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Rapid infrastructure build-up is essential to sustain India’s high economic growth. But infrastructure development in India has traditionally been carbon intensive. India is, thus, faced with the challenge of building infrastructure in a low carbon way without compromising poverty alleviation and energy security. This could be achieved through carbon reduction, carbon switching, or carbon capture. India is in the early stages of infrastructure development, and so the choices now would determine the future. Widespread improvements in energy efficiency would increase competitiveness by reducing costs, while yielding the co-benefit of cutting carbon emissions. Switching to low carbon fuels in power generation or transportation improves the carbon productivity in these sectors, besides positively influencing ambient air quality. Renewable energy also has an important role in India’s poverty alleviation and rural development. Innovative carbon sequestration and mitigation initiatives could also improve rural productivity. Low carbon urbanization would be advanced by integrated land-use and transportation system planning. The opportunities are many and varied; some may not be immediately feasible but need to be planned for the future. Technology and finance are central to such low carbon interventions, which in turn require an enabling legal, regulatory and institutional framework.
This India Infrastructure Report (IIR) 2010, the ninth in the series of IIR, focuses on the development of infrastructure in a low carbon manner in India and discusses:
• Legal, regulatory, and policy initiatives • Financing low carbon infrastructure • Energy security and low carbon energy infrastructure • Transport infrastructure and low carbon mobility • Urban infrastructure and environmental initiatives in city planning • Rural infrastructure for a low carbon economy
ISBN - 9780198071457
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