Authors
Joyashree Roy, Debalina Chakravarty, Shyamasree Dasgupta, Debrupa Chakraborty, Shamik Pal, Duke Ghosh
Publication date
2018/4/1
Source
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume
31
Pages
96-103
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Densely populated cities in India provide scope for deep decarbonisation.
- City infrastructure, policy, user response has the potential to provide additional mitigation in India.
- Lifestyle-choice is in favour of comfortable public transport and fuel switch.
- Shifting preference towards energy efficient appliances and mandatory building codes.
- New urban living and mobility styles are emerging in India with long term mitigation benefit.
Driving economic growth through a low carbon trajectory will be a challenge as well as an opportunity for India in next three decades with a billion plus population. Cities are going to play a major role in this rapidly urbanising India. The scope of this article is to focus on some of the ongoing city-scale actions, which clearly indicate that India can strengthen its response by going beyond its NDCs. A combination of technology penetration, individual behaviour, community actions and policy …
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