For a country with per capita electricity consumption of ~900 kWh per year, and demand growing at 3 percent per year, "phase down" is as hard as "phase out".

As #COP26 winds down and the normal politics return backstage, am going to curate a list of news items that will miss the wood for the trees and indulge in finger-pointing.

If you think India should phase out coal bc Delhi, you have no sense what is causing air pollution in Delhi, no sense of the country (Delhi isn't the only city 🙄), no sense of what transpired at #COP26 & no sense of global emissions trajectory. Basically, you just want to talk

Was it right to single out coal in the Glasgow Climate Pact? Well, all pathways to 1.5C in the IPCC special report include much more rapid cuts in coal use than for oil or gas carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-c…

Dear Arvind Kejriwal ,hv some mercy on hundreds of youth you have deployed at traffic signals of Delhi, holding a placard with your mugshot and switch off switch on msg. AQI is 500+ n making someone stand for hours amidst the traffic fumes is criminal. Just install the placards.

Please help and support. Please retweet also. Thank you. gofund.me/d4e05646

Finished Curfewed Night and halfway through The New Map.

To know more about the perceptions of different stakeholders towards #India’s low #carbon vision, read, “India’s Vision Towards a Net-Zero economy: Stakeholder Perspectives”. 🔗bit.ly/3pLA51K Ankur Malyan Pallavi Das Puneet Kamboj

How much Tax do you pay for ₹100 worth of Petrol? Upto half of it.

People may dislike "degrowth" but they can't easily ignore equity issues! Great interview on process of IPCC reports and the assumptions therein. rosalux.de/en/news/id/466…

📣In 2018, Ola set up an in-house think-tank, fully funded by the company. One it claimed would be fully independent. The Ola Mobility Institute was the brainchild of Anand Shah, Ola Electric's co-founder, a seasoned lobbyist and the chief organizer of Modi's events in US. (1/n)

New Publication - What will India’s transport energy use & associated CO2 emissions look like in a BAU scenario by 2050? Co-authors - Ankur Malyan Harsimran Kaur Vaibhav Chaturvedi Himani Jain For highlights, see the thread with cool storytelling graphics by poojil 👇

🚨New paper🚨 Let's face it: We are going to overshoot 1.5 C limit. Published today NatureClimate, we map out three ways to ratchet the temperature back down to 1.5 C ASAP. nature.com/articles/s4155… Led by Gokul Iyer and Yang Ou with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Center for Global Sustainability U.S. EPA 🧵to follow..

Just in time for #COP27 🚨new paper🚨 in Science Magazine with Peter Adams Thomas Deetjen Puneet Kamboj Swati Dsouza Rahul Tongia Ines M. Lima Azevedo on subnational implications of climate and air pollution policies in India’s electricity sector #energytwitter #climatetwitter doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

📢Calling all COP 27 attendees. #COP27 Our workshop with IsDB Group is taking place soon. Meet us at the IsDP pavilion, in the blue zone at 11 AM, or watch the session by clicking the photo below. Don't miss it. #KAPSARC

Great to see my ORF America colleague Shayak Sengupta and former colleagues at Centre for Social and Economic Progress Rahul Tongia Puneet Kamboj Swati Dsouza in Science Magazine: "facilitat[ing] decarbonization in India, must account for...subnational variability." #COP27 #DelhiPollution science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

What role #G20 nations can play in developing a governance of a future #hydrogen based society? From Yagyavalk Maranatha B Ferryal Puneet Kamboj Laras Wuri D. Jitendra Roy Choudhury and Syawaluddin Akbar or-f.org/125552

What role #G20 nations can play in developing a governance of a future #hydrogen based society? From Yagyavalk Maranatha B Ferryal Puneet Kamboj Laras Wuri D. Jitendra Roy Choudhury and Syawaluddin Akbar or-f.org/125552