Books and book chapters
Climate Policy
Climate Change: Policy, Institutional, and Legal Framework
Navroz K Dubash, Aditya Valiathan Pillai et al
Oxford University Press | 23 July 2024
Transforming towards a low-carbon, climate-resilient society will require reimagining existing governance arrangements. This chapter in ‘The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India’ documents how India’s policies, institutions, and legal structures have changed in response to climate change.
Opinions
Climate Policy
A law around low-carbon climate resilient development
Navroz K Dubash, Aditya Valiathan Pillai and Shibani Ghosh
The Hindu | 8 July 2024
Authors lay out an institutional vision for India’s climate law – knowledge-based ‘low-carbon development commission’; ‘climate cabinet’ to drive strategy; executive coordination body; and mechanisms for federal engagement.
Opinions
Climate Policy
Court on climate right and how India can enforce it
Navroz K Dubash, Shibani Ghosh and Aditya Valiathan Pillai
The Hindu | 1 July 2024
Because India is still developing, is highly vulnerable, and yet to build much of its infrastructure, what the country needs is a law that enables progress toward both low-carbon and climate resilient development.
Opinions
Climate Policy
Unpacking climate policy
Navroz K Dubash
Science Magazine | 6 June 2024
Policies that can usefully address climate change mitigation extend far beyond what an earlier literature defined as “mitigation policy”, which incorporates policy instrument design to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by means of, for instance, carbon tax, cap and trade, or border carbon adjustment. Instead, there is value in thinking much more expansively about climate policy: Effective “climate policy” may not always be “climate” policy.
Climate Policy
Mission 1.5: Enhancing international cooperation, enabling meeting the Paris Climate Agreement goals
IDDRI | 30 May 2024
This Note is an expert perspective of the vision and key design elements of the Troika-led Mission 1.5 UNFCCC process in order to effectively address the significant gaps in action and support for transitioning to low-GHG and climate-resilient economies in line with the Paris Climate Agreement goals. It therefore contributes ideas to Mission 1.5’s design, as delegates and observers meet in Bonn in early June 2024 to advance climate negotiations.
SFC Perspectives
Adaptation and Resilience
Climate Policy
Energy Transitions
Environmental Governance and Policy
SFC Perspectives on Adaptation and Resilience, Climate Policy, Energy Transitions, and Environmental Governance and Policy
SFC
SFC | 19 March 2024
SFC Perspectives are intended to stimulate discussion by providing an overview of key issues and avenues for action to inform India’s sustainable development trajectory.
SFC Perspectives
Climate Policy
Perspectives on Climate Policy: Embedding a development-centric, climate-ready approach to policymaking
Aman Srivastava, Easwaran J Narassimhan and Navroz K Dubash
SFC | 18 March 2024
The Climate Policy group within SFC approaches policy challenges through a strategic lens, aiming for long-term structural change by shifting discourse, building stronger institutions, and aligning conditions for implementation.
Opinions
Climate Policy
Design national framework climate laws to enable low-carbon resilient transformation
Navroz K Dubash
Science | 15 February 2024
In countries where politics are embedded in local development concerns such as job creation or environmental issues, an enabling approach to climate law may work better than a purely regulatory approach.
Journal articles
Climate Policy
Strategies for green industrial and innovation policy–an analysis of policy alignment, misalignment, and realignment around dominant designs in the EV sector
Easwaran J Narassimhan, Zdenka Myslikova et al.
Environmental Research Letters | 7 December 2023
This paper explores which combination of technology-push and demand-pull policies best situates a country to lead in clean energy innovation, as new or dominant designs emerge and replace older technologies. A new analytical framework for green industrial policy is applied to BEV drivetrain technology to examine the use of policy alignment and misalignment by countries with big automakers as they pursue strategic green industrial policy.
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Projects
Climate Policy
The Climate Futures Project – Bridging Climate Policy and Models
Aman Srivastava, Navroz K. Dubash (SFC), Kaveri Iychettira and Eri Ikeda
18 March 2024
The Climate Futures Project is a joint initiative of the Sustainable Futures Collaborative and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to foster the informed and measured use of climate policy modelling studies by decision makers, scientists, journalists and concerned citizens.
Adaptation and Resilience
Climate Policy
Building a Climate-Ready State
Navroz K Dubash, Aditya Valiathan Pillai and Shibani Ghosh
18 March 2024
Laying out approaches to building a state capable of handling the transformations and pressures of climate change at national and sub-national levels.