Nandini Das

Climate Analytics | CLIMATEANALYTICS

It is both a challenge and an opportunity for the Indian power sector to strike a strategic balance between fast-paced economic growth, structural shift and social development without being on high greenhouse gas (GHG) emission pathway. The goal of this paper is to develop alternative scenarios for low GHG emission trajectory for next three decades...

Following Part I of this study, this chapter highlights each region in the world as having its own solution and approach to considering natural gas as a fuel of choice for smooth transition towards a sustainable energy world. Although energy sustainability is recognised as a global challenge, many of the issues inherent in this domain are site-spec...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

This article aims to present historical rate of decoupling and based on that determine the scope for India to increase its mitigation beyond the NDC commitment. Empirical evidence on nature and rate of decoupling between energy related emission and economic growth for the period 1990–91 to 2012–13 in India is presented. In addition to estimating th...

Current discourse on the transition to a decarbonized energy system future is dominated by renewable energy solutions. Initial conditions for this transition may vary across different regions and countries. There are, however, also opportunities for innovative solutions that utilize other low‐carbon energy sources and technology mix. Sustainable de...

It is beyond debate now that future ‘global’ stabilization target is fundamental to manage climate change, impacts and associated risks. Mainstream debate is around the nature of coordination among the national goals with global target of limiting the average temperature increase to 1.5 or below 2 degrees centigrade above the pre-industrial level....

It is both a challenge and an opportunity for the Indian power sector to strike a strategic balance between fast-paced economic growth, structural shift and social development without being on high Green House Gas (GHG) emission pathway. Goal of this paper is to develop alternative scenarios for low GHG emission trajectory for next three decades. I...