
Joyashree RoyAsian Institute of Technology · SMARTS Center
Joyashree Roy
Ph D in Economics
Model Power sector decarbonization pathway, mitigation and adaptation choices and costs -benefits , equity in transition
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Introduction
Joyashree Roy is currently at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand as Distinguished Professor and Director of SMARTS Center at AIT. Joyashree does research in mitigation, adaptation, sustainable development, equity, peace, Environmental Economics, Energy Economics and Econometrics.
Additional affiliations
August 2018 - present
August 1997 - July 1998
Position
- Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow, Visiting Researcher
Description
- First was as Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow in environmental economics for one year then as visiting researcher for four times, now as a member of HESN network of UCB, as CO-PI (Jointly with Prof A. Gadgil) of IUSSTF Project
April 1991 - present
Education
October 1980 - December 1991
October 1980 - October 1989
April 1976 - March 1978
Publications
Publications (311)
The shift towards sustainable energy management, with a focus on demand-side flexibility which refers to the strategic adjustment of consumer power usage to match electricity supply variability, requires precise load forecasting that captures consumer behavior and consumption patterns to harmonize electricity supply and minimize costs. Traditional...
Climate change research is broad, diverse and constantly growing. Cross- and interdisciplinary understanding is essential for generating robust science advice for policy. However, it is challenging to prioritise and navigate the ever-expanding peer-reviewed literature. To address this, we gathered input from experts across various research fields t...
This paper argues that a fit-for-purpose model and datasets are necessary to generate transition pathways for the electricity generation sector at the subnational level. We present the methodology, data, and results focusing at a sub-national level, the state of West Bengal in India. The approach can be generalized for any region with necessary cus...
In every Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment cycle, a multitude of scenarios are assessed, with different scope and emphasis throughout the various Working Group reports and special reports, as well as their respective chapters. Within the reports, the ambition is to integrate knowledge on possible climate futures across the...
It is now well established that the demand side can contribute substantially to climate change mitigation thus increasing the solution space. The recent IPCC synthesis report for the first time explicitly reflected this class of solutions. Here, we provide an overview of an unique set of 22 review papers published in the focus issue of Environmenta...
This paper presents Modified Technology Innovation System (MTIS) approach applicable for developing countries. Using evidence of three decades 1992-2022 the paper shows how policy played a catalytic role in managing multidimensional low emission mobility transition in a developing country like Pakistan. This paper follows policy, network of actors,...
The authors are all devoted energy system and sustainability transformation scholars, who collaborate regularly and actively at global and local levels to advance the knowledge space of demand-side solutions and policies. They are members of a growing bottom-up initiative, the Energy Demand Changes Induced by Technological and Social Innovations (E...
A sustainable energy sector and achieving carbon neutrality in microgrids require a firm commitment to renewable energy resources. A sharp focus on solar energy holds the most promising potential for a low-carbon energy pathway. Efficient and optimal energy management application in the case of such microgrid systems requires the development of an...
Non-technical summary
We identify a set of essential recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, across natural and social sciences: (1) looming inevitability and implications of overshooting the 1.5°C warming limit, (2) urgent need for a rapid and managed fossil fuel phase-out, (3) challenges for scaling carbon dioxide r...
In every IPCC Assessment cycle, a multitude of scenarios are assessed, with different scope and emphasis throughout the various Working Group and Special Reports and their respective chapters. Within the reports, the ambition is to integrate knowledge on possible climate futures across the Working Groups and scientific research domains based on a s...
Fast-growing economies like Bangladesh are expected to experience high growth in GDP, and in energy use with structural shifts towards digitalization and industrialization in the coming decades. However, given the goal of global net zero carbon growth, energy sector development will need to satisfy multiple sustainability criteria simultaneously. T...
Urbanized coastal geographies with high population density but with low adaptive capacity are more exposed to threats of both rapid and slow onset weather events. Altered coasts along the Bay of Bengal is one such geography where general urbanization trend coupled with new policy driven tourism activity promotion is increasing exposure to frequent...
The IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report is based on the three Working Group contributions to the AR6 as well as on the three Special Reports prepared in this assessment cycle.
A mid-century net zero target creates a challenge for reducing the emissions of emissions-intensive, trade-exposed sectors with high cost mitigation options. These sectors include aluminium, cement, chemicals, iron and steel, lime, pulp and paper and petroleum refining. Available studies agree that decarbonization of these sectors is possible by mi...
Implementing mitigation options through adoption of alternative practices entail cost. Methane emission from paddy/rice cultivation accounts for approximately one-fifth of India’s total methane emission. It occurs mainly due to flooded paddy cultivation practices which accounts for 30% of land under paddy cultivation in India. Several practices are...
Chapter 5 (Demand, services and social aspects of mitigation),
explores how mitigation interacts with meeting human needs and access to services. It explores, inter alia: sustainable production and consumption; patterns of development and indicators of wellbeing; the role of culture, social norms, practices and behaviour changes; the sharing econom...
This article presents the factors that help build the adaptive capacity of individuals to reduce vulnerability from natural threats. The findings are based on primary data on individuals engaged in various livelihood practices in the Digha-Sankarpur- Mandarmoni region along the eastern coastline of the Bay of Bengal in India. Coastal communities ha...
The Summary for Urban Policymakers (SUP) series distils the IPCC reports into targeted summaries to inform action at the city and regional scale. This third volume in the series, What the Latest Science on Climate Change Mitigation Means for Cities and Urban Areas offers a concise and accessible distillation of the IPCC Working Group III Report for...
Non-technical summary
We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, inclusive societal climate...
This Cross-Chapter Box highlights the intersecting issues of gender, climate change adaptation, climate justice and transformative
pathways. A gender perspective does not centre only on women or men but examines structures, processes and relationships of power
between and among groups of men and women and how gender, particularly in its non-binary...
Climate change impacts are being felt across sectors in all regions of the world, and adaptation projects are being implemented to reduce climate risks and existing vulnerabilities. Climate adaptation actions also have significant synergies and tradeoffs with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 5 on gender equality. Questions ar...
Food waste reduction at consumer end and balanced, sustainable healthy dietary choices featuring less meat and less processed food have clear climate change mitigation benefits. This paper synthesises the existing body of literature (2015–2022) following systematic evidence search and screening using Scopus database and Google Scholar to explore th...
While the linkage between poverty and climatic hazard outcomes is well documented in the development agenda along with the role of disaster risk financing, dynamic subnational-level statistical assessment of causal effects of formal insurance on climatic hazard outcomes has been scarce to date. This paper investigates the relationship between insur...
Increased wealth and per capita energy use have transformed lives and shaped societies, but energy poverty remains a global challenge. Previous research has shown positive relationships among metrics of health and happiness and economic indices such as income and gross domestic product and between energy use and human development. To our knowledge,...
The southeastern coastline of Bangladesh where the longest natural sea beach Cox’s Bazar is located has experienced more pronounced changes due to human intervention compared to the changes due to storms, cyclones and flooding. Over the past 30 years, nature-dependent livelihood and economic activities have generated employment, income and shelter...
The Working Group III (WG III) contribution to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) assesses literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of mitigation of climate change. The report reflects new findings in the relevant literature and builds on previous IPCC reports, including the WG III contribution t...
On March 16, 2020, Kolkata megacity in India announced partial lockdown due to COVID-19 crisis. This study presents an analysis for multiple pollutants with special focus on NO2 and O3 based on data from different monitoring stations located to across Kolkata city for the period from 16 March-17 May 2020 compared to the pre-lockdown period. Most si...
Climate change and associated increase in climatic variability is projected to increase risks to our food security. Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), which includes several technological, institutional and policy interventions, can help us increase production and adapt to climate change with significant greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation co-benefits....
This paper analyzed users’ willingness to pay (WTP) for safe drinking water in a resource-poor region in West Bengal, India, with dangerously high groundwater arsenic concentrations. The study was carried out during the installation of an Electro Chemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) water treatment plant at the site. Using a contingent valuation met...
In this paper, we present the results of a rapid review of the literature on gender and coastal climate adaptation. The IPCC’s 2019 Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere (SROCC) highlighted some of the major ways in which gender inequality interacts with coastal climate change. However, the report does not consider how gender interacts with adapt...
Mainstreaming flood risk reduction into spatial planning (MFRRSP) recognizes the urgent need for sustainable human settlement planning. Despite official recognition of MFRRSP in Thailand, repetitive damage from floods demonstrates gaps in concept and implementation. This paper examines the transition and challenges of flood risk reduction (FRR) pra...
Mitigation solutions are often evaluated in terms of costs and greenhouse gas reduction potentials, missing out on the consideration of direct effects on human well-being. Here, we systematically assess the mitigation potential of demand-side options categorized into avoid, shift and improve, and their human well-being links. We show that these opt...
Home garden is a complex multi-functional land use system that combines multiple farming components of the homestead and provides environmental services, household needs, and employment and income generation opportunities to the households. Predicted climate changes have serious implications for crop and livestock yields particularly in tropical re...
Home Garden is a complex sustainable land use system that combines multiple farming components of the homestead and provides environmental services, household needs, and employment and income generation opportunities to the households. Predicted climate changes have serious implications for crop and livestock yields particularly in tropical regions...
The economics of Biorights draws in concepts from sustainable development, common property resource economics, environmental economics, ecological economics. We use the concept of opportunity costs applicable in market based socio-economic system but also focus on total economic value going beyond market exchange value without losing sights of righ...
In the climate change mitigation context based on the blue hydrogen concept, a narrative frame is presented in this paper to build the argument for solving the energy trilemma, which is the possibility of job loss and stranded asset accumulation with a sustainable energy solution in gas- and oil-rich regions, especially for the Persian Gulf region....
Exposure to airborne particulates is a major occupational hazard especially for outdoor workers who spending time outdoors at ground level getting exposed to traffic fumes and roadside dust. Aim of this study was to assess respiratory health symptoms and determine the change of lung functions of the roadside vendors and its association with traffic...
This study evaluated a potential transition of India’s power sector to 100% wind and solar energy sources. Applying a macro-energy IDEEA (Indian Zero Carbon Energy Pathways) model to 32 regions and 114 locations of potential installation of wind energy and 60 locations of solar energy, we evaluated a 100% renewable power system in India as a concep...
This article presents a critical assessment of 40 years of research that may be brought under the umbrella of energy efficiency, spanning different aggregations and domains—from individual producing and consuming agents to economy-wide effects to the role of innovation to the influence of policy. After 40 years of research, energy efficiency initia...
In recent years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been collaborating with Indian institutions to organise outreach events. This essay draws on the
perspective of participants, speakers and organisers of 17 in-person outreach events conducted across India in 2018 and 2020, to share insights and recommendations for future
IPCC...
How Bangladesh transformed it's socio-economic achievements to graduate itself from least developed country to middle income country and look forward to attaining the developed country status in next two decades. Natural gas, use of it for productive purpose domestically and right institutions leadership, democracy and peoples' empowerment with foc...
In the context of the global need for the accelerated penetration of renewable sources in the energy mix, it is important to understand how fast-growing countries such as Bangladesh can participate in the global process by sequencing or combining actions to overcome multiple national-level barriers. This study analyzed how national-level barriers i...
This study evaluates the benefits that rural households in India derive from dedicated solar microgrid service systems. A case study was conducted in Lakshmipura-Jharla, Rajasthan, a village in western India with significant potential for producing solar energy. In 2013, a private investor set up a solar microgrid in the village and distributed ene...
Citation: Das, N.; Dasgupta, S.; Roy, J.; Langhelle, O.; Assadi, M. Emission Mitigation and Energy Security Trade-Off: Role of Natural Gas in the Indian Power Sector. Energies 2021, 14, 3787. https://doi.org/10.3390/ Abstract: India's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) aim to increase the share of non-fossil fuel, especially renewables, in p...
The 2017 flash flood happened due to unusual premonsoon heavy rainfall in the upper catchment areas of northeastern wetland, popularly called Haor, regions of Bangladesh. The heavy rainfall occurred 1 month ahead of regular calendar time and left a cascading effect. Income and livelihood security of people living in these wetland areas of Banglades...
The wide variety of economic activities, which prevail along the coasts, has either direct or indirect connectivity with the coastal ecosystems through provisioning of diverse range of goods and services. However, these systems are permanently under pressure due to natural and anthropogenic threats. This field-based study documents the changing pat...
This session will provide a global overview of technical mitigation solutions and challenges, and the key issues for COP26.
COVID 19 recovery path, economic growth path and climate resilient path have much in common to help in building back better for Bangladesh which experienced multiple hazards due to hydro-meteorological disasters during the pandemic year. Changing the framework around this intersection of sustainable developmental actions can strengthen the producti...
143 This white paper recognises that for the decision makers and policy makers implementation of any intervention for changing the existing service delivery model, production model, market or regulatory model that impacts consumers and citizens are the most challenging tasks. Uncertainties about consumers and citizens' responses lead to delays or s...
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The twenty-first century economic growth agenda needs to be reframed to ensure that cleaner production and consumption processes—goal 12 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—go hand in hand with pursuing dignified sustainable living for all (1). The impacts of COVID-19 have made the basic needs for human wellbeing even more c...
Background: To strengthen current discourse on acceleration and scale up of the emissions mitigation actions by sector specific demand side interventions, information on intersection of three dimensions becomes useful. First, what kind of actions help in avoiding, shifting and improving (ASI) demand for activities/services and resultant emissions s...
Many developing countries including Bangladesh and India will need fast growth through next two decades in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to meet basic aspirations for decent living standards for their people. This will mean increased need for energy resources. However, global carbon emission limits put additional constraints on these fast-growing co...
As current action remains insufficient to meet the goals of the Paris agreement let alone to stabilize the climate, there is increasing hope that solutions related to demand, services and social aspects of climate change mitigation can close the gap. However, given these topics are not investigated by a single epistemic community, the literature ba...
This white paper recognises that for the decision-makers and policymakers implementation of any intervention for changing the existing service delivery model, production model, market or regulatory model that impacts consumers and citizens are the most challenging tasks. Uncertainties about consumers and citizens' responses lead to delays or subopt...
Non-technical summary: We summarize some of the past year's most important findings within climate change-related research. New research has improved our understanding of Earth's sensitivity to carbon dioxide, finds that permafrost thaw could release more carbon emissions than expected and that the uptake of carbon in tropical ecosystems is weakeni...
India has been collaboratively hosting public dissemination events to communicate climate change science and knowledge using Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports since 2007. All three special reports from Sixth Assessment cycle have been presented in multiple outreach events in various states of India. The primary aim has been t...
Bangladesh, a country of 160 million people with declining population growth rate, to deliver human wellbeing equitably is justifiably poised for high economic growth rate. Framing 21st century economic growth agenda to achieve not only narrowly focused
GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth but focused towards human wellbeing is especially challengin...
COVID 19 recovery path, economic growth path and climate resilient path have much in common to help in building back better for Bangladesh which experienced multiple hazards due to hydro-meteorological disasters during the pandemic year. Changing the framework around this intersection of sustainable developmental actions can strengthen the producti...
Climate mitigation solutions are often evaluated in terms of their costs and potentials. This accounting, however, shortcuts a comprehensive evaluation of how climate solutions affect human well-being, which, at best, may only be crudely related to cost considerations. Here, we systematically list key sectoral mitigation options on the demand side,...
As the international community’s best expression of a collective vision of a desirable future, the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a framework against which to assess the broader impact of emerging technologies. Implications of technologies and practices for removing CO2 from the atmosphere (CDR) are not fully understood and ha...
How a natural gas rich developing economy like Bangladesh growing at ~7% annually in the pre-pandemic period can envision a roadmap for Sustainable and Just energy transition using the investments in gas infrastructure is discussed in the article. Bangladesh is caught up in a complex combination of likely risks of rising stranded assets, redundancy...
This article presents a comparative analysis of the historical fast growth phase of the selected Asian countries-South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and China and Bangladesh focusing on the energy sector. The countries fueled their fast growth phase in the past century by heavy dependence on high carbon fossil fuel. In the changed framing of developme...
On March 16, 2020, Kolkata, a megacity located in the eastern part of India announced partial lockdown due to COVID-19 crisis ahead of the India-wide lockdown pronouncement with effect from March 25, 2020. This study presents an analysis for multiple pollutants with special focus on NO 2 and O 3, based on data from different monitoring stations loc...