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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The seed funding from the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) enabled the institutes in India and China to
launch the project, constitute steering committees, and facilitate
interaction between the research institutes. Support from Shakti
Sustainable Energy Foundation helped in further strengthening the
initial research through stakeholder consultation for informing policies
for incubation for India component. Support for outreach, in March
2014, from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing is also appreciated.
We thank Shri Prakash Javadekar, Hon’ble Minister of
State, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change,
Government of India, for providing encouragement.
We thank Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Former Chairman,
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Former Chairman
& Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute for his
visionary leadership, without which the project would not have been
possible. We express our gratitude to Mr Shiv Shankar Menon, Former
National Security Advisor, Government of India, for supporting the
concept of the collaborative project. We are deeply appreciative of
Former Deputy Chairman Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Planning
Commission, Government of India, for his encouragement.
We thank Minister Xie Zhenhua, Former Vice Chairman, National
Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), for his support to the
initial concept, and Ms Huang Wenhang, Former Director, International
Cooperation Division, Department of Climate Change, NDRC, for the
direction of activities that helped in obtaining inputs from the Chinese
partner institutes. We benefitted from the guidance of Ambassador
Chandrashekhar Dasgupta and Dr Prodipto Ghosh who advised on
various aspects of the project. We extend our gratitude to Prof. Li
Junfeng, Director General, National Center for Climate Strategy and
International Cooperation (NCSC), for his encouragement. We would
like to acknowledge Dr Veerle Vandeweerd, the then Director of Energy
and Environment Group at UNDP who was instrumental in this effort.
We also appreciate the encouragement by Mr Gao Guangsheng, who
was DDG at the Department of Climate Change at the NDRC.
For the China component of the project, the Climate Change
Department of the National Development and Reform Commission
guided the activities; research was conducted by the National Centre
Acknowledgements xxv
The seed funding from the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) enabled the institutes in India and China to
launch the project, constitute steering committees, and facilitate
interaction between the research institutes. Support from Shakti
Sustainable Energy Foundation helped in further strengthening the
initial research through stakeholder consultation for informing policies
for incubation for India component. Support for outreach, in March
2014, from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing is also appreciated.
We thank Shri Prakash Javadekar, Hon’ble Minister of
State, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change,
Government of India, for providing encouragement.
We thank Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Former Chairman,
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Former Chairman
& Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute for his
visionary leadership, without which the project would not have been
possible. We express our gratitude to Mr Shiv Shankar Menon, Former
National Security Advisor, Government of India, for supporting the
concept of the collaborative project. We are deeply appreciative of
Former Deputy Chairman Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Planning
Commission, Government of India, for his encouragement.
We thank Minister Xie Zhenhua, Former Vice Chairman, National
Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), for his support to the
initial concept, and Ms Huang Wenhang, Former Director, International
Cooperation Division, Department of Climate Change, NDRC, for the
direction of activities that helped in obtaining inputs from the Chinese
partner institutes. We benefitted from the guidance of Ambassador
Chandrashekhar Dasgupta and Dr Prodipto Ghosh who advised on
various aspects of the project. We extend our gratitude to Prof. Li
Junfeng, Director General, National Center for Climate Strategy and
International Cooperation (NCSC), for his encouragement. We would
like to acknowledge Dr Veerle Vandeweerd, the then Director of Energy
and Environment Group at UNDP who was instrumental in this effort.
We also appreciate the encouragement by Mr Gao Guangsheng, who
was DDG at the Department of Climate Change at the NDRC.
For the China component of the project, the Climate Change
Department of the National Development and Reform Commission
guided the activities; research was conducted by the National Centre
Acknowledgements xxv
