Climate change represents a significant threat to the Indian economy due to already evident heat stress, reductions in freshwater supply, soil drying, more intensive tropical cyclones, monsoons, and sea-level rise, amongst other impacts. At the same time, global warming creates economic opportunities for India as new technologies and industries required to decarbonise must be developed, manufactured, and deployed at scale. This article identifies specific and concrete policy pathways for deep decarbonisation in India. It emphasises the country’s economic opportunities, including job creation, in the transition—as the country becomes competitive in its transition towards a net-zero economy beyond the mid-century.
India’s policy pathways for deep decarbonisation | ORF (orfonline.org)
