a different perception of the problem: “The conventional perception – Prof. Shukla explains – looks at energy related technologies and innovations from the supply side. Now, we are also looking for solutions that are coming from the demand side”. On the path toward a sustainable development, is the 2 degrees target achievable?

published April 8th, 2010
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Implementing Climate and Development Policy in India

Some climate policies constitutes a win-win solution for climate and development. Authors at Cired analyze the potential for implementing synergies between climate and development looking at the case of India, where power sector is characterized by many institutional and market failures, capacity shortage and structural underinvestment.
A carbon price only scenario will induce prohibitive macroeconomic costs, authors say, but enlarge the spectrum of climate policies and synergies between climate policies and development policies should be used for mitigation cost assessment

published November 13th, 2009
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India’s Evolving Climate Change Strategy

The Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh claims: “India wants to be a deal-maker, not a deal-breaker”. What does it means?
Authors give us the answer reviewing the history of India’s position on climate change and elaborating on the actual content of the Minister’s words and their implications in domestic measures and international negotiations: India is demonstrating a willingness to undertake mitigation actions and has now thrown the ball back at the developed world

published November 13th, 2009
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