Sector: Undertaken By: Council on Energy, Environment and Water Recent Publication: 2021
Between 2005 to 2012, the demand for primary energy from the industrial sector increased more than two-fold, primarily driven by the economic growth of the sector. But India's manufacturing sector continues to depend heavily on traditional, carbon-intensive fuel sources to meet its energy demands. The share of India’s industrial emissions in over...
Sector: Undertaken By: Creative Footprints Recent Publication: 2021
India’s rail network is a significant growth engine for our economy, and its expansion must be aligned with robust decarbonization strategies. The Railways has embarked on an ambitious 100% electrification target and announced an ambitious Station Redevelopment programme. Railway stations are dynamic public spaces that act as high-density 24x7...
Sector: Undertaken By: World Resources Institute Recent Publication: 2021
Bus systems are integral to providing efficient public transport systems in cities due to their low implementation costs, flexible operations and easy scalability. To create a more strategic vision for improved bus services, Shakti has been collaborating with the Bus Karo programme. Bus Karo is a peer-to-peer knowledge sharing network consisting of...
Sector: Undertaken By: entre for Science and Environment Recent Publication: 2021
Deteriorating air quality in Indian cities is a growing and serious concern. A major cause of this is the increasing emissions from the rapidly growing transport sector. Substantially improving vehicle efficiency has the potential to reduce emmissions as well as enhance energy and enrionment security....
Sector: Undertaken By: Vasudha Foundation Recent Publication: 2021
India’s power sector has been evolving rapidly over the last few years, with several new developments on policy, programs, targets and achievements. Planning, implementation, monitoring of efforts and operations of the power system have become complex and necessitate strong data analytics. Today, various power sector institutions generate and ...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2021
Recognizing the need to combat dangerous air pollution, the Indian government launched the National Clean Air Program (NCAP) in 2019 to reduce outdoor air pollution (particulate matter) in 132 non-attainment Indian cities i.e. cities where air quality is worse than the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. India is severely affected by air pollut...
Sector: Undertaken By: ICF Consulting India Pvt. Ltd. Recent Publication: 2020
Rapid growth in energy, transport, and manufacturing sectors, combined with increasing urbanization, has had an adverse impact on air quality. The Government of India has taken a significant step by notifying the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) which targets reduction in particulate emission by 20-30% by 2024, over 2017 level, in all the 122 no...
Sector: Undertaken By: SGArchitects Recent Publication: 2020
To provide assistance to the targeted users (STU officials, bus operators, researchers etc), the FLEET tool is supported with a user manual. This document is developed by the project team for guiding the user regarding usability and functionality of the FLEET tool. The User manual explains step by step data inputs for each of user forms. It explain...
Sector: Undertaken By: Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Recent Publication: 2020
The Indian transport sector comprises distinct modes such as railways, road, inland waterways, air, and marine transport systems. Overall, 18% of India’s CO2 emissions come from road transport. The current challenge before India is to evolve a strategy, which ensures rapid economic growth in line with the aspirations of the people and at the same...
Sector: Undertaken By: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations Recent Publication: 2020
Electric vehicle (EV) adoption in India faces several challenges, with the distinct cost disadvantage of EVs vis-à-vis traditional internal combustion engine vehicles bring a major one. The battery in an EV is its most expensive component, accounting for 50 per cent of its total cost; thus, the affordability of EVs is directly proportional to the ...
Sector: Undertaken By: Intellecap Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd. Recent Publication: 2020
Given India’s extremely high sensitivity to climate-risk , it is important to develop advanced frameworks for our local context that can assist in climate risk identification and quantification for investment portfolios and suggest options for appropriate climate risk mitigation. Doing so requires an understanding of the current level of deployme...
Sector: Undertaken By: Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) India, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) India Recent Publication: 2020
Most greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in India are directly or indirectly related to the corporate (both public and privately-owned) sector and their full cooperation is required for India to meet its NDC commitments. Science-based targets (SBTs) provide companies with a clearly defined pathway to future-proof growth by specifying how much and how qu...
Sector: Undertaken By: KPMG Recent Publication: 2020
A majority India's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are directly or indirectly related to the corporate sector. Therefore, Indian businesses can play an important role in helping India achieve its Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement. Increasingly, corporates in India are beginning to recognise and measure climate related out...
Sector: Undertaken By: Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability Recent Publication: 2020
State governments have access to several finance options for climate change mitigation but administrative issues within state governments have led to sizeable under utilisation of available funds for climate-related investments. The reports in this initiative aim to analyse the mitigation-oriented climate finance options available to state governme...
Sector: Undertaken By: Climate Policy Initiative Recent Publication: 2020
The India Innovation Lab for Green Finance brings together experts from government, financial institutions, renewable energy, and infrastructure development to identify, develop, and accelerate innovative investment vehicles for green growth in India. More details on the website: https://www.climatefinancelab.org/...
Sector: Undertaken By: Society for Development Alternatives Recent Publication: 2020
State governments in India have well-defined development goals that are met through a variety of programs and investments in social and economic initiatives, infrastructure, industrialization, capacity development etc. Meeting these priorities in a climate-friendly manner requires a greater quantum of investments as compared to investments in stand...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2020
Currently, an estimated 237 million Indians lack access to any form of electricity, while an additional 100 million have less than four hours of electricity per day. At the same time, the Government of India has set a target of generating over 175 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2022. Decentralised Renewable Energy (DRE) can play a key role in mee...
Sector: Undertaken By: Center for Sustainability, Policy & Technology Management (SusPoT) Recent Publication: 2020
Developing and evaluating various low carbon electricity transition scenarios can be a powerful way to analyze the role of the power sector in climate mitigation. Long-term scenarios are required for an effective energy transition since they are informed by transparent, fact-based, country-specific parameters that address interdependencies of the e...
Sector: Undertaken By: Ananta Centre Recent Publication: 2020
The India-U.S. Track II Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change brings together a diverse array of thought leaders from India and the United States – including former senior government officials, industry leaders, and heads of civil society organizations – to inform and encourage India-U.S. partnership at a strategic level and on climate and ener...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2020
Shakti is enabling technical assistance to the Government of Bihar as well as brick makers and entrepreneurs in Bihar to support the adoption of cleaner and more efficient brick making technologies as well as resource efficient building materials like fly ash bricks. Brick makers are being assisted to comply with the recent order of the Bihar State...