Policy Brief

Battery Electric Technology In The Heavy-Duty Vehicle Segment

08 Jul 2022
| Mr Sharif Qamar
| Faiz Jamal

70% of total tonne-km of India's freight transport takes place via roads (TERI, 2015) and is dominated by medium and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs) with a share of around 60% and the remaining by light-duty vehicles (LDVs). Reduced emission levels from 'hard to abate' sectors such as medium/heavy-duty long-distance transport, aviation, and shipping will continue to be critical in the future. Sustained efforts in this direction are crucial to achieving emission intensity reduction targets globally and in India, as outlined in the country's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

Joint Crediting Mechanism and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement: Strengthening Japan-India Technology Collaboration

01 Jul 2022
| Dorothy Ashmita Biswas, Soham Banerjee, Kentaro Tamura, Nanda Kumar Janardhanan, Temuulen Murun

Under the ambit of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, this issue brief explores the potential of a Japan –India partnership and examines the opportunities for shaping mutual ties through the Joint Crediting Mechanism.

Transitioning to a Low Carbon Technology for the Road Transport in India

14 Mar 2022
| Mr Abhishek Kaushik
| Mr Shanmuganathan K
| Ms Sachi Vohra
| Mr G Renjith

India is the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. At present, India accounts for a significant multimodal road transport sector contributing approximately 10 per cent of country’s total CO2 emissions, making it the second most carbon emitting sector in the country. Driven by rising population, income, and urbanization, under a business-as-usual scenario, India’s energy demand from transport is projected to increase six fold in 2050 from current levels. Therefore, decarbonizing the transport sector in India can help to substantially reduce these environmental impacts.

Moving towards Aggregation: Freight Forwarder Scheme of Railways

15 Feb 2022
| Ms Palak Passi

One of the key strategies in the Union Budget 2022 for increasing rail freight market share, aims at facilitating the integration of smaller goods through seamless solutions and multimodal logistics facilities at cargo terminals. Despite an increase in railways' market share to 45% by 2030, a key transport decarbonization strategy for India, it continues to exhibit a gradual decline due to a variety of reasons.

Developing Rail Freight Terminals: Energizing Private Partnerships

15 Feb 2022
| Ms Viral Joshi

Railways has often been termed as the "backbone of the economy", facilitating passenger and freight transportation to the length and breadth of the country. In recent years, railways has experienced a constant decline in the freight business, resulting in a growing concern for railway finances and National Decarbonisation Targets.

Contamination of Heavy Metals in India

25 Nov 2021
| Ms Vidhu Gupta
| Dr Kanhaiya Lal
| Ms Mahima Uttreja

Heavy metal pollution is a great concern for the environment and human health, especially in developing countries like India. Owing to their toxic, non-degradable and bio-accumulative nature, health burden on the population has increased significantly.

Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) and Indian Aviation Industry

02 Nov 2021
| Mr R R Rashmi
| Ms Sachi Vohra

The Indian aviation market is on a high growth trajectory. This growth will eventually lead to a significant environmental challenge, the most important being the increase in GHG emissions. Based on the current emissions, India’s airline industry is projected to emit around 50 million tonne of CO2 in 2035 (domestic and international) at 5% annual emissions growth rate. Remarkably, this number is equivalent to the current emissions of the United States sourcing from international operations alone. Within the total share of emissions projected for the Indian aviation industry in 2035, 24.4% (around 12.2 million tonne) will come from international operations.

Emerging Role of Blue Finance in the Asia-Pacific Region

29 Oct 2021
| Ms Mani Juneja

The policy brief critically examines pathways in which the funding gap for implementing SDG 14 targets can be bridged, using tools such as well-defined regulatory framework and collective partnership.

Green Steel through Hydrogen Direct Reduction: A Study on the Role of Hydrogen in the Indian Iron and Steel Sector

18 Aug 2021
| Mr Will Hall
| Mr Robert Millner
| Mr Johannes Rothberger
| Mr Amar Singh
| Mr Chirag K Shah

The policy brief analyses the role of steel production through low carbon hydrogen technology as India moves on the path of balancing its development goals with its climate action targets.

Co-innovation of low-carbon technologies for SMES: A framework for strengthening technology cooperation between Japan and India

11 Aug 2021
| Mr Girish Sethi
| Mr Prosanto Pal
| Mr Nandakumar Janardhanan
| Mr Eric Zusman
| Mr Kentaro Tamura
| Prof. Eri Ikeda

Co-innovation can enhance cooperation with Japanese firms and facilitate the successful transfer of low carbon technologies in small and medium enterprises in India to further the country's energy transition