State of global environmental governance 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic brought devastation in 2020, including to plans to ramp up international cooperation on climate action, biodiversity restoration, reducing inequality, and a number of other crises.
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
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India's energy transition: the cost of meeting air pollution standards in the coal-fired electricity sector
In 2015, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change legislated new standards to limit the concentration of sulphur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM) and mercury (Hg)
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Mapping policy for solar irrigation across the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus in India
This paper seeks to assist policy-makers and researchers in India who are working to promote the uptake of off-grid, solar-powered pumps for groundwater irrigation. It begins by setting out key WEF linkages
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Modelling for sustainable development: new decisions for a new age
This book brings together the insights and expertise of a dozen expert modellers and policy analysts, who completed this project on modelling for sustainable development in June 2019 using the "Book Sprints"
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India's energy transition: subsidies for gasoline, diesel and electric vehicles
A fuel price cut by India’s central government from October 2018 to June 2019 resulted in subsidies of INR 26,957 crore (USD 3.9 billion) for gasoline and diesel. This far overshadowed funding for the
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Tackling coal-driven air pollution in China and India: lessons learned for Indonesia
As the three most populous countries in Asia, China, India and Indonesia share a lot in common when it comes to projected significant economic growth, and along with it, an increase in the power capacity
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Getting to 23 per cent: Strategies to scale up renewables in Indonesia
Despite the challenging policy environment, there are also opportunities for real progress in several areas between now and 2025. This report addresses seven concrete ways in which the Indonesian government
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Fossil fuel to clean energy subsidy swaps: how to pay for an energy revolution
This report presents the case for a "subsidy swap"—reallocating some of the savings from fossil fuel subsidy reform to fund the clean energy transition. Fossil fuel to clean energy subsidy swaps are already
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Raising ambition through fossil fuel subsidy reform: greenhouse gas emissions results modelling from 26 countries
This working paper models the impact of the removal of fossil fuel subsidies on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions for the following countries: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, Germany,
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India’s energy transition: stranded coal power assets, workers and energy subsidies
This issue brief takes a detailed look at why such a large share of coal power is struggling today and the drivers—including subsidies—that may cause similar crises to rear their heads in future. In light
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Policy approaches for a kerosene to solar subsidy swap in India
Switching subsides from kerosene to off-grid solar would benefit the millions of Indian households that suffer frequent blackouts or that cannot afford grid electricity. A range of off-grid solar products