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SPECIAL SERIES | EPISODE 45

Path to Climate Justice in a Net Zero World | ft. Tejal Kanitkar & Rahul Tongia

16 May, 2023
Path to Climate Justice in a Net Zero World | ft. Tejal Kanitkar & Rahul Tongia
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For years, multiple Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have relied on integrated assessment models or IAM modelling pathways to achieve global net zero targets.

The IPCC reports and IAM pathways have become key drivers of government policy on keeping a lid on global warming in many countries.

However, scholars from Global South have argued that IAMs have failed to incorporate the principles of equity and rights of developing countries while charting decarbonisation pathways. For instance, questions have been raised about how it is fair to ask both the U.S. and India to achieve a net zero by 2050, given U.S. massive historical emissions.

To discuss the issue of lack of equity in net zero pathways, and ways for designing equitable models for climate action, we interviewed Dr. Tejal Kanitkar, Associate Professor at National Institute of Advanced Studies, and Dr. Rahul Tongia, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress. Both Tejal and Rahul are India’s leading scholars and thinkers on climate and energy policy and have decades of experience working in this area.

Full transcript of the episode is available here

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GUESTS

Sandeep Pai
He is an award-winning journalist and researcher and author of a book “Total Transition: The Human Side of the Renewable Energy Revolution.”
Shreya Jai
Shreya Jai is India's leading writer on the energy sector. A journalist for over 15 years, she is currently Energy Lead at Climate Trends.

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Manas Mishra
Manas Mishra
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