TY - JOUR
AU - Vaibhav Chaturvedi
AU - Arunabha Ghosh
AU - Amit Garg
AU - Vidhee Avashia
AU - Saritha Vishwanathan
AU - Dipti Gupta
AU - Nilesh Sinha
AU - Chandra Bhushan
AU - Srestha Banerjee
AU - Divya Datt
AU - Juhi Bansal
AU - Minal Pathak
AU - Subash Dhar
AU - Ajeet Singh
AU - Nayeem Khan
AU - Rajani Rashmi
AU - Shalu Agrawal
AU - Disha Agarwal
AU - Anjali Singh
AU - Thirumalai C
AU - Siddharth Saxena
AU - Vikram Vishal
AU - Udayan Singh
AU - Dharik Mallapragada
AU - Rajiv Chaturvedi
AU - Aditya Pillai
AU - Vibhuti Garg
AU - Santosh Singh
AU - Kavya Hari
AU - Nandakumar Janardhanan
AU - Eric Zusman
AU - Diptiranjan Mahapatra
AU - Shuva Raha
AU - Tulika Gupta
AU - Sumit Prasad
AB - The 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.
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N2 - The 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.
PB - IOP Publishing
PY - 2024
EP - 112501
T2 - Environmental Research Letters
TI - India’s pathway to net zero by 2070: status, challenges, and way forward
UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad7749
VL - 19
ER -