India’s Energy-Climate Dilemma: The Pursuit for Renewable Energy Guided by Existing Climate Change Policies

Sustainable energy transition readiness: A multicriteria assessment index

“…Straying from a national evaluation framework, Marinakis et al [47] present an assessment of rural communities' needs and priorities towards sustainable development, while IEA [48] unpacks key elements of policy packages for sustainable energy transitions, and Li and Strachan [10] explore whether and how energy system analysis can be broadened to better encompass the socio-political dimension,. Moreover, certain studies focus on a specific country and/or assess countries from a single perspective [49,50].…”

Relating Emissions of Carbon to Characteristics of Consumption in India

“…The absence of efficiency standards in production, transmission, distribution and use, as well as the use of low quality coal, implied (as Figures 1 and 2 indicate) enormous increases in carbon emissions due to this shift to electricity. It is only near the end of the time span of this study that the National Electricity Policy (2005) and the National Action Plan on Climate Change (2008) spelt out the need to use non-fossils and introduced a tariff structure that favoured them, but even in 2010, renewables constituted only 9 per cent of the total [43]. As seen earlier (Table 1), the use of energy by each individual for the purpose of cooking and lighting has increased over time, this, combined with the preponderance of electricity (for lighting) is negating the positive impacts of a shift to LPG (as evident from Figures 1 and 2), and upper class and urban India play a prominent role in this process.…”

Insights on the Global Climatic Changes and their Discernible Impacts

“…Apostoli and Gough [3] addressed the energy crisis in India in the process of its economic growth. The article suggests that the developing nations act in environmentally responsible and judicious ways.…”