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for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, Central
University of Finance and Economics, and Zhejiang University. For
the India component, the project is implemented by The Energy and
Resources Institute (TERI) under the leadership of Dr R K Pachauri.
The India project is under the guidance of a Steering Committee
chaired by Mr B K Chaturvedi, Former Member, Planning Commission;
members of the India Steering Committee include Dr R K Pachauri,
Dr Pronab Sen, Ms Lise Grande, Ambassador Chandrashekhar
Dasgupta, Dr Prodipto Ghosh, Mr Krishan Dhawan, Ms Meher
Pudumjee, Dr Suman Bery, Dr Parthasarathi Shome, and Mr Rattan
Watal. The Steering Committee members for the Chinese component
include Mr Su Wei, Mr Christophe Bahuet, Mr Nils Martin Gunneng,
Ms Huang Wenhang, and Prof. Zou Ji.
We acknowledge Beijing Jiaotong University for their research
support to Zhejiang University. We thank experts from China Banking
Regulatory Commission, China Association for Public Companies,
UBS, CITIC Securities, AEGON-Industrial Fund Management, Bank of
China, and Industrial Bank for their valuable opinions.
We thank the Climate Change Department of the NDRC, China,
and the UNDP for providing support to launch the project on May 16,
2012 in Beijing. We thank the Indian Embassy for their encouragement
towards this South-South Cooperation initiative. We thank the Embassy
of the People’s Republic of China in New Delhi for facilitating the visa
process for the project.
We specially acknowledge Ms Goerild Heggelund and Ms Samantha
Anderson for their perseverance regarding the project. We thank
Mr Qingtian Zheng from UNDP China for coordinating the outreach
activities and Mr Steven Sabey for his guidance on the final stages of
the study launch. We are thankful to Mr Srinivasan Iyer, Dr Preeti Soni,
and Mr Sunil Arora from UNDP India Country Office. From Shakti
Sustainable Energy Foundation, we gratefully acknowledge Kunal
Sharma and Sriya Mohanty. We would like to thank and acknowledge
the peer reviewers of the (Chinese) papers—Dr Luis Gomez-Echeverri,
Dr Simon Zadek, Dr Manuel Soriano, and Dr Jackie Hoi-Wai Cheng.
We thank Ms Yuge Ma, PhD Scholar, Oxford University,
Mr Han Cheng, Research Scholar, and Mr Zhang Yang, M Phil
Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, for the cultural richness they
bring, inspiring us to continue research on China–India cooperation.
We thank students from TERI University—Mr Akhil Aggarwal,
Mr Tshotsho Borat, Ms Paavani Sachdeva, and Ms Mahima Vasishth—

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