Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Garg, Amit"
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Energy system transitions and macroeconomic assessment of the Indian building sector
Vishwanathan, Saritha S.; Fragkos, Panagiotis; Fragkiadakis, Kostas; Paroussos, Leonidas; Garg, Amit (Taylor and Francis, 2018-10-03)India’s energy sector has grown rapidly in recent years with buildings playing a major role as they constitute about 40% of India’s final energy demand. This paper provides a quantitative model-based assessment of the ... -
Financial support vis-à-vis share of wind generation: is there an inflection point?
Gupta, Dipti; Das, Abhiman; Garg, Amit (Energy, 2019)Wind power is one of the leading source of renewable energy in terms of installed capacity, power generation and technology maturity in the world today. It is promoted through financial support such as Feed-In Tariffs ... -
Forest fires in India: regional and temporal analysis
Srivastava, P; Garg, Amit (Forest Research Institute Malaysia, 2013)Forest fire threatens the wealth and biodiversity of the forest. Studies suggest that 90% of vegetation fires in India may be man-made and, annually, about 3.73 mil ha of forest area are affected, leading to a loss of ... -
From climate change impacts to adaptation: A development perspective for India
Garg, Amit; Shukla, P. R.; Kapshe, M. (2007-11-02)India has good reasons to be concerned about climate change as it could adversely affect the achievement of vital national development goals related to socio-economic development, human welfare, health, energy availability ... -
Future GHG and local emissions for India: policy links and disjoints
Garg, Amit; Shukla, P. R.; Ghosh, D.; Kapshe, M.; Nair, R. (2003-10-22) -
Global climate change stabilization regimes and Indian emission scenarios: lessons for modeling of developing country transitions
Shukla, P. R.; Rana, Ashish; Garg, Amit; Kapshe, M.; Nair, R. (2006-11-01)The global climate change stabilization regime will have a bearing on future emission pathways of each nation. Corresponding to a combination of stabilization targets and a future global socioeconomic and technology ... -
Impact of current policies on future air quality and health outcomes in Delhi, India
Dholakia, Hem H.; Garg, Amit; Rao, Shilpa; Purohit, Pallav (Elsevier Ltd, 2013)A key policy challenge in Indian megacities is to curb high concentrations of PM2.5 and mitigate associated adverse health impacts. Using the Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies (GAINS) model we ... -
Impacts of changes in commercial non-coking coal grading system and other coal policies towards estimation of CO2 emission in Indian power sector
Garg, Amit; Sarkar, Pinaki; Patange, Omkar S.; Mukherjee, Ashish; Kumar, Manish; Singh, Pradeep K. (Taylor & Francis, 2021-02-02)In India, coal-based electricity is a leading cause for greenhouse gas emissions. However, many uncertainties prevail in the emissions estimation from coal-fired plants due to the dynamics of varying net calorific values ... -
Implications of land use transitions and climate change on local flooding in urban areas: an assessment of 42 Indian cities
Avashia, Vidhee; Garg, Amit (Land Use Policy, 2020-03-20)Urban development induced land transitions affect urban hydrology, resulting in increased flooding risks. Climate change-related precipitation changes are an added complexity to the flood risks of cities. This study examines ... -
India in 2°C and well below 2°C worlds: Opportunities and challenges
Vishwanathan, Saritha S.; Garg, Amit; Tiwari, Vineet; Shukla, P. R. (Taylor and Francis, 2018)India’s contributions to meeting global mean temperature increases of 2 C or well below 2 C would require transformational changes in its energy systems. A bottom-up model analyzes alternate futures (reference, intended ... -
India's non-CO2 GHG emissions: development pathways and mitigation flexibility
Shukla, P. R.; Garg, Amit; Kapshe, M.; Nair, R. (2006-11-01)This paper analyses the future trends (2000-2030) in Methane and Nitrous Oxide emissions across four scenarios that have been developed for India. The future state of Indian economy in the next 30-years has been broadly ... -
Indian methane and nitrous oxide emissions and mitigation flexibility
Garg, Amit; Shukla, P. R.; Kapshe, M.; Menon, D. (2004-10-22)Methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) contributed 27% and 7%, respectively, to India's CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2000, the remaining being the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Presently, agriculture ... -
Innovations in public administration in India
Gupta, Dipti; Pandey, Ashok Kumar; Garg, Amit (Economic & Political Weekly, 2019)Innovations in public service could be a core driver for ensuring that public administration becomes competitive, efficient, cost-effective and accountable to the citizenry. This state of innovation in India is analysed ... -
An integrated bottom-up optimization to investigate the role of BECCS in transitioning towards a net-zero energy system: a case study from Gujarat, India
Patange, Omkar S.; Garg, Amit; Jayaswal, Sachin (Elsevier, 2022-06-15)Bringing down energy system emissions to zero is a key step to restrict the global temperature rise to “well below 2 °C”. Recent studies have extensively discussed the integration of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage ... -
Integrated modelling system for energy and environment policies
Garg, Amit; Ghosh, D.; Shukla, P. R. (2001-10-15)Integrated modeling system offers advantages over a huge monolith model in addressing diverse issues in energy and environment modeling for a vast country like India. It utilizes the inherent strengths of strong individual ... -
Large Point Source (LPS) emissions from India: regional and sectoral analysis, atmospheric environment
Garg, Amit; Kapshe, M.; Shukla, P. R.; Ghosh, Diptesh (2001-10-18)Indian large point sources (LPS) contribute to CO2 andSO2 emissions to a large extent (above 65%) andto CH4, N2O andNOX emissions to some extent (around10%). The former emissions are primarily from fossil fuel combustion while ... -
Let the people speak: improving regional adaptation policy by combining adaptive capacity assessments with Vulnerability perceptions of farmers in Gujarat, India
Garg, Amit; Stock, Ryan; Brikenholtz, Trevor (Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-13)Farmers throughout the Global South are vulnerable to extreme heat events and shifting precipitation patterns associated with climate change. This is particularly the case in Gujarat, India, which is experiencing fluctuating ... -
Life cycle greenhouse gas emission assessment of major petroleum oil products for transport and household sectors in India
Garg, Amit; Vishwanathan, Saritha; Avashia, Vidhee (Elsevier Ltd, 2013-06-01)Energy security concerns due to high oil import dependence and climate change concerns due to related greenhouse gas emissions are important policy discussions in India. Could life cycle assessment (LCA) of petroleum oil ... -
A multi-model analysis of post-2020 mitigation efforts of five major economies
Gernaat, David E. H. J.; Ashina, Shuichi; Calvin, Katherine V.; Garg, Amit; Isaac, Morna; Lucas, Paul L.; Mouratiadou, Ioanna; Otto, Sander A. C.; Rao, Shilpa; Shukla, Priyadarshi R.; Van Vliet, Jasper; Van Vuuren, Detlef P. (World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2014)This paper looks into the regional mitigation strategies of five major economies (China, EU, India, Japan, and USA) in the context of the 2°C target, using a multi-model comparison. In order to stay in line with the 2°C ... -
Multigas emissions inventory of India: sectoral and regional trends
Garg, Amit; Shukla, P. R.; Kapshe, M. (2006-10-29)This paper provides the trends of greenhouse gas (GHG) and local air pollutant emissions of India for 1985–2005. The GHGs covered are six Kyoto gases, namely carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), ...