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Experts warn of ‘respiratory health disaster’ as toxic air engulfs New DelhiHeavy smog triggers a surge in hospital admissions, school closures and a suspension of construction work in the Indian capital
How Solving Energy Poverty Will Boost Health and Climate GoalsEnergy Insights speaks with Sugandha Srivastav at Oxford University about energy poverty and developmental and energy economics.
How are energy contracts affecting the transition to net zero? - Economics ObservatoryAround the world, a large proportion of electricity is sold through power purchase agreements that may span decades. While these long-term contracts help to reduce risk, they can also lock countries into fossil fuels and hinder a rapid switch to renewable power, which is often cheaper.
Bringing Early-Stage Technologies to Market | FacultiSugandha Srivastav discusses whether the United Kingdom’s renewable energy feed-in-tariff (FiT), which is a risk-reduction and price instrument, helped bring utility-scale solar energy to market.
Building back after the viral attackInvestment in healthcare and sanitation, climate resilience, agriculture and weather forecasting should be at the core of India’s post-pandemic economic recovery
Making India’s post-Covid recovery green will help tackle growing environment challenges and generate jobsSugandha Srivastav and Brian O’Callaghan Like a phoenix that rises from the ashes, the Indian economy has a chance to reinvent itself after the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has worsened inequality by disproportionately affecting the...
India’s green energy paradox: With ambitious goals, why is the country still holding on to coal?With the rapidly falling cost of renewable energy technology, it no longer makes financial or environmental sense to invest in polluting sources.
How easy is it to pivot to clean innovation?The energy industry needs to transition to a low-carbon paradigm to stay consistent with net-zero targets. However, a high degree of carbon lock-in persists and developments such as hydraulic fract…
Futuremakers - S2 Ep5: What did the Paris Climate Agreement change?On the 12th December 2015, at the 21st COP in Paris, representatives of 196 states reached an agreement to combat climate change that was celebrated around the world. With the long-term goal of keeping global temperature to below two degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels, and covering areas such as nationally determined contributions and global stocktakes, Paris was heralded as a huge break-through. But four years on, and against the backdrop of the United States announcing its intention to withdraw from the agreement, what did the politicians at Paris actually achieve? Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with Fredi Otto, Acting Director of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute and a lead scientist on the World Weather Attribution project; Richard Millar, a Senior Analyst for the Committee on Climate Change, whose research spans the physical and economic consequences of climate policy; and Sugandha Srivastav, a researcher on the post carb…
Green technology: Can India win the race?Noxious air pollution, the collapse of natural food systems and extreme weather events have demonstrated the urgency to find cleaner forms of growth.
Using Litigation to Expedite the Clean Energy TransitionStretching over an expansive 80 square kilometres, the Hambach mine operated by RWE, one of the largest electricity producers in Germany, is a staggering sight. If there was ever a...
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