03564nas a2200553   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260002400043100002300067700001900090700001400109700001900123700002500142700001600167700001700183700002000200700002100220700001500241700001600256700001700272700001600289700001600305700001600321700001800337700001800355700001800373700001700391700001700408700002100425700001800446700001700464700002400481700002100505700001800526700001700544700001800561700001500579700002700594700001600621700002600637700001500663700001700678700001700695245007900712856004800791300001100839490000700850520215300857       2024                            d  coctbIOP Publishing1 aVaibhav Chaturvedi1 aArunabha Ghosh1 aAmit Garg1 aVidhee Avashia1 aSaritha Vishwanathan1 aDipti Gupta1 aNilesh Sinha1 aChandra Bhushan1 aSrestha Banerjee1 aDivya Datt1 aJuhi Bansal1 aMinal Pathak1 aSubash Dhar1 aAjeet Singh1 aNayeem Khan1 aRajani Rashmi1 aShalu Agrawal1 aDisha Agarwal1 aAnjali Singh1 aThirumalai C1 aSiddharth Saxena1 aVikram Vishal1 aUdayan Singh1 aDharik Mallapragada1 aRajiv Chaturvedi1 aAditya Pillai1 aVibhuti Garg1 aSantosh Singh1 aKavya Hari1 aNandakumar Janardhanan1 aEric Zusman1 aDiptiranjan Mahapatra1 aShuva Raha1 aTulika Gupta1 aSumit Prasad00aIndia’s pathway to net zero by 2070: status, challenges, and way forward  uhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad7749  a1125010 v193 aThe announcement of India’s 2070 net-zero target has demonstrated the power of a credible policy signal and changed the course of India’s climate debate. While the Government of India (GoI) has not specified whether this target refers to carbon-dioxide or all greenhouse gases, the announcement has been a watershed moment in India’s climate policy. From questions related to whether and at what pace should India decarbonize its economy, various actors in India are now aligned towards this target. An important contribution to inform India’s net-zero journey has come through various modelling assessments undertaken by India’s institutions and researchers. While a few economy-wide net-zero modelling assessments are available, a comprehensive and integrated picture woven collaboratively by India’s climate experts is conspicuously missing. It is critical to complement quantitative modelling-based assessments with insightful perspectives of experts on India’s climate policy. Together, modelling based quantitative assessments and insightful qualitative perspectives of climate experts would be an instrumental force that will ensure that the country achieves its net-zero target by understanding synergies and trade-offs, harnessing opportunities, and avoiding risks along the way. This collaborative article discusses various aspects of pathways towards India’s net-zero goal to address the gap in literature by looking at broad and inter-related dimensions of ‘national and sub-national perspectives’, ‘sectoral and technological transitions’, and ‘enablers’ needed for India’s transition. While the larger net-zero debate relates to all greenhouse gases, we focus on carbon dioxide in our current effort. The assessment aims to inform not just India’s policy makers and stakeholders, but various researchers, practitioners and governments around the world for them to be better aware of the various aspects of India’s net-zero debate. It weaves the perspectives of experts from 24 institutions across the three broad dimensions to give a comprehensive view of a roadmap towards India’s net-zero future.